{"id":1366,"date":"2022-10-14T19:46:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T23:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:25:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:25:50","slug":"umerc-mets-orec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/2022\/10\/umerc-mets-orec\/","title":{"rendered":"UMERC\/METS\/OREC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2022\/10\/20220914_122329-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"515\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2022\/10\/20220914_122329-1024x515.jpg\" alt=\"North Carolina Renewable Ocean Energy Program faculty, students and alumni with Water Bros Desal at the conference\" class=\"wp-image-1367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2022\/10\/20220914_122329-1024x515.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2022\/10\/20220914_122329-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2022\/10\/20220914_122329-768x387.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2022\/10\/20220914_122329-1536x773.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2022\/10\/20220914_122329-2048x1031.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">North Carolina Renewable Ocean Energy Program faculty, students and alumni with Water Bros Desal at the conference<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was good to be back to in-person conferences this September for UMERC\/METS\/OREC out in Portland.  There were a lot of great presentations and it was nice to hear all of the exciting research updates.  In particular, it was great to catch up with my former student Casey and hear about all the exciting things he&#8217;s doing at NREL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2022\/10\/IMG_20221014_194411.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2022\/10\/IMG_20221014_194411-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Catching up with Casey Nichols \" class=\"wp-image-1368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2022\/10\/IMG_20221014_194411-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2022\/10\/IMG_20221014_194411-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2022\/10\/IMG_20221014_194411-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/files\/2022\/10\/IMG_20221014_194411.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Catching up with Casey Nichols <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was good to be back to in-person conferences this September for UMERC\/METS\/OREC out in Portland. There were a lot of great presentations and it was nice to hear all of the exciting research updates. In particular, it was great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/2022\/10\/umerc-mets-orec\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1850,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/wbwillia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}