GC072
Renewable Energy: Marine and Hydrokinetic

Session ID#: 157071

Session Description:
We will discuss the science, technology, and policy issues of marine-, wave-, current-, and tidal-energy conversion as renewable energy resources. Studies on environmental effects of marine hydrokinetic energy devices (e.g., acoustic and electromagnetic influences on aquatic and benthic species, altered hydrodynamics, water quality, and sediment transport, or changes to currents, wave regimes, and tidal ranges), ocean thermal energy conversion, environmental monitoring, device-performance evaluation, resource assessment, grid integration, characterization of potential energy, forecasting across multiple time scales, impacts of energy extraction, system planning, risk assessment, and uncertainty are all of interest. Studies in riverine environments are also appropriate. The field of renewable energy is growing rapidly and multi-disciplinary approaches are welcomed and encouraged. International and early career researchers are particularly invited to submit. This session is coordinated with the other two sessions on Renewable Energy: Wind and Solar.
Index Terms:

1635 Oceans [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1641 Sea level change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1655 Water cycles [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Primary Convener:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Alan F Blumberg, Jupiter, Hoboken, NJ, United States and Alicia R Karspeck, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Bulk estimation and characterisation of the Turbulent Kinetic Energy induced by the sea state, Method and Results. (1052800)
Clement Calvino1, Anne-claire Bennis1, Pascal Bailly du Bois2, Lucille Furgerot1 and Emmanuel Poizot2, (1)Université de Caen Normandie, Laboratoire de Morphodynamique Continentale et Côtière (M2C), Caen, France, (2)Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers (CNAM), INTECHMER, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, France
 
Development of a Framework for Laboratory Testing of Hydrokinetic Microturbines to Optimize Deployment in the Field. (1121073)
Juan Martin Andrade1, Pranjal Agrawal2, Jacob Braxton Drimer1, Michael P Duczynski3, Aaron C Petri3 and Rafael O Tinoco4, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Aerospace Engineering, Urbana, United States, (3)US Army Corps of Engineers, Champaign, United States, (4)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
 
Optimized Wave Resource Assessment and an Approach to Mitigate Wind and Wave Energy Variability: Based on the Climatology of Wind–Wave Interaction (1128602)
Xinyu Li1, Changlong Liu1 and Jinbao Song2, (1)Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, (2)Zhejiang University, Zhoushan, China
 
Characterizing Current Flow in the Straits of Mackinac Using Observations and Hydrodynamic Modeling and Application to Marine Energy (1194747)
Ana Dyreson, Michigan Technological University, Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Mechanics, Houghton, MI, United States, Rachel Falls, Michigan Technological University, Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Mechanics, Houghton, United States, Xinyu Ye, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, United States and John D Lenters, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States
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