I have been working towards the first outputs from my research, which will be at a couple of academic conferences this year.
Firstly, I will be presenting a poster at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015 in Vienna, on the work we have been doing on “Wave-current interactions at the FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility”. This will be in Session NP7.3 on Wednesday 15th April, just in case you happen to be there, do drop by and say hello. I feel slightly intimidated to be presenting as part of a session on non-linear physics of wave-current interactions, as this is not my speciality by any means. But hopefully people will be interested by the potential for interesting research at FloWave, as this is more what I have concentrated on.
The other main piece of work I have been busy with is a paper for the European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC), in Nantes this September. This is on the initial characterisation and spatial variability of the currents generated at FloWave. Again, I think the interesting and novel aspect of this topic is more focussed on the facility, rather than my analysis, but I have got a good chunk of data to present and discuss.
More details to follow once I have finished this work, and actually get to publicly present it. So far I’ve only had to present the outline of my work at an internal event, which hardly counts as a proper academic grilling!