OSES2024
NEW BEDFORD, MA

JULY 10-12

Join Us in Historic New Bedford for the 8th Offshore Energy and Storage Symposium.

The Growing OSES Family Gathers Again.

The 8th Offshore Energy & Storage Symposium will take place from July 10 - July 12, Summer 2024 in New Bedford, Massachusetts on America's East Coast. This event brings together researchers, industry players and policy makers dedicated to driving the development and growth of offshore renewables and energy storage. This event follows a number of successful events held in Windsor, Canada; Edinburgh, Scotland; Valetta, Malta; Cape Cod, USA; Ningbo, China; Brest, France, and St. Julian's, Malta.

Bold Minds. Brave Hearts.

Our 2024 World demands courage. The time for indecision and uninformed banter has run out. The connections between people, energy, and our environment has never been more clear. Global conflicts and socioeconomic divides have further compounded the strain on our critical environmental priorities. Clean energy systems have the power to level the playing field, and remain one of our most potent tools to improve our Climate Impact. However, for these systems to become solutions they must be financially viable. Bold minds must emerge to drive ideas to disrupt the status quo. Equally important, the scientific community must have the heart to bravely sell these solutions past ignorant skepticism and across political lines.

Join us in Beautiful, Historic, New Bedford Massachusetts this Summer, at America's biggest commercial fishing port. Come seek the wisdom of the whales who own the oceans and two-thirds of our planet. The answers to many of our challenges are out there - we must be bold enough to listen, and brave enough to act.

Do You Know New Bedford?

60 Miles South of Boston.
Location of New Bedford Marine Commerce Terminal that is Supporting Ongoing US Offshore Wind Construction.
The Largest Commercial Fishing Port In the US.
Home of the Spectacular US National Whaling Museum.
An Epicenter of Sea Food Delight.
Great Beaches.
Historic, Quaint Cobblestone Streets and Incredible Multicultural Nightlfe.

OSES2024 CELEBRATED KEYNOTES AND FEATURED SPEAKERS

Paul Veers

Paul Veers is a Senior Research Fellow for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Chief Engineer at NREL’s National Wind Technology Center. For twelve years he was the Chief Editor for the journal Wind Energy. Paul received the European Academy of Wind Energy’s Scientific Award 2016 for his leadership in wind energy, and the NREL Chairman’s Award for sustained research excellence in 2018. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and is the Executive Director of the North American Wind Energy Academy. Paul has a BS and MS in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Wisconsin and received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 1987.

Jennifer Downing

Jennifer Downing is the Executive Director of the New Bedford Ocean Cluster. She brings to her role over 20 years of nonprofit experience in the areas of economic development and environmental sustainability. A consistent thread running through Jennifer’s career has been a deep interest in advancing collaborative leadership and cross-sector collaborative processes. This prompted her to focus her graduate studies on the subject. In 2018, she received the Brian Webb Award for Outstanding Master of Arts Thesis by Union Institute & University for her paper, Action Learning to Develop Collaborative Capacity for Social Change. In 2023, Downing was named one of 25 Women to Watch by the SouthCoast Almanac. In 2020, she was honored as a recipient of the John S. Brayton Community Service Award by the One South Coast Chamber of Commerce. Jennifer holds a BFA from Marymount Manhattan College in New York City and an MA in Leadership, Public Policy and Social Issues from Union Institute & University.

Chris Niezrecki

Christopher Niezrecki is a Distinguished University Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is currently the Co-Director of the Structural Dynamics and Acoustic Systems Laboratory (http://sdasl.uml.edu/), and leads the Center for Energy Innovation at UMass Lowell (www.uml.edu/energy). Dr. Niezrecki is also the Director of the NSF-Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Wind Energy Science Technology and Research (WindSTAR). He has been directly involved in vibrations, acoustics, smart structures, controls, and renewable energy research for over 30 years, with more than 200 publications. Areas of current research include: renewable energy and hydrogen systems, wind turbine dynamics, monitoring, and inspection, structural dynamic and acoustic systems, smart structures, signal processing, structural health monitoring, optical sensing, and smart materials. He was a recipient of a 2010 National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL/National Wind Technology Center) Research Participant Program Fellowship, the 2018 Roy J. Zuckerberg Endowed Leadership Chair, a 2019 Donahue Sustainability Fellow, and in 2020 was selected as the UMass Lowell Distinguished University Professor.

