The 2nd North American INORE Symposium was held in October at the Friday Harbor Labs in the ‘paradise’ of the San Juan Island, Washington. The University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Labs campus is tucked back in the woods along the north shore of Friday Harbor. Deer roam freely and sea otters play along the rocky shore of the campus. It truly was an idyllic location for the symposium!
The symposium included three days of planned activities for the 35 attendees. The travel grants again came in handy, subsidising the travel expenses of two participants from Chile and one from Puerto Rico. The schedule included quickfire introductions and the usual poster presentations and INOREan talks. Andrea Copping from PNNL was a great help in organizing a few activities and presented US group picabout the non-engineering difficulties of the field of offshore renewable energy. Ryan Nicoll from DSA also gave a workshop on their modelling software ProteusDS, and Kelley Ruel and Carlos Michelen from Sandia National Labs gave a workshop on the modelling software WEC-Sim. We ended the symposium with a field trip to Lime Kiln Point State Park, where we took in the sun and played Frisbee while watching the porpoises. The symposium organisers, Elizabeth Brasseale and Adam Brown, did a fantastic job!