{"id":7905,"date":"2015-05-01T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/?p=7905"},"modified":"2015-04-28T00:36:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T00:36:41","slug":"northwest-national-marine-renewable-energy-center-links-research-education-and-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2015\/05\/01\/northwest-national-marine-renewable-energy-center-links-research-education-and-outreach\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center links research, education and outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2015\/04\/4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-7909 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2015\/04\/4-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"4\" width=\"483\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As part of our <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fa.oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/planning-policy-assessment\/annual-reports\">annual sustainability report<\/a><\/strong> building for FY14, we learned about a fun connection between research, education and outreach.\u00a0 The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nnmrec.oregonstate.edu\/\">Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center<\/a><\/strong> (NNMREC) was established at OSU in 2008 and is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to facilitate the development of marine renewable energy technologies via research, education, and outreach. Partner universities include the University of Washington and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2015\/04\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-7911 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2015\/04\/2.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"452\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2114\/files\/2015\/04\/2.jpg 720w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2114\/files\/2015\/04\/2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NNMREC hosts weekly educational forums on campus,\u00a0has developed hands-on educational materials for K-12 (accessible through all Oregon STEM centers),\u00a0and is\u00a0assisting in the development of\u00a0two college-level courses on renewable energy technology. <span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong>During FY14, NNMREC hosted 22 presentations at OSU on marine renewable energy through Marine Forum, engaged over 60 K-12 students in build-it-yourself wave energy converter activities, and began developing a college-level introductory course and textbook on renewable energy technology.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 Keep making waves, NNMREC!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2015\/04\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-7907 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2015\/04\/1.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"427\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2114\/files\/2015\/04\/1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2114\/files\/2015\/04\/1-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our annual sustainability report building for FY14, we learned about a fun connection between research, education and outreach.\u00a0 The Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center (NNMREC) was established at OSU in 2008 and is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to facilitate the development of marine renewable energy technologies via research, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292108,1292103,607472,1292105],"tags":[356],"class_list":["post-7905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-energy","category-events-outreach","category-research","tag-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7905"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7928,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions\/7928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}