Rhode Island’s offshore wind turbines are attracting Jonah crabs, raising a bigger question about whether they are creating new marine habitat |
Far below the surface off the coast of Rhode Island, the bases of offshore wind turbines are becoming something more than supports for machines. Their hard foundations are providing places for marine organisms to settle, creating patches of habitat on an otherwise softer seafloor. Barnacles, mussels, algae and other small creatures can attach themselves to…
