CD44C:
Ocean Renewable Energy: Resource Characterization, Environmental Impacts, and Societal Interactions I Posters


Session ID#: 24443

Session Description:
The ocean represents a vast and largely untapped renewable energy resource that could be harnessed to support sustainable development while reducing carbon emissions. However, much research is required within the oceanographic community, in collaboration with other disciplines, to characterize ocean resources, and to assess the environmental impacts of ocean renewable energy systems. This session seeks contributions spanning a broad range of topics related to ocean renewable energy (offshore wind, wave, ocean current, tidal) research such as resource assessment, instrumentation, feedbacks between power extraction and the resource, and optimization at array or regional scales.

Contributions regarding potential environmental impacts (physical/biological), and societal interactions (e.g., social acceptance) are also invited. For instance, research methods, plans, and results from global investigations into field techniques, statistical modeling, and integrative mapping used to assess the impacts of offshore renewable energy system on presence, distribution, migration, dispersal, and/or abundance of marine species at local and regional scales. We also invite reports of research into the potential or existing effects such as the presence of artificial habitat, noise, electromagnetic field emission, and species barrier or displacement, at specific sites in the marine environment.

Primary Chair:  M Reza Hashemi, University of Rhode Island, Department of Ocean Engineering, Narragansett, RI, United States
Co-chairs:  James Henry Miller, University of Rhode Island, Department of Ocean Engineering, Narragansett, RI, United States, Simon P Neill, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom and Zhaoqing Yang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Moderators:  Simon P Neill, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom and James Henry Miller, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Crowmarsh Gifford, United Kingdom
Student Paper Review Liaison:  James Henry Miller, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Crowmarsh Gifford, United Kingdom
Index Terms:

4247 Marine meteorology [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4534 Hydrodynamic modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4560 Surface waves and tides [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • OM - Ocean Modeling
  • PS - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Development for High-Fidelity Numerical Simulation Capability for Ocean Renewable Energy Applications (308798)
Sida He, Pin Lyu, Zixuan Yang and Lian Shen, University of Minnesota, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Tidal current hydrodynamics under homogeneous stratified conditions using unstructured-grid modelling in Chacao channel, Chile. (308567)
Teresita Scheuch1, María Magdalena Barros Alcalde2, Cristian R Escauriaza1, Leandro Suarez3 and Christopher Michael Aiken2, (1)Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, (2)Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile, (3)MERIC, Santiago, Chile
The turbulent wake of ORCP RivGen Turbine (304505)
Maricarmen Andrea Guerra, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States and Jim Thomson, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Hydrokinetic potential from ocean currents and tecnology extracction in Cozumel Channel (312121)
Alejandro Jose Souza, CINVESTAV-IPN, Marine Resources, Merida, Mexico, Ismael Marino-Tapia, CINVESTAV-IPN, Rec. del Mar, MERIDA, Mexico and Rodolfo Silva, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Instituto de Ingeniería, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
Analysis of Hydrodynamic Impact Induced by a Tidal Turbine Arrays  (312777)
Cassidy Marie Gonzalez-Morabito, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, Kristen M Thyng, Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States and Simon Wolfgang Funke, Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway
Tidal energy extraction in three-dimensional ocean models (317001)
Alice GowardBrown1, Simon P Neill2, Matt James Lewis3 and Peter E Robins3, (1)Bangor University, Menai Bridge, United Kingdom, (2)Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom, (3)Bangor University, Bangor, LL59, United Kingdom
Hydrodynamics of Raz Blanchard: HF Radar Measurements (318137)
Guiomar Lopez1, Anne-Claire Bennis1, Yves Barbin2, Laurent Benoit1, Rémi Cambra3, Daniel C Conley4, Thomas Helzel5, Jean-Louis Lagarde1, Louis Marie6, Laurent Perez1, Sebastien Smet7 and Lucy Wyatt8, (1)University of Caen, Laboratoire de Morphodynamique Continentale et Côtière (M2C), Caen, France, (2)Institut Méditerranéen d’Océanologie (MIO), CNRS-IRD-Université Toulon-Université Aix-Marseille, Toulon, France, (3)France Energies Marines, Plouzane, France, (4)Plymouth University, School of Biological and Marine Sciences, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (5)Helzel Messtechnik GmbH, Kaltenkirchen, Germany, (6)IFREMER, Laboratoire d'Oceanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), Brest, France, (7)Actimar, Brest, France, (8)University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Environmental and Harvestable Wave and Tidal Energy in the Western Pacific (314627)
Jennifer Ayers, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific, San Diego, CA, United States
Some modelled characteristics of tidal turbulence in medium depth water (320962)
Göran Broström1, Sam Fredriksson1 and Håkan Nilsson2, (1)University of Gothenburg, Department of Marine Sciences, Gothenburg, Sweden, (2)Chalmers University of Technology, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Gothenburg, Sweden
CHARACTERIZING THE SOUNDSCAPE OF THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE GULF STREAM OFF THE COAST OF CAPE HATTERAS, NC (318971)
Stephen Lockhart, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Lindsay L Dubbs, UNC Coastal Studies Institute, Wanchese, NC, United States
Numerical modelling of tidal vorticity in Chacao Channel, Chile (319670)
Leandro Suarez, MERIC, Santiago, Chile and Cristian R Escauriaza, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
A 2-way nested ROMS model of the Minas Passage for Tidal Energy Studies (320138)
Boma Kresning1, M Reza Hashemi1, Simon P Neill2 and Huijie Xue3, (1)University of Rhode Island, Department of Ocean Engineering, Narragansett, RI, United States, (2)Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom, (3)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States
Assessment of the Tidal Energy at a Demonstration Site: Cape Cod Canal Massachusetts (322418)
Soroush Kouhi1, Chris Small1, M Reza Hashemi1, John Miller2 and Sandra Deeb1, (1)University of Rhode Island, Department of Ocean Engineering, Narragansett, RI, United States, (2)Marine Renewable Energy Collaboration of New England, MA, United States
High-resolution Tidal Energy Resource Characterization in Sequim Bay, WA to Support Tidal Energy Device Testing (324831)
Taiping Wang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Zhaoqing Yang, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Coastal Division, Seattle, WA, United States and Genevra Harker-Klimes, Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, Seattle, WA, United States
Wave-Current-Turbulence Interactions in a High-Flow Tidal Channel (311977)
Colleen Wilson and Alex E Hay, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
BOEM’S RODEO Program Overview (319022)
Anwar A Khan1, James Elliott2 and Dennis Gallien2, (1)HDR, Inc., Athens, AL, United States, (2)HDR EOC, Inc., Athens, AL, United States
A techno-economic analysis of wave energy conversion for the United States Pacific coast (303385)
Grace Chang1, Craig Alexander Jones1 and Jesse Roberts2, (1)Integral Consulting Inc., Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albequerque, NM, United States
Analysis of extreme sea state events in the central coast of Chile: origin, characterization, and potential impacts in future marine renewable energy developments. (308947)
Felipe Lucero, MERIC - Marine Energy Research & Innovation Center, Santiago, Chile and Rodrigo Cienfuegos, Escuela de Ingeniería, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile; Centro Nacional para la Gestion Integrada de Desastres Naturales, CIGIDEN, Santiago, Chile
Block Island Wind Farm Benthic Monitoring (306977)
Monique LaFrance Bartley1, John W King1, Chris Roman1, Paul English2, Anwar A Khan3 and James Elliott4, (1)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States, (2)Fugro GB Marine Limited, Portsmouth, United Kingdom, (3)HDR, Inc., Athens, AL, United States, (4)HDR EOC, Inc., Athens, AL, United States

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