REGISTER HERE Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 1:00 – 3:00 pm Join us for a discussion of current workforce development efforts to prepare Northern California Tribes and local communities for jobs in the offshore wind and...
Category - Offshore wind
Schatz Center
New report and upcoming lecture: Power Behind the Redwood Curtain
Save the date! Join us on Wednesday, October 29 from 5:30-7:00 pm in BSS 166 (next to the Native American Forum at Cal Poly Humboldt), for a presentation and discussion of this research. The event is free and open to...
Job opening: student research assistantship in offshore wind policy
Updated Tuesday, August 19. Please see compensation section. Applications due by Monday, September 8, 2025, at 8 am (Pacific) Download the full job announcement The Schatz Energy Research Center has an opening for an...
Job opening: student research assistantship in secondary entanglement
Updated Tuesday, August 19. Please see compensation section. Applications due by Monday, September 8, 2025, at 8 am (Pacific) Download the full job announcement The Schatz Energy Research Center has an opening for an...
Webinar: permitting for offshore wind port infrastructure projects- July 10 @ 2:30pm
UPDATE: 7/16/25 Webinar recording Slide deck REGISTER HERE Thursday, July 10, from 2:30-4:30 pm (PST) For offshore wind energy projects to be developed in California, specialized port facilities—known as “staging...
New Permitting Report for California Offshore Wind Port Development
Our new report, Permitting for Port Infrastructure to Support Offshore Wind in California, identifies the numerous permitting and planning processes required to build port infrastructure that is necessary for offshore...
Final report: Evaluating seabird collision vulnerability to offshore wind development
In 2020, our team began a collaboration with H. T. Harvey & Associates to understand seabird vulnerability to offshore wind within the marine waters off Southern California to Central Oregon. H. T. Harvey &...
New Labor Report for California Floating Offshore Wind
Our new report, California Floating Offshore Wind: Evaluating Workforce Analyses and Assessing Professional Labor Needs, offers new insights into the professional workforce that will be needed in order to deploy...
Offshore Grid Connection: Cable Laying and Monitoring (webinar)–May 12 @ 2 pm
REGISTER HERE Monday, May 12, from 2-4 pm (PST) PacWave is a state-of-the-art, pre-permitted, grid-connected, wave energy test facility that is being developed in partnership with the US Department of Energy, the...
West Coast Perspectives on Ocean Renewable Energy
REGISTER HERE What factors influence people’s different responses to proposed offshore wind and wave energy developments – and what might the implications for future siting and permitting processes be? In...
Tuesday, September 24 @ 1 pm (webinar) — Seabirds in 3D: A Framework to Evaluate Collision Vulnerability with Future Offshore Wind Developments
REGISTER HERE Tuesday, Sept 24 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm (Pacific) Presented by: Eli Wallach and Arne Jacobson of the Schatz Center, and Stephanie Schneider and Sharon Kramer of H. T. Harvey & Associates. Expert...
Introducing the Pacific Offshore Wind Consortium…
A new West Coast collaboration for offshore wind science was announced in Sacramento today. The Pacific Offshore Wind Consortium (POWC) is a joint effort between three research centers: the Schatz Energy Research Center...
