ACEP 鶹er Spotlight: Jeremy Kasper, AHERC Program Director
Jeremy Kasper
Dr. Jeremy Kasper is a 鶹 Assistant Professor with the 鶹 Fairbanks Institute of Northern Engineering, Alaska Center for Energy and Power, and is currently the Director of the Alaska Hydrokinetic Energy 鶹 Center (AHERC). He holds a PhD in Oceanography from UAF. Prior to his current appointments, Dr. Kasper was a postdoctoral investigator with the Department of Physical Oceanography at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Dr. Kasper has multiple on-going research projects including: 1) an in-situ and modeling based assessment of wave energy in the near-shore zone of Yakutat, Alaska; 2) an assessment of river borne debris, riverine hydrodynamics, debris mitigation strategies and the potential for fisheries interactions with in-river hydrokinetic energy generation devices in Alaska’s Tanana River; 3) a long-term oceanographic monitoring program in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea; 4) a pilot study to develop low-cost GPS “drifters” capable of measuring small scale sea ice deformation and in the event of an oil spill, tracking oiled ice; 5) a numerical modeling study to understand the impact of immobile land-fast ice on nutrient supply to Arctic shelf environments; and 5) a project to expand UAF’s capacity to conduct river- and sea-bed morphology measurements to understand suspended sediment transport resulting from processes such as coastal and river bank erosion.
Professional Preparation
• PhD in Oceanography at the 鶹 Fairbanks in Fall 2010
• BA in Physics at Reed College Spring in 1999
Photo: Jeremy Kasper. Photo courtesy T. Paris, UAF.