Marine Energy Engineering and Resource Assessment
Marine Energy Resources Research Theme
The Hebridean Marine Energy Futures project aims to accelerate near and offshore renewable energy developments in the Outer Hebrides and wider Scotland.
A versatile group of scientists and engineers investigates questions around wave energy resource assessments, data acquisition, sensor deployment and wave forecasting in an area with one of the most energetic waters of Europe. Additional wave energy research activities at Lews Castle College are focussed on the electrical grid integration and interaction between wind and wave energy converters, and also on the mapping of both environmental constraints and opportunities in relation to energy developments
Arne Vögler - Group Leader Marine Energy Research, Project Manager 'Hebridean Marine Energy Futures', Data Acquisition and Sensor deployment
Dr Neil Finlayson - Principal Investigator 'Hebridean Marine Energy Futures'
Dr David Christie - Lead Hydrodynamicist and Wave modeller
James Morrison - Data Analyst and IT Engineer Software/Hardware
Malcolm Lidster - Mechanical Engineering Research and Design
Helen Smith - Physicist and Project Support
Charles Greenwood - PhD student "The impact of large scale wave energy converter farms on the regional wave climate"
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