In a major push to advance innovation and nationwide safety efforts in collaboration with the US Navy, Stony Brook College’s Director of Ecosystems Development and Impression, David Hamilton, traveled to Washington, DC, on March 5 to advocate on for sturdy funding to assist vitality resilience analysis initiatives. In collaboration with the US Navy and UMASS Lowell, SBU is performing cutting-edge vitality resilience analysis.
“Our analysis supplies essential help to the Navy in its efforts to create a extra sustainable and resilient vitality infrastructure and to assist obtain decreased carbon emission targets,” mentioned Hamilton. “To attain superior army vitality resilience, Congress should proceed to supply sturdy funding for university-government partnerships leveraging the progressive work and experience of college researchers.”
Resilience is outlined by the flexibility to anticipate, put together for, and adapt to altering circumstances, and forestall, stand up to, reply to, and get well quickly from disruptions. As a result of the world is altering quicker than ever, attaining vitality resilience and independence requires a transformative strategy that leverages basic analysis, the event of recent applied sciences, and validation of lately developed ones that may guarantee safety and sustainability. The transformation of the Navy’s and the nation’s vitality reliance from typical sources to sustainable applied sciences requires researchers to view and tackle lots of the operational know-how challenges from a special perspective. Particular areas of curiosity to the Navy embody: addressing electrical energy disruption, grid integration of renewable vitality sources, addressing vitality security and life-cycle sustainability, vitality storage, improved microgrids, bodily and cyber grid safety, manufacturing of low to zero-carbon fuels, lowering carbon emissions, and the inspection and structural well being monitoring of essential vitality infrastructure.
Throughout his go to to Capitol Hill, Hamilton joined his UMASS-Lowell colleagues in conferences with the places of work of Senator Schumer, Senator Gillibrand, Senator Markey, Rep. LaLota and Rep. Trehan.
Stony Brook’s Workplace of Federal Relations situated in Washington, DC, coordinated these congressional conferences and works carefully with SBU management, school, workers, and college students to advance SBU’s federal priorities.