Geoff Blackman
Founder, Owner, and Principal @Westslope Consulting
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WORK HISTORY
Founder, Owner, and Principal @Westslope Consulting
Consults with the American Clean Power Association regarding wind-radar policy, process, and technical issues.• Served as a subject matter expert in over 20 FAA safety risk management panels involving radar-related hazards because of wind development.• Served as a subject matter expert on the Cannon AFB Alternate Analysis to identify wind turbine-radar mitigation.• Supported the DOE’s Wind Turbine Radar Interference Mitigation Working Group to develop a series of webinars for industry during the COVID-19 pandemic.• Worked hand-in-hand with the DHS to identify and site in-fill radar mitigation and draft agreements to resolve border security concerns.• Supported the United States Coast Guard’s Project Evergreen as a radar subject matter expert.• On behalf of the wind developer, supported the first exercise modeling the impacts of wind turbines on Relocatable Over-the-Horizon Radar working with the United States Navy and MIT/LL.• Provided expert witness testimony relating to impacts to United States and Canadian weather radar.• Supported the DoD, DOE, DHS, and FAA Interagency Field Test and Evaluation.• Served as Radar Working Group lead under the first Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the United States Transportation Command and three wind developers, successfully improving DASR radar performance over approximately 600 wind turbines near Travis AFB. This work included implementing and validating a proprietary Westslope Consulting modeling method for predicting the impacts of wind energy projects, integrating two adjacent radar sites into STARS, several iterative optimization changes, third-party evaluation of wind farm mitigation, and flight testing.• Served as the wind industry representative for the DHS radar and wind turbines interaction modeling tool.• Served as a technical advisor for wind developer in negotiations of the first Memorandum of Agreement with the DoD and United States Navy.
EDUCATION
University of Leeds
BEng (Hons), Electronic Engineering with a concentration in Microwave Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT GEOFF BLACKMAN
Provides radar consulting and technical services to developers of offshore and land-based…
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