Carol Anne Clayson

Dr Carol Anne Clayson is the Director for Research Strategy and Innovation and a Senior Scientist in the Department of Physical Oceanography at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Her current areas of research include understanding the air-sea boundary layers and impacts on weather, climate, and energy sectors and the development of satellite and in situ sensors to observe these processes. She has served on numerous national and international science panels, including service as the co-chair of the Climate Panel for the recent NASA Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space. She has served on the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate and has been a lead reviewer of the US Climate Change Science Programme products. Dr. Clayson is the recipient of many awards including a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President W. Clinton. She has also authored or co-authored over 65 journal articles and two books on air-sea boundary layers and numerical ocean modeling. Dr. Clayson consults for corporate executive boards on ESG issues. She holds a BS in physics from Brigham Young University, and MS and PhD degrees in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado.

Bill Hurley

William Hurley is a registered Professional Engineer in Naval Architecture, has co-authored numerous technical papers, helps lead the Society of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineers (SNAME), formally in Planning and Finance, and now in Education, and he was recently appointed to the Board of Western Washington University’s Institute for Energy Studies. Bill has participated in all aspects of naval architecture work, serving on numerous new ship design programs and major vessel conversions, including ferries, research vessels, workboats, barges, dredges and offshore marine construction equipment. While leading Glosten, Bill has been driver of outright marine innovation: 1) Design of North America’s first fleet of Voith Schneider Propelled (VSP) harbor tugs, 2) Design of the world’s first tanker escort vessels, the Lindsey and Garth Foss, 3) The Melville/Knorr conversion, which introduced azimuth thrusters to research vessels, and 4) Many Boeing projects including the development of the Sea-Launch program, the rocket transport ship Delta Mariner, and the Sea-based X-band Radar platform SBX-1. In 2006, Bill Hurley led Glosten’s entry into the marine renewable energy business sector. Glosten now applies its engineering and analysis capabilities to the challenges of offshore wind energy, floating turbine foundations, installation vessels, and marine logistics supporting the marine renewable energy industry in the US and Europe. Additionally, Bill is President of PelaStar LLC, a Glosten new-venture company formed to commercialize the PelaStar floating turbine foundation, developed by Glosten.

Kevin Stokesbury

Kevin Stokesbury is the Dean of the School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST), and a Commonwealth Professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. For the past 20 years his work has focused on the sea scallop and groundfish resources, including stock assessment, rotational fishery management strategies, growth and mortality estimates, gear development and recently environmental assessment of windfarm development. Most of his research is collaborative with the fishing industries of Canada and the United States and he was awarded the David H. Wallace Award from the National Shellfish Association (2013) and the Standard-Times Southcoast Man of the Year (2018) for his two decades of science in the public interest, and the connections he has made between fishermen and science. His research has been published in 75 scientific papers and 5 book chapters and funded by over 100 competitively grants (totaling >$ 40 million). He was the founding chair of the Department of Fisheries Oceanography at SMAST from 2005 to 2016. He serves on several ICES committees including Chair of the Scallop Assessment Working Group from 2013 to 2018, and Chair of the Nephrops Benchmark Workshop in 2009. He was recently appointed to the NAS’s Committee on Offshore Science and Assessment, (COSA) and is now the upcoming Chair. He has also been elected as the next President of the National Shellfisheries Association.

EXPLORATION TOPICS

Topic 1: Offshore Renewable Energy Generation
- Wind energy
- Wave and tidal power

- Offshore solar power
- Hybrid systems

Topic 2: Offshore Energy Storage

- Green Hydrogen

- Compressed air
- Pumped hydro
- Batteries
- Thermal storage
- Offshore biomass systems

Topic 3: Integration of Centralised/De-centralised Energy Storage in Electrical Power Networks
- Island networks and smart grids
- Interconnection systems
- Delivery of non-electrical energy services from offshore energy farms

Topic 4. Implementation of Offshore Renewable Energy Generation and Storage Projects
- Multi-purpose use of offshore platforms and marine space

