Oxford fluids researchers to help predict ecological impacts of future offshore wind farms
A multidisciplinary team of researchers, including three fluid dynamicists from Oxford, was awarded a £3.5 million research grant to contribute to the ‘ECOFlow’ programme led by NERC and The Crown Estate.
Three Oxford researchers, Dr Takafumi Nishino, Dr Christopher Vogel and Dr Emma Edwards from the Environmental Fluid Mechanics group, will contribute to the EQUIFy project by providing their expertise in wind farm aerodynamics and floating turbine designs.
The Ecological Effects of Floating Offshore Wind (ECOFlow) programme aims to enhance understanding of how marine ecosystems will respond to the planned large-scale expansion of floating offshore wind (FLOW) infrastructure in UK waters over the next decade. Two new research projects, named ‘EQUIFy’ (led by Prof. Matthew Palmer, Plymouth Marine Laboratory) and ‘FrontLine’ (led by Prof. Stephen Votier, Heriot-Watt University) have been selected by the ECOFlow programme to provide scientific evidence to inform the UK government’s policy and decision making on future offshore wind.
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