Sarah McElman, a candidate for Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering, will be defending her dissertation titled "Quantifying Metocean Extreme Parameters for Offshore Wind Design and Operation in the United States." Zoom meeting: For the Zoom link and password, please contact Sarah McElman at sarah.mcelman@maine.edu.

Chayton Boucher, a candidate for Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry, will be defending his dissertation titled "Evaluating the activity and acid character of tungsten oxide nanoparticles for the catalytic production of platform chemicals from biomass resources." Zoom meeting: For the Zoom link and password, please contact Chayton Boucher at chayton.boucher@maine.edu.

Aénor Codjo, a candidate for Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, will be defending her thesis titled "Development of an experimental framework for studying droplet-laden porous disk wake in a newly built wind tunnel." For the Zoom link and password, please contact  Aénor Codjo at aenor.codjo@maine.edu.