When:     7:00 pm, Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Where:    Orca Books (509 East 4th Avenue, Olympia — Phone 360.352.0123)

Our December topic is Tidal Energy Research.
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Tidal energy shows promise as a resource for sustainable, renewable power generation. Research is underway on the technical, environmental and social challenges to its deployment, such as designing and engineering tidal turbines for power production on a utility scale; identification and mitigation of underwater sound and direct interactions between marine animals and marine energy converters; and the development of hydrokinetic turbines at the micro-scale to provide power for autonomous oceanographic instrumentation.

Dr. Brian Polagye, Ph.D., Co-Director of the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center and Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington, will present an overview of the current status of marine renewable energy research.

January 2014 Speaker:

Dr. Terri Gilbert, Ph.D
Application Scientist, Allen Institute For Brain Science

Topic area is brain research at the Allen Institute and the NIH Brain Initiative.