News this week
Neil Kermode, Managing Director, is in Edinburgh at this end of the week, conducting business meetings. Jennifer Norris, Research Manager, was at the final meeting of the SEA steering group last week, which discussed ways to take forward recommendations of the S.E.A. Edwina Cook, Business Development officer, gave a talk to the Stromness Primary Seven Read More »
News this week
EMEC are pleased to announce that the latest versions of draft standards and scopes are now accessible using this web-site. Click on ‘Standards’ on the banner above, and then ‘Abstracts’. We will keep you as up to date as possible by revising this site as the documents evolve. Please note that the development of some standards Read More »
News this week
The weather has been interesting this week, and produced some magnificent waves again! Analysis of the past year’s wave heights at Billia Croo has identified maximum wave height of 12m. One of the wave rider buoys from Billia Croo has begun its epic journey to Datawell in the Netherlands for recalibration and service. Edwina Cook Read More »
News this week
Despite blue skies at the beginning of the week, as you can see from the photograph the weather has changed for the worse at this end of the week. A severe storm passed north of Orkney overnight and left Billia Croo wave site boiling with waves of 9.5 metres. The weather was enjoyed by our Read More »
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Visits this week include students from Sanday School. These included craft & design, art & design, and technical studies students in S3 and S4. These students pass the tidal test site facility at the Fall of Warness regularly and it was good to inform them of the activities taking place there. We also had a Read More »
News this week
The photogrpah was taken at sunrise this morning from EMEC’s offices here in Stromness. The glorious start to a new day and a new year. The Operations Team have been working down at the Metereological Station at Billia Croo and have re-calibrated the rain gauge. Also down at Billia Croo we are waiting for a Read More »
