Director Kasper engages with ACEP and ARCTIC partners in Cordova
PWSSC's Katrina Hoffman and ACEP's Jeremy Kasper visit the center’s seawater pump house in Cordova, ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ.
August 4, 2024
ACEP Director Jeremy Kasper visited Cordova in July to engage with local ACEP and ARCTIC partners.
During his stay, he visited the ’s new 5-acre waterfront campus with advanced laboratories, a running seawater system and plans for a science residence and dormitory.
The 20,000-square-foot facility makes PWSSC and ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ more competitive for national-level research funding, supports high-wage jobs, generates new opportunities for STEAM — science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics — education, and advances industries such as mariculture, aquaculture, commercial fishing and seafood processing.
PWSSC is expanding its expertise and focus to include renewable energy research, and boasts a state-of-the-art seawater heat exchange system, joining the and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s as the only facilities in ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ to heat with seawater.
Kasper was joined in Cordova by Tommy Sheridan, who serves as the local site coordinator for ACEP-ARCTIC, while also serving as the lead for the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Blue Economy Center.
The ARCTIC program, short for the program, is an Office of Naval Research initiative, designed to promote commerce and partnerships among ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ and the Arctic and Pacific regions through advancements in energy through resiliency research, technology development, and deployment and education.