Wind Energy and Marine Operations (WEMO) lab

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About WEMO Lab 

Mission

The Wind Energy & Marine Operations (WEMO) Laboratory at the University of Maine develops the science and technology that make offshore renewable energy systems safer to install, smarter to operate, and more resilient over their lifetime. We combine laboratory and field experiments, computational modeling, and AI/ML-enabled digital twins to solve real engineering challenges in the offshore wind and marine industries—while training the next generation of engineers for the Blue Economy.

About the Lab

The world is building offshore wind and marine energy systems that are larger, more complex, and deployed in harsher ocean environments than ever before. Getting them installed safely, keeping them running reliably, and doing it affordably demands new engineering tools. That is the problem the WEMO Lab exists to solve.

Founded and directed by Dr. Amrit Verma, WEMO brings together marine engineering, hydrodynamics, marine structural dynamics, fluid mechanics, experimental methods, and data-driven intelligence within a single interdisciplinary program. We build physical understanding from experiments and models—characterizing how offshore structures move, load, and endure in harsh ocean environments—then pair it with modern AI/ML methods to create predictive tools that support offshore systems across their full life cycle, from installation and marine operations through decades of service. Much of this work happens on experimental facilities we designed and built in-house, ranging from a two-phase wind tunnel and wave tank to digital-twin test beds in the lab and real assets installed in the Gulf of Maine.

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