REMS Blog

Index

  1. REMS Workshop in Oxford (December 2021)
  2. Workshop on cyclic loading for offshore wind turbine foundation design at Oxford-Wayne Wu
  3. 1st REMS Structural Integrity Seminar – Satya Anandavijayan
  4. 4th REMS Annual Conference in Glasgow – Jessica Taylor
  5. Visiting Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) in Oslo – Toby Balaam
  6. Visiting University of Western Australia, Perth – Iona Richards
  7. Attending a Conference in Taiwan – Russell Mayall
  8. Deng in a Booming Industry – Scott Whyte
  9. Field Experiment Deployment – Waseem Khodabux and Paul Causon
  10. New offshore renewable energy systems by Sandia – Anastasia Ioannou

REMS Workshop in Oxford (December 2021)

09/02/22

After more than 2-years since the last face-to-face REMS event, a workshop, combined with a Christmas dinner, took place in early December at St Catherine’s College in Oxford. This was a great opportunity to catch up with the other REMS students from across the...

1st REMS Structural Integrity Seminar

24/07/19

Following the success of the REMS annual conference this year, a full day seminar was held on structural integrity on the 24th July 2019 at Strathclyde University. The aim of this workshop was to allow students within the REMS structural integrity community...

4th REMS Annual Conference in Glasgow

04/07/19

4th REMS Annual Conference The REMS annual conference is a great place to catch up with colleagues who are spread all over the country (and Europe), and learn a bit more about the vast array of work on offshore renewables which is being carried out at the REMS centre....

Visiting Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) in Oslo

12/06/19

In February 2019, I spent almost a month at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) in Oslo. Firstly, to attend the ‘DENSER’ workshop and then staying for a few weeks to work on a few collaborative projects.The ‘DENSER’ workshop was a two-day event, held at NGI’s...

Visiting University of Western Australia, Perth

18/02/19

I arrived in Perth in mid-October 2018, for a 10 week visit to the National Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility (NGCF) at the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems (COFS), University of Western Australia (UWA). Arriving to Perth in springtime was lovely. It was sunny...

Attending a Conference in Taiwan

03/11/18

Saturday 3rd November – Arriving in TaiwanWhen I booked my ticket for the 9th International Conference on Scour and Erosion (ICSE 2018), I didn’t anticipate exploring the Tonghua night market in Taipei trying to decide which street food to eat, while struggling with...

DEng in a Booming Industry

24/07/18

I joined the 1st cohort of the Renewable Energy Marine Structures (REMS) Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in 2014. At that time there was a feeling of reserved optimism in the developing European offshore wind sector that the CAPEX and OPEX price would incrementally...

Field Experiment Deployment

16/01/18

It is wise to start by welcoming the new cohort 2021 to the REMS centre and wish them loads of fun and success in their future researches. The week of the 18th of September was a particularly eventful for the REMS students. It was a week of conferences where both the...

New offshore renewable energy systems by Sandia

21/06/17

Offshore wind energy remains an untapped power resource in the United States of America considering the strong offshore wind power potential (of approx.. 4,150 GW according to NREL) along the US coasts, where major population centres are located. Due to slow wind...