He directs the Bio-Acoustics & Flow Laboratory, an accredited multi-disciplinary R&D laboratory, addressing a broad range of engineering and ecological issues, with an emphasis on environmental monitoring and risk assessment for hydropower, wind, marine, and hydrokinetic energy systems. He has developed several licensed technologies in acoustic telemetry, environmental sensing, and energy storage.

Disciplines and Skills
Advanced sensing systems for renewable energy and earth systems
Energy harvesting including renewable energy for large-scale energy production and powering sensing systems
Underwater acoustics and acoustic telemetry
Ecohydraulics
Environmental monitoring and risk assessment for renewable energy systems
Bio-acoustics
Fish friendly turbine design and evaluation