- Economic feasibility analysis

- Mobilization, deployment, and/or decommissioning for offshore energy assets

Topic 5. Decarbonization of Maritime Transport and Other Activities
- Wind and solar-assisted sea faring vessels

- Green fuels for sea faring vessels

- Energy efficiency in sea faring vessels

- Integration of renewables with offshore oil and gas platforms

- Grid impacts of maritime decarbonization

Topic 6. Engineering for Environmental Impacts of Offshore Energy Assets
- Impacts of offshore energy harvesting on sea life

- Engineered measures to mitigate environmental impacts of offshore energy assets

- Symbiotic/synergistic solutions for offshore energy harvesting/storage and marine life

Topic 7. Offshore Energy Systems Policy Analysis and Design

- Policy challenges to sustainable offshore energy systems

- Policy enablement mechanisms for offshore energy system enablement

Topic 8. Energy Systems Economics

- Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) innovations

- Energy service contract architectures

IMPORTANT

DATES/DATA

Abstract Deadline
MAR.15.2024

Abstract Acceptance Notification
APR.5.2024

Early Bird Registation Ends
JUN.7.2024

Submission Deadline for Non Peer-Review Event Proceedings Inclusion
JUN.21.2024

Submission Deadline for Peer-Reviewed IOP Journal of Physics Conference Series Publication
JUL.26.2024

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION, PROCEEDINGS, PAPER PUBLISHING

Abstract Submission

Submitted Abstracts should be prepared using the DOWNLOADABLE ABSTRACT TEMPLATE.

Please submit your Abstract by sending it in PDF format to rupp@uwindsor.ca

Proceedings Publishing (Non-Peer-Reviewed)

If you wish to have your Paper included in the Non-Peer-Reviewed OSES204 Event Proceedings – please be sure to submit it to oses2024submissions@gmail.com by the SUBMISSION DEADLINE FRI.JUN.21.2024. If you do not submit a Paper by this Deadline your Submitted and Approved Abstracts only will appear in these Proceedings.

Paper Publishing (Peer-Reviewed) | IOP Journal of Physics Conference Series

Authors with Accepted Abstracts that wish to Submit Full Papers for Review to be included in OSES2024 IOP Journal of Physics Conference Series Open Access Publication must use the DOWNLOADABLE PAPER TEMPLATE FORMS HERE:

IOP.Paoer Preparation Instructions.pdf

IOP.Multimedia Guidelines.pdf

IOP.Paper Style Guide.pdf

IOP.WordTemplate.zip

IOP.LaTeXTemplates.zip

Please submit your Paper by sending it in PDF format to oses2024submissions@gmail.com by the SUBMISSION DEADLINE FRI.JUL.26.2024.

OSES2024 PROGRAM (Subject To Change)

OSES2024 PDF PROGRAM DOWNLOAD

REGISTRATION DETAILS

REGISTRATION TYPE

REGULAR DELEGATE

STUDENT DELEGATE*

UPTO JUNE.7.2024

750 CAD (~560 USD)

550 CAD (~410 USD)

AFTER JUNE.7.2024

900 CAD (~670 USD)

700 CAD (~522 USD)

NOTE: Students registering and paying "Student Rates" must request their supervisor to send an email (in English) from their University or School email account to rupp@uwindsor.ca, verifying the current status of the student participating in the Symposium.

CONFERENCE VENUE

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth | School for Marine Science & Technology [SMAST]

OSES2024 will be held at the new School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST) of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Surrounded by the Sea, Fort Rodman, and Fort Taber Park, the SMAST Campus is tailor made for an OSES Event.

TRAVELLING TO NEW BEDFORD AND BOSTON AREA

Destination

New Bedford is just 60 miles South of Boston, MA. New Bedford is a coastal city adjacent to the Acushnet River and Buzzards Bay. Boston Logan International Airport is the closest major air hub. Car Rentals can be had at the airport and public transport options are also available. Boston's famed "Peter Pan" Bus Service now commutes between Boston and New Bedford!

LODGING

New Bedford Harbor Hotel

New Bedford Harbor Hotel is 3 miles North of the UMass SMAST Campus where the Conference Sessions will take place. Act fast to capture a SPECIAL ROOM RATE negotiated specifically for our OSES2024 Event - available until FEB.22.2024.