Gender Male
Website www.naturalcurrents.com
Roger has a lifetime love of the sea and its study, dating back to a 1969 voyage as a technical assistant spending a junior year off-campus working with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) aboard the R/V Atlantis-II, Voyage 54. Introduced to tidal energy in 2001, he saw an opportunity to combine his technology, engineering, energy and
oceanographic background into a single quest and life mission: Introducing “Environmentally Friendly†Tidal Power to the US and the World.
Roger now serves as tidal and renewable energy technical consultant to the UN Partnership for Small Island Developing States, has lectured and taught tidal energy graduate programs and internships for students from a dozen regional colleges and universities including two years with the graduate program at Columbia University, School of International Public Affairs (SIPA), Center for Energy Marine Transportation and Public Policy. Roger has served as Ocean Energy Expert for the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) and for the New and Renewable Energy Centre in the UK. He presently manages tidal energy projects with the Klingit-Haida Indian Nation (“the People of the Tidesâ€) in Southeast Alaska, the US DOE, New York City Parks Department and the New Jersey DOT, Office of Maritime Resources.
