Speaker: Geoff Blackman


Principal, Westslope Consulting, LLC

Mr. Blackman recently started his own company to provide radar consulting and technical services to the wind industry.

He works with developers who are seeking approval to construct wind farms that are on hold because they have the potential to interfere with radar and/or air traffic control operations. This work involves identifying impacts, outlining mitigation techniques and strategies, modeling, simulation, data analysis, optimization, and defining and testing software and/or hardware changes. Notable projects include that he has worked on include the Fire Island wind project off the coast of Anchorage, AK near Ted Stevens International Airport and the Shiloh II wind project near Travis AFB, CA.

Mr. Blackman has also provided support to Idaho National Laboratory at wind-radar intra-agency and JASON group meetings to further the understanding of impacts and existing and potential mitigation techniques, and to the Air Force during the ARSR-4 wind turbine interference and mitigation testing at King Mountain, TX.

He has over 13 years of systems engineering experience working with the Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Defense, where he was a subject matter expert on the ASR-11 and ARSR-4.

He is passionate about advancing radar and wind turbine technology to allow coexistence and the development of renewable energy.

Mr. Blackman has a Bachelor of Engineering with Honors in Electronic Engineering from the University of Leeds.