Page 38: of Marine Technology Magazine (January 2017)

Atlantic Canada Profiles

CNA’s Wave Energy Center (Photo: Wave Energy Center)

Established by College of the North tive testing shops at the nearby College

Waves in and around Lord’s

Atlantic in 2011, the Wave Energy Re- of the North Atlantic - Burin campus, as

Cove can be as large as 13m search Center (WERC) was originally well as a myriad of other facilities and in just 25m depth. Although part of a research project to develop expertise at CNA’s 16 other campuses this is rare, waves in the 8m land-based aquaculture using water sup- throughout Newfoundland and Labra- range in winter and 2m range plied by an ocean wave-powered pump. dor. “While existing projects at the cen- in summer are not uncommon.

Recognizing potential research oppor- ter continue to move forward, we are

Statistically, waves are larger tunities within this specialized sector, about to enter a collaboration with Rut- than 1.5m 80% of the time. the center has since expanded to include ter, to test various RADAR-based solu- the development of wave measurement tions for near shore monitoring, includ- “As the Wave Energy Research Center instruments and the testing of anticorro- ing the measurement of surface waves continues to develop, we are actively sive and antifouling marine coatings – and currents, using these measurements pursuing both public and private part- all set in the harsh North Atlantic waters to verify and compare numerical model ners who are looking to collaborate,” off Newfoundland’s southeast coast. predictions of ocean wave propagation,” said Dr. Graham. “These initiatives – re-

The facility, which is housed in a for- said Dr. Michael Graham, WERC’s search and development, the testing of mer