Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind (ARROW)

The Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind (ARROW), a 40+ partner consortium of government, industry, and academic partners, is a first-of-its-kind center of excellence on offshore wind from the Department of Energy and the states of Massachusetts and Maryland. It will focus on the interdisciplinary research, education, and policy needed to accelerate the growth of the offshore wind industry in the United States. Northeastern will lead the center’s Industry Exchange Program and the Infrastructure Innovation Thrust.

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Andrew T. Myers
Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies,  Civil and Environmental Engineering
Industry Lead,  Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind (ARROW)

Fixed and floating offshore wind structures; multi-scale experimental testing of structures; computational simulation; probabilistic modeling

First-Ever National Offshore Wind Research Center

CEE Professor Andrew Myers, CEE/MIE Associate Research Professor Nathan Post, and CEE CDM Smith Professor and Department Chair Jerome Hajjar, in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a consortium of forty partners, were selected to join a first-of-its-kind $11.9 million DOE research center, Academic Center for Reliability and Resilience of Offshore Wind (ARROW), dedicated to accelerate reliable and equitable offshore wind energy deployment across the nation. It will focus on workforce development, targeted research, and partnerships and strategies to embed equity in offshore wind development.