Graduate Student Symposium Flash Talks
Thank you to the following attendees for presenting Flash Talks at the NAWEA/WindTech Graduate Student Symposium that was held on October 29, 2024 at Rutgers-New Brunswick.
| First Name | Last Name | Institution | Category | Flash Talk Name (Abstracts coming soon!) |
| Daniel | Bouzolin | The University of Texas at Dallas | 1. Wind Energy Technologies | Research on Floating Vertical Axis Wind Turbines |
| Elan | Fullmer | Syracuse University | 1. Wind Energy Technologies | Small-Scale Wind for Rooftop Applications |
| Pharlin | Medard | University of Puerto Rico | 1. Wind Energy Technologies | Waves Effects On Power Production of Wind Turbines Using a Coupled Level Set and LES Solver |
| Jose | Mora | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 1. Wind Energy Technologies | Free form multidisciplinary optimization of reference wind turbine using high fidelity structural modeling tools. |
| Jundong | Wang | Ocean University of China | 1. Wind Energy Technologies | wave interaction to wind? |
| Jack | Cimorelli | University of Massachusetts Lowell | 2. Systems Integration | Designing Resilient Microgrids for Naval Bases |
| James | Cutler | Brigham Young University | 2. Systems Integration | Realistic Wind Farm Design |
| Victor | Eniola | University of Massachusetts Lowell | 2. Systems Integration | Optimizing Wind-Hydrogen Integrated Microgrid Design: Accounting for Wind Speed Fluctuations |
| Mehrnoush | Ghazanfariharandi | Rutgers University | 2. Systems Integration | Evaluating task-based forecasts for power systems with wind energy |
| Michael | LoCascio | Stanford University | 2. Systems Integration | Data-driven wake model parameter estimation |
| Weston | Pace | Brigham Young University | 2. Systems Integration | Realistic Off Shore Wind Farm Optimization |
| Ashish | Sedai | Texas Tech University | 2. Systems Integration | Variable Renewable Energy Penetration-Curtailment Paradox |
| Ilan | Upfal | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2. Systems Integration | Co-Optimizing Layout and Joint Yaw-Thrust Control to Design Cost-Effective and Profitable Wind Farms |
| Nida | Ahsan | Stevens Institute of Technology | 3. Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences | Please provide your title |
| Oyewole | Abe | University of Massachusetts Amherst | 3. Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences | Offshore Wind Turbine Blade and Tower Loads induced by Veer in Hurricane Wind Fields |
| Nathan | Agarwal | Johns Hopkins University | 3. Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences | Evaluation of wake simulations with North Sea observations, testing MYNN and 3DPBL schemes |
| Ophelia | Christoph | University of Delaware | 3. Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences | GEOLOGICAL DATA OF THE MID-ATLANTIC BIGHT CONTINENTAL SHELF FOR THE PURPOSE OF OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE FOUNDATION RECOMMENDATIONS |
| Arianna | Jordan | University of Oklahoma | 3. Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences | Is the Growing Number of Wind farms Connected to Boundary-layer Characteristics in Northern Oklahoma? |
| Jacob | Nadolsky | Texas Tech University | 3. Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences | Texas Tech University Hurricane Research Team |
| Geeta | Nain | Michigan Tech University | 3. Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences | Hurricanes induced extreme winds for offshore wind farms applications |
| Jean Claire | Pineda | Montclair State University | 3. Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences | “Assessing Options for Decarbonization and Metal Reduction in Offshore Wind Turbines Using Life Cycle Analysis” |
| Samuel | Davis | University of Maine | 4. Engineering, Reliability, and Maintenance | Calm Water Resistance Test of a Barge-type Floating Offshore Wind Turbine using Model-Scale Tow Testing |
| Kathryn | Jones | University of California Irvine | 4. Engineering, Reliability, and Maintenance | Concrete Additive Manufacturing for Ultra-Tall Wind Turbine Towers and Foundations: A Life Cycle Environmental Assessment |
| Nebiyu Bogale | Mereke | Universite Libre de Bruxelles | 4. Engineering, Reliability, and Maintenance | Numerical Modelling of hydrokinetic Banki Michell turbine |
| Isaac | Sewell | University of Maine | 4. Engineering, Reliability, and Maintenance | Methodology for Correcting Wave Elevation Data for Radiated and Diffracted Effects Near Floating Offshore Structures |
| Ai | Zhang | Northern Arizona University | 4. Engineering, Reliability, and Maintenance | ModulatedModulated Predictive Virtual Flux Direct Power Control for Three-Level Boost and NPC Converters in PMSG Wind Energy Systems |
| Melanie | Kwestel | Rutgers University | 5. Social Science and Policy | What We Have Here is a Failure to Collaborate: Misinformation, Collective Action, and Collaboration in the Anti-Offshore Wind Community |
| Tolulope | Omodara | Rutgers University | 5. Social Science and Policy | The Criticality of Stakeholder Engagement to Effective Offshore Wind Energy Policy Implementation |