Dr. Buckham is the Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems at the University of Victoria. His research is centered in offshore mechanics with a focus on marine energy technologies, marine energy resource assessment and design of marine energy systems. Dr. Buckham is also the co-director of the Pacific Regional Institute for Marine Energy Discovery (PRIMED) – a marine energy commercialization hub at UVic that works to identify BC’s strategic marine energy sites, support community scale marine energy projects and demonstrate tidal and wave conversion devices in fully integrated hybrid renewable energy systems. The work of the PRIMED team is a central component of the UVic Accelerating Community Energy Transformations (ACET) initiative funded in 2023 by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund. Dr. Buckham’s contributions to research and training in the marine renewables sector have been recognized by the BC Innovation Council, Natural Resources Canada and Mitacs Canada. In his role as a University instructor he has been awarded the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science Teaching Excellence Award in 2006 and 2014, the Engineering Students’ Society Teaching Excellence Award in 2019, and was the 2018 recipient of Excellence in Teaching awards from both Engineers and Geoscientists of BC and Engineers Canada.
Co-Director, Pacific Regional Institute for Marine Energy Discovery