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High School Field Trip to URI Coastal Campus

December 5

High School Field Trip to URI Coastal Campus

Thursday, December 5 2024

RI SAMP: Siting, Stakeholders & the Environment

A one-day high school field trip to the URI Coastal Campus to introduce high school students and their teachers to a key component of Offshore Wind Energy – the conversations, considerations and science that goes into determining where an offshore wind energy turbine field will be located.

Agenda

Time Topic/Activity Speaker/Coordinators Misc.
8:30AM Check-in Refreshments
8:45AM Agenda & Introductions Dr. Joy Hadley
8:50AM Introduction to wind turbines and offshore wind farms. How it works – infrastructure, siting, cables, vessels, etc. Orsted Includes Q&A
9:45AM Ocean SAMP –
The Science: birds, fish, Cetaceans /mammals, plankton, ecosystem, weather,
The Stakeholders: Fisherman, Indians, Commercial Marine Transportation, Recreation and Tourism, Historic: shipwrecks, military, telecommunications
Climate Change:
Jen McCann: Director Includes Q&A
10:30AM Activity: Stakeholders: Fishermen, Tourist Bureaus, Environmentalists,
Siting: Best Site, Worst Site
Dr. Joy Hadley
Mentors assigned to each team: URI Energy Fellows & Coordinators
Assignment of teams that cross different schools.
Resources available
11:00PM Lunch
11:30PM Student Team Presentations
12:30PM Wrap-up. Boarding Buses to return to school

Resources: View PDF

Details

Date:
December 5

Venue

URI Coastal Campus