BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:EventsCalendar PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T053451Z TZURL:https://www.tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:College of Arts and Sciences,College of Engineering,Graduate Stu dies,Lectures and Seminars,SMAST,STEM,Thesis/Dissertations DESCRIPTION:Department of Fisheries Oceanography MS Thesis Defense"Sink or Source? The attraction versus production theory at an offshore wind farm u sing black sea bass as a case study"By: Andie Painten AdvisorDr. Kevin Sto kesbury (UMass Dartmouth) Committee MembersDr. Geoffrey Cowles (UMass Dart mouth), Dr. Sam Truesdell (NOAA) Friday May 8, 202610:00 AMSMAST East 101- 103836 S. Rodney French Blvd, New Bedfordand via Zoom Abstract: Offshore w ind farms introduce complex habitat into historically sandy areas, potenti ally attracting structure-seeking species. This habitat may provide favora ble conditions for food and shelter to support complete life cycles, poten tially increasing local abundance or establishing new populations. This pr oject evaluated the suitability of the Vineyard Wind 1 development area fo r each life-history stage of black sea bass (Centropristis striata) using data from a suite of fisheries monitoring surveys and available life histo ry literature. Spatial and temporal trends in distribution, derived from c atch-per-unit-effort (CPUE) estimates for larval, juvenile, and adult blac k sea bass, revealed an absence of larvae and only a transient presence of juveniles and adults. Analyses of diet, sex, and maturity were consistent with existing literature, including feeding patterns and lack of spawning in the study area. Results further suggest that the introduction of compl ex habitat will provide suitable spawning habitat and increased available food sources; these strong attractants may result in the increased occurre nce of black sea bass to turbines. If turbines are used as spawning habita t this may alter larval dispersal. Larval distribution may also be affecte d by changing hydrodynamic conditions in the windfarm area. This research constitutes the baseline information required to determine if windfarms wi ll act as a population sink (attracting but not producing new black sea ba ss populations) or source (completing the life cycle in a new area resulti ng in population expansion). Join Meetinghttps://umassd.zoom.us/j/98953871 07Note: Meeting ID and passcode required, please email contact to obtain. For additional information, please contact Callie Rumbut at c.rumbut@umass d.edu\nEvent page: https://www.umassd.edu/events/cms/dfo-ms-thesis-defense -sink-or-source-by-andie-painten.php\nEvent link: https://umassd.zoom.us/j /9895387107 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Department of Fisheries Oceanog raphy

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MS Thesis Defense
"Sink or Source? The attraction versu s production theory at an offshore wind farm using black sea bass as a cas e study"
By: Andie Painten

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Advisor
Dr. Kevin Stokesbury (UMass Dartmouth)

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Committee Members
Dr. Geoffrey Cowles (UMas s Dartmouth)\, Dr. Sam Truesdell (NOAA)

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Friday May 8\, 2026
1 0:00 AM
SMAST East 101-103
836 S. Rodney French Blvd\, New Bedfo rd
and via Zoom

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Abstract:

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Offshore wind farms introdu ce complex habitat into historically sandy areas\, potentially attracting structure-seeking species. This habitat may provide favorable conditions f or food and shelter to support complete life cycles\, potentially increasi ng local abundance or establishing new populations. This project evaluated the suitability of the Vineyard Wind 1 development area for each life-his tory stage of black sea bass (Centropristis striata) using data from a sui te of fisheries monitoring surveys and available life history literature. Spatial and temporal trends in distribution\, derived from catch-per-unit- effort (CPUE) estimates for larval\, juvenile\, and adult black sea bass\, revealed an absence of larvae and only a transient presence of juveniles and adults. Analyses of diet\, sex\, and maturity were consistent with exi sting literature\, including feeding patterns and lack of spawning in the study area. Results further suggest that the introduction of complex habit at will provide suitable spawning habitat and increased available food sou rces\; these strong attractants may result in the increased occurrence of black sea bass to turbines. If turbines are used as spawning habitat this may alter larval dispersal. Larval distribution may also be affected by ch anging hydrodynamic conditions in the windfarm area. This research constit utes the baseline information required to determine if windfarms will act as a population sink (attracting but not producing new black sea bass popu lations) or source (completing the life cycle in a new area resulting in p opulation expansion).

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Join Meeting
https://umassd.zoom.us/j/9895387107
Note: Mee ting ID and passcode required\, please email contact to obtain.

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Fo r additional information\, please contact Callie Rumbut at c.rumbut@umassd .edu

Event page: https://www.umassd.edu/ events/cms/dfo-ms-thesis-defense-sink-or-source-by-andie-painten.phpEvent link: https://umassd .zoom.us/j/9895387107

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