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As part of UD's Center for Carbon-free Power Integration, we conduct research and teaching on offshore wind power. We are interdisciplinary, with a primary administrative home in the College of Marine and Earth Studies. There are three primary faculty working on offshore wind, along with an additional half dozen faculty with interest and relevant expertise (e.g. continental shelf geology, ocean engineering, economics, air-sea interaction, marine biology, etc), and a dozen graduate students working in related topics. In addition to the focus of this site on offshore wind activities in the College of Marine and Earch Studies, we link to faculty working in aerodunamics, fluid mechanics, mechanical engineering and composite structures. This site describes our research, teaching, and public testimony, gives an introduction to some offshore wind concepts and tools, and describes the planned Delaware offshore wind project.

Events and News

The first offshore wind industry conference in the Americas was in Delaware, organized with the support of the University of Delaware: AWEA Offshore Wind Workshop, Sept 9-10, 2008.

An article in the New York Times Magazine, Delaware Offshore Wind-power Politics, describes a UD student paper--by Dhanju, Whitaker and Burton, with contributions by Tollman and Jarvis--that launched the $1.6 billion offshore wind project. From the article: "The moment I read that paper," the wind entrepreneur Peter Mandelstam recalled, "I knew in my gut where my next wind project would be." For our courses and some exceptional graduate student work, click on Graduate Seminars and Current UD Theses; you can also go directly to the Dhanju et al paper. (Yes, they got an "A" on the paper, long before we dreamed any of this would follow.)