- Associate Research Professor
- Department of Ocean Engineering
- Phone: 401.874.6029
- Email: annette_grilli@uri.edu
- Website
Annette Grilli is a research associate professor of ocean engineering at the University of Rhode Island (URI). She is a climatologist with about 25 years of experience in environmental and ocean engineering (OCE), split between private sector and academia; she joined the URI OCE academic team in 2005. Among her most relevant offshore and coastal projects, she has been particularly involved (as Principal or Co-Principal Investigator) in a number of offshore marine renewable energy development project as (1) the siting optimization of an Oscillating Water Column wave energy plant potentially deployed in RI (Energetech/Oceanlinx, Australia), (2) the conceptual development, design and modeling of point absorber autonomous buoys, and (3) the siting optimization of a wind farm, including resources, technical, ecological and societal factors applied to the Block Island wind farm in the context of the Rhode Island Ocean SAMP project. Annette holds a B.S in Geography and a M.S. in Physical Oceanography from the University of Liège, Belgium, and a Ph.D. in Climatology, from the University of Delaware.
Research
- Ecological Service Value Index (ESVI) for the Rhode Ocean Special Area Management Plan (Ocean SAMP) - Design of a value index (macrositing tool) and application to the Ocean SAMP area.
- Rhode Island Ocean Special Area Management Plan (Ocean SAMP) Design of a Southern New England Offshore Wind Demonstration Site - Optimization of the wind farm siting and layout using optimization methods (micrositing optimization).