Fig. 1
Top panel: study site and deployment locations at three pupping colonies and one haul-out location (Shinnecock Bay) along the United States northeast coast. Important submarine landforms in the study region are labeled in italics (e.g., Georges Bank, Nantucket Shoals). Current offshore wind lease areas are indicated with light blue polygons and proposed export cable routes are shown in dark teal. Bottom panel) State-space modeled tracks of young-of-year grey seals colored by deployment location Offshore wind lease areas and export cable data were obtained from the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management spatial data portal (accessed 2025-01-01): https://boem-metaport-boem.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/BOEM::offshore-wind-lease-outlines/about; https://boem-metaport-boem.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/BOEM::offshore-wind-export-cable-corridors-proposed/about