+ 9/12 Prof. Eric Hines of Tufts University and LeMessurier Consultants to join project team
+ 8/12 Northeastern University press release on Prof. Myers
+ 8/12 Project team attends inaugural meeting of the North American Wind Energy Academy
+ 8/12 NSF awards grant (1234560 and 1234656) to Northeastern and UMass Amherst to support research on hurricanes and OWTs.
+ News archive
Project objectives
This website describes the research being conducted at Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst on the risk posed to offshore wind turbines (OWTs) by hurricanes off the Atlantic coast of the United States. The work is funded by the US National Science Foundation for 2012-2015 and this site will be used to report project progress.
Project objectives
1.
A hurricane hazard model for offshore wind turbines.
2.
Assessment of OWT resilience to hurricanes.
3.
Methods for treating interactions between the
turbines composing a wind farm
4. Development and characterization of novel design details that improve
the reliability of OWT support structures. 
Overall research framework (core research tasks in red). The research objective is the development of a risk and performance-based design framework for OWT support structures. Significant ancillary research tasks treat the interactions and spatial correlations in wind farms, and attempt to improve current OWT support structure designs for increased robustness. Industry collaboration with AIR Worldwide, NREL, and LeMessurier Consultants informs the hazard assessment, performance-level selections, OWT modeling, dissemination, and provides an industry-tested platform for evaluating our fragility approaches in wind farm assessment.