HI52A:
Marine Renewable Energy: Resource Characterization, Environmental Impacts, and Societal Interactions II


Session ID#: 11385

Session Description:
The ocean represents a vast and largely untapped energy resource, which could be exploited as a form of low carbon electricity generation, and there is much research within the oceanographic community into resource characterization and environmental impacts. We seek contributions spanning a broad range of topics related to marine renewable energy, including wind, wave, ocean current and tidal resource assessment (and wave-tide interactions) over timescales ranging from semi-diurnal to decadal, and feedbacks between electricity generation and the resource at both device and array scale. This session is designed to gather and relate research methods, plans, and results from global investigations into field techniques, statistical modeling, and integrative mapping used to assess the presence, distribution, migration, dispersal, and/or abundance of species (seabirds, marine mammals, fish, sea turtles, and decapod crustacean) most likely affected by offshore renewable energy. The session will also include studies of physical impacts (e.g. impacts on sedimentary systems), and societal interactions. We also invite reports of research into potential or existing effects due to novel aspects of offshore renewable energy structures, such as the presence of artificial habitat, noise, electromagnetic field emission, and species barrier or displacement, as well as observational or modeling methodologies.
Primary Chair:  Simon P Neill, Bangor University, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor, LL59, United Kingdom
Chairs:  Zhaoqing Yang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, M Reza Hashemi, University of Rhode Island, Department of Ocean Engineering, Narragansett, RI, United States and Ann Scarborough Bull, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Department of the Interior, Camarillo, CA, United States
Moderators:  Simon P Neill, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom, Zhaoqing Yang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, M Reza Hashemi, University of Rhode Island, Department of Ocean Engineering, Narragansett, RI, United States and Matt James Lewis, Bangor University, Bangor, LL59, United Kingdom
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Matt James Lewis, Bangor University, Bangor, LL59, United Kingdom
Index Terms:

4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4534 Hydrodynamic modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4558 Sediment transport [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4560 Surface waves and tides [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • EC - Estuarine and Coastal
  • IS - Instrumentation & Sensing Technologies
  • ME - Marine Ecosystems
  • PO - Physical Oceanography/Ocean Circulation

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

HI52A-01
Wave Resource Characterization at US Wave Energy Converter (WEC) Test Sites (91651)
Ann Dallman and Vincent S Neary, Sandia National Laboratories, Water Power Technologies, Albuquerque, NM, United States
HI52A-02
A 20-Year High-Resolution Wave Resource Assessment of Japan with Wave-Current Interactions (89339)
Adrean Webb, Takuji Waseda and Keiji Kiyomatsu, The University of Tokyo, Department of Ocean Technology, Policy, and Environment, Kashiwa, Japan
HI52A-03
Wave Power Assessment in the Presence of Currents: an Overview of Analytical Versus Complex Numerical Approaches (88787)
M Reza Hashemi, University of Rhode Island, Department of Ocean Engineering, Narragansett, RI, United States, Stephan T Grilli, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States and Simon P Neill, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom
HI52A-04
Complete energetic description of hydrokinetic turbine impact on flow channel dynamics (90276)
Elizabeth Brasseale, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States and Mitsuhiro Kawase, Univ Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
HI52A-05
Ambient and Wake Turbulence Measurements at Marine Energy Sites from a Five Beam AD2CP (88864)
Maricarmen Andrea Guerra, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and James M Thomson, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
HI52A-06
Temporal, Spatial, Statistical Distribution of the Rate of Dissipation of TKE in Islay Sound (92244)
Fabian Wolk1, Rolf G Lueck1 and Kevin Black2, (1)Rockland Scientific Inc, Victoria, BC, Canada, (2)Partrac Ltd., Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
HI52A-07
Assessment of the Great Lakes Marine Renewable Energy Resources: Characterizing Lake Erie Surge, Seiche and Waves (92157)
Ali Farhadzadeh, Stony Brook University, Civil Engineering and School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States and M Reza Hashemi, University of Rhode Island, Department of Ocean Engineering, Narragansett, RI, United States
HI52A-08
Global tidal phasing potential (87969)
Simon P Neill1, Matt M Cooper1 and Matt James Lewis2, (1)Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom, (2)Bangor University, Bangor, LL59, United Kingdom
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