Hypothetical power dissipation by a tidal in‐stream energy conversion device was calculated for Admiralty Inlet, Washington, a highly energetic entrance channel to Puget Sound and currently a candidate for tidal energy development. Power dissipation was calculated for a device of a given capacity as a function of hub height above...
Reference Model #1 is a tidal turbine operating in a narrow, tidal channel. The site is a generalized version of Tacoma Narrows, Puget Sound, Washington. The resource is a mixed, mainly semidiurnal tidal regime with two ebbs and floods each day of unequal strength (i.e., a diurnal inequality in which...
The Review Panel was chaired by Susan Capalbo (OSU). Members included Jack Barth (OSU), Sally Hacker (OSU), Jo-Ann Leong (Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology), Jim Sanders (Skidaway Institute of Oceaongraphy) and John Stein (NOAA Fisheries). The charge to the Panel was to “determine how [the OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center...
Geo-Marine, Inc. (GMI) conducted an offshore avian radar baseline study for Oregon Wave Energy Trust (OWET) for a wave energy study located northwest of Reedsport, Oregon from 25 August through 29 October 2010. The study was conducted from shore with GMI’s Mobile Avian Radar System (MARS®). The MARS® was equipped...
This report was prepared under guidance from Gilbert Sylvia, Ph.D. Dr. Sylvia is president of SylDon Inc. located in Newport, Oregon and also Superintendent of the Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station, Oregon State University. Shannon Davis (President of The Research Group, Corvallis, Oregon) assisted Dr. Sylvia. The project was sponsored...
The fundamental aim of the Oregon Wave Energy Trust’s (OWET’s) cumulative effects framework is to provide an enduring set of information, presented in an effective way to inform substantial decisions about the future and ongoing management of wave energy developments in the context of the existing and future situation. At...
There are many reasons for building an alliance among agencies and citizens in forest and rangeland communities. In the big picture, the purpose is primarily to reach decisions that are objectively better. Essentially, the quality of decisions is improved by a multi-agency effort that includes a role for citizens and...