Recent events
Coastal Community Perspectives on Offshore Wind: A Discussion of Emerging Themes (1/14/26)
Join the OSU and Schatz Center teams on Wednesday, January 14, from 5:30–7:30 PM at the Wharfinger Building in Eureka for an in-person presentation and discussion of interim findings from the Oregon State University-led study on offshore wind (OSW) development and community benefits agreements. Presenters will include Julia Bingham of Oregon State, and Tanner Etherton and Lauren Hart of the Schatz Center. This talk will share preliminary data from Humboldt area surveys and local interviews, and provide insights into other communities surveyed as part of the project.
- This event is free and open to the public; pizza and drinks will be provided while supplies last! Please note that the discussion will not be filmed or live streamed, although a summary of findings will be available in mid-2026. For questions or accessibility requests, contact schatzenergy@humboldt.edu or call 707-826-4345.
- Learn more here.
Recordings
Schatz Center Research & POWC webinars
California offshore wind
- Offshore Wind Jobs: Preparing Northern California Tribes and Local Communities: video recording and Slide deck 1, 2, and 3 (November 2025)
- Permitting for Offshore Wind Port Infrastructure Projects: video recording and slide deck (July 2025)
- Offshore Grid Connection: Cable Laying and Monitoring: video recording and slide deck 1 and 2 (May 2025)
- West Coast Perspectives on Ocean Renewable Energy: video recording and slide deck (February 2025)
- Offshore wind and Transmission Infrastructure in Northwestern CA: video recording and slide deck (March 2024)
- Transmission Alternatives (May 2022)
- Energy Production and Delivery, and Economic Development (September 2020)
- Ecological and Geological Environment (September 2020)
- Port and Coastal Infrastructure (September 2020)
- Community Perspectives on Regional Impacts and Opportunities (October 2020)
- Reflections and Next Steps
(October 2020)
Microgrids and resiliency
- Redwood Coast Airport Microgrid Grand Opening Celebration (June 2022)
- Local Governments Leading the Way through Resilient Microgrids (Statewide Energy Efficient Collaborative, September 2020)
- Redwood Coast Airport Microgrid: Advancing a resilient and clean energy future (Clean Coalition, September 2020)
- Innovations of the Redwood Coast Airport microgrid (Cal CCA, April 2020)
Off-grid energy access
- IEC quality standards for pico-solar products & SHS kits (VeraSol, May 2020)
Sustainable Futures
- Preparing frontline communities for climate disruption: Lessons from community-embedded research – Gabrielle Wong-Parodi (November 2, 2022)
- Children’s fundamental rights and the climate crisis: the call for judicial branch engagement – Andrea Rodgers (April 28, 2022)
- What can we still do? – Bill McKibben (October 7, 2021)
- Building a net zero energy system that protects biodiversity – Grace Wu (September 23, 2021)
- Cántaro Azul: An organization’s journey to contribute to the human right to water and sanitation in rural Mexico – Fermín Reygadas (March 18, 2021)
- Energy transitions in a time of intersecting precarities: from reductive environmentalism to antiracist praxis – Myles Lennon (October 29, 2020)
- Redwood Coast telecommunications resilience – Karen Eckersley and Jana Ganion (October 22, 2020)
- Safer breathing: reducing the risk of airborne COVID 19 infection – Mark Nicas (September 3, 2020)
- Thwaites Glacier Research: On board the Nathaniel B Palmer -Julia Wellner, Al Hickey, and Tim McGovern (July 29, 2020)
Additional Sustainable Futures recordings are available here…
