Old Dominion University - Virginia Coastal Energy Research Consortium

http://www.odu.edu/ao/research/vcerc/index.shtml

Norfolk, VA
Dr. Patrick Hatcher
Executive Director
757-683-6537
phatcher@odu.edu

Dr. Aron Stubbins
Assistant Director
757-683-4260
astubbin@odu.edu

Dana Oblak
Office Manager
757-683-4105
doblak@odu.edu

The State of Virginia has assigned Old Dominion University the leadership role in the Virginia Coastal Energy Research Consortium (VCERC), with the mission to seek out and develop new alternative energy research directions and evaluate viable renewable energy sources for Virginia. VCERC is comprised of ODU and its other Virginia University partners: Virginia Tech, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Norfolk State University, James Madison University, University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University and Hampton University. This statewide, inter-university network is destined to become a leader in the research and development of numerous alternative energy projects that will be of direct benefit to local employment,
manufacturing groups, state institutions, the students and staff of Virginian Universities and the Virginian public. Virginia, with its vast coastline, natural waterways and abundant sunshine, is ideally suited for a number of alternative energy applications, most notably, Biodiesel Production from Algae and Offshore Wind Farms and it is on these two technologies that VCERC at ODU will initially focus.

Retrieved from Old Dominion University website on 1/7/2010.