Department of Fisheries Oceanography Weekly Graduate Seminar - Dr. Dan Kuchma
When: Wednesday,
January 18, 2023
2:30 PM
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3:30 PM
Where: > See description for location
Description: The School for Marine Science and Technology
Department of Fisheries Oceanography
Weekly Graduate Seminar
“Nature-Inclusive Offshore Wind Farms and the Need for a Transdisciplinary and Community-Driven Approach”
Presented by:
Dr. Dan Kuchma
Tufts University
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
SMAST East, Rooms 101/102
836 S. Rodney French Blvd, New Bedford
Abstract:
Our region is at the cusp of developing 30GW of offshore wind energy farms over the next 10 years at a cost of approximately $120B. While significant, this will only provide a modest contribution to addressing the climate crisis. There are doubts that we will even be able to develop this 30 GW because of conflicts in the shared use of the oceans. If we could design offshore wind farms to strength the marine-ecosystem and provide significant benefits to communities that earn their livelihoods from the oceans, then many conflicts are resolved and thereby offshore wind could contribute much more to addressing the climate crises while also being a large source of new and equitable employment opportunities. This presentation will explore what is needed to enable predicably-reliable nature-inclusive design and operation of offshore wind energy farms.
Bio:
Dan Kuchma has been a professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University since 2014, and before that he was a professor at the University of Illinois for 17 years. His research, teaching, and professional service have been in Offshore Marine Structures, Earthquake Engineering, Bridge Design and Analysis, Building Codes-of-Practice, and the Design and Mechanics of Structural Concrete. His work over the past decade has focused on Offshore Wind Energy structures and systems, and he has conducted several projects funded the U.S. Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management, the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center in this area.
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Department of Fisheries Oceanography
Weekly Graduate Seminar
“Nature-Inclusive Offshore Wind Farms and the Need for a Transdisciplinary and Community-Driven Approach”
Presented by:
Dr. Dan Kuchma
Tufts University
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
SMAST East, Rooms 101/102
836 S. Rodney French Blvd, New Bedford
Abstract:
Our region is at the cusp of developing 30GW of offshore wind energy farms over the next 10 years at a cost of approximately $120B. While significant, this will only provide a modest contribution to addressing the climate crisis. There are doubts that we will even be able to develop this 30 GW because of conflicts in the shared use of the oceans. If we could design offshore wind farms to strength the marine-ecosystem and provide significant benefits to communities that earn their livelihoods from the oceans, then many conflicts are resolved and thereby offshore wind could contribute much more to addressing the climate crises while also being a large source of new and equitable employment opportunities. This presentation will explore what is needed to enable predicably-reliable nature-inclusive design and operation of offshore wind energy farms.
Bio:
Dan Kuchma has been a professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University since 2014, and before that he was a professor at the University of Illinois for 17 years. His research, teaching, and professional service have been in Offshore Marine Structures, Earthquake Engineering, Bridge Design and Analysis, Building Codes-of-Practice, and the Design and Mechanics of Structural Concrete. His work over the past decade has focused on Offshore Wind Energy structures and systems, and he has conducted several projects funded the U.S. Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management, the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center in this area.
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Zoom Link
https://umassd.zoom.us/j/93758230260?pwd=OHJ5UDloQkZZaCtXcTlBNlR6Qm0rQT09
Meeting ID: 937 5823 0260
Passcode: 426839
One tap mobile
+13017158592,,93758230260#,,,,*426839# US (Washington DC)
+13126266799,,93758230260#,,,,*426839# US (Chicago)
Dial by your location
+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)
+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)
+1 646 876 9923 US (New York)
+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)
+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)
+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
Find your local number: https://umassd.zoom.us/u/acosTPRs4V
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For additional information, please contact Sue Silva at s1silva@umasd.edu
Contact: > See Description for contact information
Topical Areas: SMAST Seminar Series, School for Marine Sciences and Technology