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Dr Susana Baston joined ICIT in September 2009 as a post-doctoral research associate on the SRDG programme. She arrived from the IH Cantabria (Spain) where she completed her PhD on long wave propagation. Her research interests centre on hydrodynamic and morphological coastal processes. She will be involved in the study of the effects of marine renewable energy devices on flow behaviour and the consequences arising from them. |
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Dr Michael Bell joined ICIT in December 2008 as a post-doctoral research associate on the SRDG programme. He was previously a shellfish scientist with Cefas in Lowestoft, before leaving to work as a freelance fisheries research consultant based in Lowestoft and then Orkney. His research interests centre around science in support of sustainable exploitation of fish and shellfish stocks, which focus will be brought to bear in examining the ecological consequences of marine renewable energy developments. |
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Colin has over 15 year's of research and consultancy
experience. His early work at ICIT focused on risk, safety, and environmental engineering; particularly
within the context of offshore oil and gas infrastructure. Marine
operations and the deployment of scientific instrumentation is
a particular area of expertise. Recently collaborations have involved
the design and implementation of moorings experiments to assess
the impact of marine growth induced drag on renewable marine energy
devices as part of the Supergen
Marine programme. |
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Kate joined ICIT in May 2008 as ICIT Research Programme
(MREDS) Administrator. With an HND in Business Administration
and experience working with Highlands & Islands Enterprise,
local solicitors and most recently for Orkney Islands Council,
Kate is responsible for the administration of the programme and
is usually the main point of contact for those seeking information
about MREDS. |
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Dr. Harris was a Lecturer in the School of Life
Sciences at Heriot-Watt and has recently relocated to the University's
Orkney campus, joining the ICIT / IPE research and teaching
group. His main research interests lie in the fields of hydrodynamics,
oceanography and more recently marine renewable energy systems,
he has over 29 years experience in hydrodynamic model testing,
and in offshore / marine structures. |
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Dr. Kerr teaches on a number of energy related MSc
courses and supervises doctoral students. His research interests
include the sustainable management of coastal and island resources
particularly renewable energy, fisheries, and conservation. Recent
research articles have appeared in journals such as Ocean and
Coastal Management, and Fisheries Research and Town Planning Review. |
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Erlend joined ICIT in November 1992 and has been
responsible for the provision of technical and computing support
on all research projects since this time. He oversees the use
of all computer and network hardware and software, and is able
to assist with student use of computing facilities. More recently
he has been involved in the technical support of video-conferencing
facilities as well as setting up and maintaining both this website
and ICIT's site. |
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Eileen joined the staff of ICIT in 1990 as Administration
Manager, after a career in the Scottish Office as a Researcher
and thereafter as an assistant Staff Officer with the UKAEA in
Dounreay. Eileen is responsible for the administration of ICIT's Postgraduate courses together with responsibility for student welfare in Orkney including
the provision of student accommodation in Stromness and is usually
the first point of contact for students planning to come to Orkney. |
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Professor Side is Director of ICIT and Professor of Sustainable Development at Heriot-Watt
University. He holds an honorary professorship at the University
of Edinburgh, and is a fellow of the RICS. He is a long-term champion
of marine renewables in Scotland, and has served several terms
as Chair of OREF. He has
been involved in numerous marine science research programmes,
and has project managed several of these, including 3 EU framework
research projects. |
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Andrew was appointed Research Associate at ICIT in December 2008 following several months assisting with marine field research. This has included further development of the methodologies for hydrophonic recordings of diving seabirds Future research will consider various monitoring strategies for shore-line organisms susceptible to climatic change, and to examine the ecological consequences of wave energy extraction. |
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Professor Barltrop was appointed Chair and
Head of Department
of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering at the University
of Glasgow in 1995 following many years with W. S. Atkins.
In 2001 he oversaw the merger between Glasgow and Strathclyde
Universities’ Naval Architecture Departments. He is actively
involved in numerous research projects in the fields of hydrodynamics,
statistics and wave impact forces; offshore renewable energy:
device behaviour accessibility and maintainability; jack-up stability;
calculation methods for stress intensity factors and fatigue lives
of ship details; effects of corrosion and fatigue on reliability
of ageing structures. |
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Dr. Chalmers has a background in agricultural
research and practice. He joined Orkney
College, UHI Millennium Institute in 1999 to lead the development
in collaboration with ICIT of an undergraduate programme in sustainable development and environmental
management. He delivers courses in renewable energy, waste minimisation,
biotechnology and sustainable development to UHI programmes and
his area of responsibility at the College includes Agronomy and Archaeology/Geophysics.
He is also a member of the OREF Board. |
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Professor Corbett is Head of the Institute
of Petroleum Engineering. He has a PhD in Petroleum Engineering
and a DSc “Petroleum Geoengineering”. From 1978, Patrick
worked for 11 years in industry in various positions in international
exploration and development geoscience for Unocal in the UK, Netherlands
and Indonesia. Since then he has followed an active research career
investigating many aspects of permeability, anisotropy modelling,
well test interpretation, dynamic upscaling, and genetic petrophysics.
