UPDATE (8/31): Registration for all sessions is now open This fall, our team is hosting a series of five webinar workshops on the feasibility of offshore wind energy development on California’s north coast. In each...
Category - Offshore wind
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Seabird distribution in 3D: assessing risk from offshore wind energy generation
Seabird species may be at risk for collision with, or displacement by, offshore wind turbines. Existing seabird distribution models describe the density and species composition in the California Current, and are used to...
North Coast Offshore Wind Workshop – postponed
UPDATE 3/17/20 The North Coast Offshore Wind Workshop scheduled for April 28 has been postponed. Our team is investigating options for sharing our initial findings, while maintaining clarity, accessibility, and...
October on the Coral Sea
Last month, Mark Severy joined the crew of the R.V. Coral Sea for a research cruise from Humboldt Bay out past the continental shelf. The Coral Sea is Humboldt State’s marine research and teaching vessel, and...
Maia Cheli
Offshore wind: recent presentations & project updates
The Schatz Center’s offshore wind research team presented at two events held earlier this month in San Francisco: the Pacific Rim Offshore Wind conference and the California Energy Commission’s (CEC) IEPR Commissioner...
Offshore wind feasibility study 3
The Schatz Center was recently awarded $150,000 from the CA Governor’s Office of Planning & Research to address three elements associated with offshore wind feasibility. Existing research in each of these areas is...
Offshore wind feasibility study 2
As capital costs for offshore wind rapidly decrease and floating platform technologies come online, the northern coast of California is emerging as a promising site for the first offshore wind farm in the eastern...
A public session on offshore wind and California fisheries and wildlife (5/3)
On Friday, May 3, experts from natural resource and energy agencies, the wind industry, and fisheries and environmental groups will gather in Eureka to discuss how fisheries and wildlife might coexist with offshore wind...
Lecture: California offshore wind – the challenges of “high road” climate policy (4/11)
5:30 pm Thursday, April 11 in Founders Hall 118 Planning is underway to site huge floating wind farms along California’s coast, including offshore Humboldt County, to help the state reach its goals of 100 percent...
New California offshore wind report from the American Jobs Project
The American Jobs Project released a report today on California’s developing offshore wind energy sector. The Schatz Center’s offshore wind team provided technical review comments on a pre-publication draft...
Northern CA coast offshore wind feasibility study
On October 25, the Schatz Energy Research Center at Humboldt State University was awarded a grant from the California Ocean Protection Council (a division of the California Department of Natural Resources), to study the...
Mark Severy
Student research developments: summer 2018
This summer, thirteen students contributed to Schatz Center research projects in smart grids, bioenergy, wind, and off-grid energy access. SMART GRIDS Craig Mitchell provided construction observation at the Solar+...
