Harnessing renewable offshore energy - with Susan Gourvenec

Offshore wind turbines provide us with clean electricity, powering our homes, vehicles and lifestyles. But how do we design and scale up what's required to meet net zero targets?
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This lecture was recorded at the Ri on 23 June 2023.
Join geotechnical engineer, Susan Gourvenec, as she explores the secret superpowers of the seabed. From the microscale of seabed sediments to the individual foundations placed to support the turbines, discover the latest emerging technologies that will enable us to design and build offshore wind farms at a scale, pace and accuracy that is currently impossible.
With thanks to the Royal Academy of Engineering for their generous support in making tickets to this event free to London schools.
Susan Gourvenec FREng is Professor of Offshore Geotechnical Engineering and Deputy Director of the multi-disciplinary Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute at the University of Southampton, UK. Since 2019, Susan has held a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies in Intelligent & Resilient Ocean Engineering and leads the Centre of Excellence for Intelligent & Resilient Ocean Engineering.
Susan’s research in geotechnical engineering involves the study of soil mechanics and its application to infrastructure built on or in the ground, and developing new ways to achieve safe and efficient design of offshore infrastructure, such as offshore wind turbines.
Susan’s interdisciplinary research interests involve exploration of philosophies of how we engage with the oceans, intersections with ecology, heritage, governance and justice of ocean interventions, and how to responsibly manage end of engineered life of offshore infrastructure.
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