Industry partner in the UWA-led TIDE Research Hub — an ARC-funded research collaboration applying digital engineering to offshore energy infrastructure, with particular focus on offshore wind.
TIDE (Transforming energy Infrastructure through Digital Engineering) is a multi-year Industrial Transformation Research Hub funded by the Australian Research Council. Led by the University of Western Australia and hosted at the UWA Oceans Graduate School, the hub combines expertise in oceanography, hydrodynamics, geotechnics, marine structures, mathematics, statistics, and data science.
UWA leads the hub, with partners including the University of Wollongong (NIASRA, statistics and data science) and a consortium of industry collaborators contributing both funding and in-kind support.
The work develops new digital-engineering methods to make offshore energy infrastructure more reliable and cost-effective. While the hub spans the broader offshore energy sector, particular attention is given to offshore wind — where transferable advances in geotechnics, structural analysis, and data-driven design directly support floating and fixed-bottom development.
For SolidGround, involvement in TIDE has advanced our understanding of how wave-equation modelling affects our seismic inversion.
- Lead
- University of Western Australia (Oceans Graduate School)
- Partners
- UWA · UOW (NIASRA)
- Type
- ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub (ITRH)
- Themes
- Digital engineering · Geotechnics · Marine structures · Data science
- Seismic inversion for offshore wind: implications of near-surface soils on AVO approximationsMutual, E., Dalgaard, E., Ross, R., Watson, P., Bransby, F., Stuyts, B. & Lebrec, U. · ISFOG 2025 — 5th International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics, Nantes, France (2025)
- Seismic inversion in offshore wind: implications of complex near-surface soils on AVO approximationsMutual, E., Dalgaard, E., Ross, R., Watson, P., Bransby, F., Stuyts, B. & Lebrec, U. · 86th EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition, Toulouse, France (2025)
- Seismic inversion for offshore wind: implications of hard and soft soils on AVO approximationsMutual, E., Ross, R., Dalgaard, E., Watson, P., Bransby, F., Stuyts, B. & Lebrec, U. · 1st EAGE/SUT Workshop on Integrated Site Characterisation for Offshore Wind in Asia Pacific, Perth, Australia (2024)
- Seismic inversion for offshore wind: implications of near-surface soil physics on AVO approximationsMutual, E., Dalgaard, E., Stuyts, B., Ross, R., Bransby, F. & Watson, P. · 1st EAGE/SUT Workshop on Integrated Site Characterisation for Offshore Renewable Energy, Boston, USA (2024)
- Integrated and data-science-informed seabed characterisation for optimised foundation designO'Neill, M. P., Osuchowski, A. L., Cai, Y., Bransby, M. F., Watson, P. G., Gaudin, C., Doherty, J., Dalgaard, E. & Ross, R. · Ocean Engineering, Article 115095 (2023)
- Predicting select geotechnical sediment properties at a carbonate site through inversion of 2D post-stack multichannel seismic dataOsuchowski, A. L., Bransby, M. F., Watson, P. G., Dalgaard, E. & Ross, R. · Offshore Site Investigation Geotechnics 9th International Conference, London, UK. Paper SUT-OSIG-23-162 (2023)