DS-23. Navigating geoscience and engineering challenges in offshore wind development. More than just a North Sea perspective

Tracks
Dedicated Sessions
Thursday, June 5, 2025
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room 13

Speaker

Dr Cristiana Giglio
Geohazard Consultant
Rina Consulting

Geohazard challenges in offshore wind development: insights from the Mediterranean Sea

Dr Guillaume Michel
Project Geoscientist
Venterra Group

A review of subsurface geological variability in the Irish Sea, a challenge to Offshore Wind development

Mr David O'Dowd
Geophysicist
Ocean Infinity

Benefits of an Engineering Focused Ground Model, an Irish Sea Wind Farm Case Study

Ms Emilia Ranete
Senior Geoscience Consultant
TetraTech RPS Energy Ltd

Palaeo-environmental reconstruction – Application of high-resolution geophysics in determining glacial environments

Dr Stefan Wenau
R&D Geophysicist
ATLAS MARIDAN

Optimizing seismic imaging of glacial geology for offshore wind development

Mr Daniel Salvador Cammarata Salazar
Fraunhofer Iwes

Dedicated Ultra-High Resolution Seismic Diffraction Imaging for Boulder Detection: A Case Study from the Baltic Sea

Prof. Zack Westgate
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Glauconite: why is the offshore geotechnical world just now waking up to this odd mineral?

Mr Evan Mutual
Lead Geophysicist
Qeye

Seismic inversion in offshore wind: implications of complex near-surface soils on AVO approximations