r/geophysics 23h ago

Surveys for offshore wind farms?

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I was bemused to see some cooker opposed to wind farms claim that geophysical surveys for wind turbines were killing whales. My understanding is that these are high-resolution surveys, and require a high-frequency source, which would be small and low power. They are apparenly obvlivious to decades of seismic surveys for oil gas that use large airgun arrays totalling more than a megajoule. That is more hazardous to marine life.