Summary
Simon gained his PhD at Heriot-Watt's Orkney campus, in the far north of Scotland. Orkney is an international hub for marine renewable energy development. Subsequently he has worked at the University of Edinburgh, Marine Scotland Science, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the USA.
Simon's research interests centre around renewable energy and the use of regional-scale hydrodynamic modelling to support human activities, understand their effects, and improve planning and policymaking.
Journal Article
Future policy implications of tidal energy array interactions
Waldman, S., Weir, S., O'Hara Murray, R. B., Woolf, D. K., & Kerr, S. (2019). Future policy implications of tidal energy array interactions. Marine Policy, 108, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.103611
Corrigendum to "Implementation of tidal turbines in MIKE 3 and Delft3D models of Pentland Firth & Orkney waters" [Ocean Coast. Manag. 147 (2017) 21–36]
Waldman, S., Bastón, S., Nemalidinne, R., Chatzirodou, A., Venugopal, V., & Side, J. (2018). Corrigendum to “Implementation of tidal turbines in MIKE 3 and Delft3D models of Pentland Firth & Orkney waters” [Ocean Coast. Manag. 147 (2017) 21–36]. Ocean and Coastal Management, 163, 535-536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2018.07.014
Tidal resource and interactions between multiple channels in the Goto Islands, Japan
Waldman, S., Yamaguchi, S., O'Hara Murray, R., & Woolf, D. (2017). Tidal resource and interactions between multiple channels in the Goto Islands, Japan. International Journal of Marine Energy, 19, 332-344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijome.2017.09.002
Implementation of tidal turbines in MIKE 3 and Delft3D models of Pentland Firth & Orkney Waters
Waldman, S., Bastón, S., Nemalidinne, R., Chatzirodou, A., Venugopal, V., & Side, J. (2017). Implementation of tidal turbines in MIKE 3 and Delft3D models of Pentland Firth & Orkney Waters. Ocean and Coastal Management, 147, 21-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2017.04.015
The wave and tidal resource of Scotland
Neill, S. P., Vögler, A., Goward-Brown, A. J., Baston, S., Lewis, M. J., Gillibrand, P. A., …Woolf, D. K. (2017). The wave and tidal resource of Scotland. Renewable energy, 114A, 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2017.03.027
Research interests
Simon's research interests centre around renewable energy and the use of regional-scale hydrodynamic modelling to support human activities, understand their effects, and improve planning and policymaking.
His main area of expertise is around tidal energy, but he is keen to explore problems affecting other energy sources too, and other areas where energy and physical oceanography meet.
Simon is a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, with interests in the reproducibility of computational research and training for researchers in software best practice.
Postgraduate supervision
Regional-scale hydrodynamic modelling
Marine renewable energy: resource, environmental effects, inter-array interactions and connections with planning & policy.