Power to the Women For Women’s History Month, NREL Celebrates the Powerful Women of Water Power first of two in a Women’s History Month
So, for Women’s History Month 2022, we’re taking a look at six NREL women who are, in fact,interested in renewable energy technologies, specifically water power technologies. We wanted to know: How did you get into science? What barriers did you have to overcome? And what do you do now? Here, three of the six give us their answers.When I was about 10 years old, I watched a documentary on global warming.
When I started at NREL, I was an administrator. But at one of the staff awards, I happened to be sitting next to a gentleman who was high up in management with the field-testing team, and I said, “Hey, I’d love to climb a wind turbine. When can I get out there and do that?” That translated into “Sara wants to be a technician. How can we transition her out to the field?” I’ve been doing it for 7.5 years now.I was very lucky that most people supported me throughout my career.
There were quite a few engineers in my family, so I didn’t even realize, going into mechanical engineering, that women were underrepresented in the field. No one ever said, “Oh, you’re doing really wellfor a woman in this field.” It wasn’t until later, going through my undergraduate and doctoral classes, that I had to face the fact that only about 10% of the student population in my major were women.Being a woman, it’s always a bit different. You must figure out your own way of doing things.
I’m a postdoctoral researcher in NREL’s marine energy group, focusing on energy generated from rivers, tides, and ocean currents. Mostly, I work in numerical modeling. For example, I’ve been taking some of the tools that were developed by the Wind Energy group, specificallyThere are a lot of similarities between wind and water turbines. But there’s some additional physics that needs to be accounted for, like the blade interactions with the water.
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