Power for Ocean CDR Monitoring (and ocean observation in general)

[B. Jack Pan]

I thought this event might be of interest to our community. As you know, one of the important tasks in ocean CDR is monitoring. However, big-data monitoring capabilities in the ocean are significantly limited by the power supply. This workshop aims to create more dialogues between marine energy developer and oceanographers to enable big data in ocean observation.

This event is also in support of the US Dept. of Energy's Powering the Blue Economy Initiative.

Please RSVP and share it with anyone who might be interested. Thanks!

https://umerc-us.org/events/22626

We also strongly encourage the this community to join the University Marine Energy Research Community (UMERC) network for more updates and future opportunities (free to join). Please click on "Join the Community" in the top right corner to sign up. UMERC is a DOE-sponsored program that aims to facilitate more cross-disciplinary projects between marine energy and ocean science (and other sectors).

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Thanks so much for your time!

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Event Description

Constraints on power supply pose a significant challenge in enabling cost-effective big data in the ocean. Leveraging ocean energy solutions could alleviate some of these constraints. How can we leverage small-scale applications of marine energy to meet the needs of ocean observation? This is one of the challenges that the US Dept. of Energy proposes under their "Powering the Blue Economy" Initiative.

UMERC has identified a knowledge gap between marine energy developers and potential end users in this field: there have not been many dialogues between energy developers and oceanographers / instrument engineers. Because small-scale ocean energy is an emerging sector, creating space for this dialogue will ensure it grows according to real ocean observation needs.

During this workshop, marine energy developers will update oceanographers on new power technology development and discuss how they can support big data in the ocean. Oceanographers / instrument engineers will explain common instrument power requirements and form factors to the marine hydrokinetic energy (MHK) developers. We hope this workshop will be a first step in a series of conversations between the two communities.