He was SPE EUROPEC convenor for a Special Session of “Petroleum
plus Renewables” at the EAGE/SPE Forum in Vienna in 2006. |
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Dr. Davies is the current Chair of the Orkney
Renewable Energy Forum (OREF). He has a PhD in marine biology,
and has worked as an environmental consultant for most of his
career. His work in the North of Scotland on renewable energy
resources is well known and forms part of the 350 projects covering
a wide range of environmental and operational energy studies he
has completed. |
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Professor Davos is a theoretical, methodological,
teaching and research interests focus on the evaluation of environmental
policy impacts with direct stakeholder participation. An integral
part of these interests is the game theoretic analysis of conflicts
and compensation strategies for achieving sustainable stakeholder
co-operation and environmental justice.
Recent field applications, working with ICIT,
include cases of coastal management in Europe and South America. |
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Dr. Fletcher is a specialist in electrical
power generation, conversion, control and utilisation. He is a
senior lecturer in the Institute
of Energy and the Environment at the University
of Strathclyde and is a member of the Power Electronics, Drives
and Energy Conversion research group. His research interests include
renewable generation, HVDC transmission, electrical grid interfacing
and control and holds patents in the areas of novel electrical
machines and power electronic converters. |
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Professor Gibb is Director of the Environmental
Research Institute at North
Highland College, UHI Millennium Institute. His research has
been in the fields of marine bio-geochemistry, including biogenic
gases, air-sea exchange processes and atmospheric chemistry, phytoplankton
dynamics and climatic and environmental change.
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Professor Jowitt is Professor of Civil Engineering
Systems and Executive Director of the Scottish
Institute of Sustainable Technology at Heriot
Watt University. He is currently a Board Member of Scottish
Water, a Member of the EPSRC
Peer Review College, a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Edinburgh and a Vice President of the Institution
of Civil Engineers. His major research interests concern the
issues of sustainable development, risk, and the development of
systems-level solutions within civil and marine engineering, the
built environment and environmental management. |
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George is a Research Fellow in the department
of Naval Architecture
and Marine Engineering (Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde)
with primary interest in risk-based design and risk modelling.
He has participated in a number of research and commercial projects
and he has authored and co-authored 5 journal and conference papers. |
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Professor Rennie is Head of Research at Lews
Castle College, UHI Millenium Institute. His main research
interest is the relationships between the natural environment
and community development. Recent work has focussed on the use
of new technologies to promote rural development; involving collaborations
with partners in Europe, Amazonia, New Zealand, Bhutan and Nepal.
Professor Rennie has published widely, including more than 20
books, and is a regular speaker at international conferences. |
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Dr. Smith is a specialist in marine geography
at the School of Earth,
Ocean and Planetary Sciences at the University
of Cardiff. His work includes applications in marine resource
management, sea use management, and the development of maritime
communities. Current projects include coastal research for policy
integration (COREPOINT)
funded by INTERREG IIIB
N W Europe and science and policy integration for coastal
system assessment (SPICOSA)
funded by EU
Framework 6 Programme. |
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Dr. Stephen is a physicist and has been carrying
out research and consultancy for the oil and gas industry at the Institute of Petroleum Engineering since 1996. He has worked on several projects, which have focussed
on improving the modelling and prediction of hydrocarbon recovery
from reservoirs. Karl is applying these interests to modelling
tidal behaviour on the north coast of Scotland to ensure that
energy converters can be appropriately located and operated. |
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After graduation (BSc in Chemical Engineering
from Abadan Institute of Technology), Professor Tohidi joined
the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) in 1984 where he worked
as production engineer as well as university lecturer for seven
years. Bahman Tohidi joined Heriot-Watt
University in 1991 with his doctoral work on the phase behaviour
of water-hydrocarbon systems and gas hydrates. His research interests
include gas hydrates, flow assurance, alternative energy and energy
conversion, phase behaviour, and reducing the emission of greenhouse
gases. |
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Professor Whitmarsh teaches within the Department
of Economics, and supervises doctoral students attached to
the CEMARE research group in the University
of Portsmouth. With over 30 years specialist in the economics
of the marine environment, David has collaborated on projects
with various international agencies, notably the European Commission,
the OECD, and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. |
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Dr. Woodward is a Reader in Geotechnical Engineering
at Heriot-Watt University.
He has developed and patented new techniques in foundation engineering
and has published widely in the international literature on the
behaviour and modelling of foundations under static, cyclic and
dynamic loading. He has researched and supervised numerous research
projects, including on the behaviour of offshore foundations.
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Dr. Woolfe is a marine physicist with interests
in climate, marine and atmospheric processes. Following a PhD
in Physical Oceanography, he spent 17 years at University of Southampton
/ National Oceanography Centre Southampton before joining the Environmental Research Institute in 2006. Most of his published research concerns waves, including
the associated air-sea exchange of material, remote sensing, climatology
and coastal impacts. Recently he has led research at ERI on offshore
resources including offshore winds, waves and tidal currents. |
