Wednesday, October 6th, the Marine Sciences Research Center (MSRC) will host a special presentation on the Long Island Offshore Wind Initiative. Kathleen Whitley, a Long Island Power Authority consultant with Applied Energy Group, Inc., and Adrienne Esposito, Executive Director of the Citizens Campaign for the Environment, will lead the presentation and discussion on myriad issues related to the proposed wind farm off of Long Island’s South Shore. This unprecedented project would build up to 50 wind turbines approximately 3 miles off of Robert Moses State Park. It would be the first of its kind in the U.S.
Professor Minghua Zhang, Director of the Institute of Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres at MSRC, noted, “We are hosting this meeting because we are interested in how renewable energy can be taken from the atmosphere and the ocean in general, and how this Offshore Wind Project may interact with the local environment in particular the project will force us to pay closer attention to the local wind and ocean wave conditions and their variability on different time scales.”
The presentation will take place at Stony Brook University’s Student Activities Center at 7:00 p.m. To reserve a seat, please call 631-632-8009
