Monday 22 April 2024

St Angelo Hall, Malta Maritime Museum

10:00-12:00

Registration

12:00-13:00

Coffee break

Workshop 1

Underwater Hazardous Material in Seas and Oceans

13:00-13:15

Welcome Address

Prof Alfred Vella – Rector, University of Malta 

13:15-13:30

Introduction

Prof Jacek Bełdowski

13:30-14:00

Explore, Record & Share – Malta’s Mapping of its territorial waters.

Prof Timmy Gambin

14:00-14:30

Coffee break

14:30-14:50

North Sea – results of the DISARM project.

Dr Tine Missiaen

14:50-15:10

Baltic Cold War – and dumped chemical munitions.

Prof Jerzy Bolałek

15:10-15:30

Chemical munitions in the Baltic – current research

Prof Jacek Bełdowski

15:30-15:50

An overview of dumped munitions in the North Atlantic

Dr Kieran O’Driscoll

15:50-16:10

Mission Mjøsa – how to handle dumped munitions in a lake.

Dr Øyvind Ødegård

16:10-17:30

Discussion

Tuesday 23 April 2024

St Angelo Hall, Malta Maritime Museum

Workshop 2

Detection and identification of munitions and other hazardous objects

09:00-09:45

Detection Methods – finding and identifying dumped munitions.

Dr. Miłosz Grabowski

09:45-10:05

3D Sub-bottom – detection of munitions under the sea floor

Prof Tine Missiaen

10:05-10:25

Detection and identification of munitions in the sea – towards autonomy

Prof. Øyvind Ødegård

10:25-11:10

CMRE approach to Autonomous Naval Mine Warfare

Yan Pailhas (CMRE MCM Department Head)

11:10-11:40

Techniques for detecting munitions in side scan sonar data

Prof Margo Edwards

11:40-13:00

Coffee break

Workshop 3

Pollution of environment

13:00-13:45

Chemical analytical methods to identify munition constituents.

Prof Paula Vanninen

13:45-14:15

Sea-disposed munitions in Hawaii

Prof Margo Edwards

14:15-14:45

UK – wrecks, munition dumping and safety – the impact of seabed use.

Prof Adam Cumming

14:45-15:15

Management of Polluting Wrecks – the Malta approach

Maja Sausmekat

15:15-16:00

Discussion

Wednesday 24 April 2024

St Angelo Hall, Malta Maritime Museum

Workshop 4

Underwater hazardous objects and climate change

09:00-09:45

Corrosion, degradation, sensitivity

Prof Jacek Bełdowski

10:00-10:45

Wreck breakdown and Ageing – a growing problem for tidal areas

Prof Adam Cumming

11:00-11:30

Use of the in-situ corrosion measurements to ascertain rates of decay on wreck sites.

Zdenka Vrgoč

11:30-12:00

War wrecks and their environmental impact

Matthias Brenner

12:00-12:30

Impacts of climate change on ocean dumped munitions: a modelling approach.

Dr Kieran O’Driscoll

12:30-13:15

Coffee break

Workshop 5

Impact on Ecosystem

13:15-14:00

Impact of munitions on marine organisms

Dr Matthias Brenner

14:00-14:30

Freshwater munitions – Dumping, recovery, and the impact of river flow

Prof Adam Cumming

14:30-15:00

Using DNA technologies to monitor marine ecosystems in response to anthropogenic influences.

Emma Bolton

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-16:30

Ecology – fragility of shipwreck ecosystems

Dr Julian Evans

16:00-17:00

Analysis of Biota and next steps

Prof Paula Vanninen

17:00-17:30

Discussion

Thursday 25 April 2024

St Angelo Hall, Malta Maritime Museum

Workshop 6

Cooperation and funding opportunities

09:00-09:30

JPI Oceans Munitions in the Sea and EU opportunities

Thorsten Kiefer – JPI Oceans

09:30-10:00

NATO STO – a mechanism for joint work with relevant examples

Prof Adam Cumming

10:00-10:30

Basecamp Research

Emma Bolton

10:30-11:00

CMRE UXO Testbed Site: Planning, Implementation, Demonstrations”

Per Arne Sletner (CMRE Engineering and Information Technology Department)

11:00-11.30

Coffee break

Participant Workshop:

Information sessions

11:30-11:40

R3Vox Ltd

Jens R Steenstrup

11:40-1l:50

Selected aspects of activities related to the dumped munitions in the Baltic Sea based on the competencies of Maritime Research Center – OBR CTM S.A. Poland

Bozena Kowalewska, Tomasz Bajer

11:50-12:00

SafeLane Global and the Marine UXO industry

Andrew Lonsdale

12:00-12:10

Fisheries Research Unit – Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture

Kelly Camilleri 

12:10-12:20

Engineering Wonder and making Humans Aquatic

Phil Short

12:20-12:30

How contaminated is fish from regions of the German North Sea with energetic compounds?

Dr Jennifer Strehse

12:30-13:30

Coffee break

13:30-15:00

Discussion regarding future collaboration.

Friday 26 April 2024

St Angelo Hall, Malta Maritime Museum

Round Table Discussions

09:00-10:00

Climate change and dumped munitions

10:00-11:00

UXO and the marine environment

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-12:30

The monitoring of UXO and dumped munitions

12:30-13:30

The detection, identification, and classification of UXO/dumped munitions.

13:30-14:30

New tools for munition detection – CTM participants

14:30-15:00

Final remarks and official closure

19:00pm

Closing reception at the Malta Maritime Museum