Author Archives: Wesley Williams

The first part of August had Helen and I attending the UMERC/METS conference in Duluth, Minnesota. It was my first trip to the area and I was impressed. The weather was great and it is fair to say that their … Continue reading →

The end of July brought great news that the collaboration with Dr. Michael Dickey in the Innovating Distributed Embedded Energy Prize (INDEEP) was one of the finalist in round 2 of the competition. We are stoked to expand the team … Continue reading →

The Renewable Energy Mechanism group made the jaunt up to Boone, North Carolina for the Appalachian Energy Summit the first week in June. The students did a great job with their poster presentation, earning a best poster award for their … Continue reading →

May brought the end of the semester, but the some solid conference travel to Oregon. TEAMER hosted a WEC workshop at Oregon State that featured software walkthroughs, in-tank testing, and a well curated ‘fungenda’. Bryson Robertson and Samantha Quinn put … Continue reading →

Before exams and end of semester grading took over everyone’s lives, we were able to get the current students, former students, colleagues, and former colleagues over to the house for some food, chatting, and applications of applied probability. Special congrats … Continue reading →

The team at the UNC Coastal Studies Institute hosted another great symposium April 8th and 9th for the North Carolina Renewable Ocean Energy Program. Mackay Burke, Naomi Diaz, Jack Doughty, Chase Pressley, and Bradley Wagoner made the trip from the … Continue reading →

I was glad to be in DC for Waterpower Week last week. It was good to see a lot of familiar faces and get updates on the various deployments and developments in the marine energy sector. I took a quick … Continue reading →