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UVic Video: discovering clean energy sources for BC’s coastal communities
PRIMED’s trip to (unusually sunny) Haida Gwaii!
In the last week of March, 2022, PRIMED staff members Ben, Riley, and Chloe, plus grad student Aidan McKenna, travelled to Haida Gwaii to deploy an ADCP for tidal energy research in Masset Inlet. They met up with fellow renewable energy researchers Greg Trowse and Tristan Guest of LunaSea Solutions to collaborate on a drones and drifters survey in the same study area.
Mowachaht Muchalaht First Nation Site Visit
With spring on the doorstep and covid restrictions...
PRIMED 2021 Wrap-up
It’s been an exciting and busy 2021 for the PRIMED team. As we approach the end of the year and the beginning of 2022, we wanted to look back and summarize some of our work over the past year.
Wind buoy could help remote coastal communities ditch diesel dependence
2021 November – Weighing in at 5,500 kg, a locally designed and manufactured buoy will be the first of its kind in BC waters to relay rich data about offshore wind. The buoy is part of a unique UVic project to help remote BC coastal communities replace or reduce their...
Welcome to PRIMED, Sam!
The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) is currently developing a Marine Energy Resource Atlas for Canada. The goal of this cloud-hosted computer application is to support technical assessment of marine energy resources (waves, tidal currents, river flows). This...
We finally have our own website!
After nearly 2 years of being a research group, PRIMED finally made it to the internet!