| Date | Monday 22 April 2024 |
| Venue | St Angelo Hall, Malta Maritime Museum |
| 10:00-12:00 | Registration |
| 12:0-13:00 | Coffeebreak |
| 13:00-17:00 | Underwater Hazardous Material in Seas and Oceans |
| 13:00-13:15 | Welcome Address TBC |
| 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 | Coffeebreak |
| 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 Kieren O’Driscoll |
| 15:50-16:10 | Mission Mjøsa – how to handle dumped munitions in a lake. Øyvind Ødegård |
| 16:10-17:00 | Discussion |
| Date | Tuesday 23 April 2024 |
| Venue | St Angelo Hall, Malta Maritime Museum |
| 09:00-11:40 | 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 |
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| 10:05-10:25 | Detection and identification of munitions in the sea – towards autonomy Prof. Øyvind Ødegård |
| 10:25-11:10 11:10-11:40 | La Spezia – testing ground and opportunities Prof Sandro Carniel Techniques for detecting munitions in side scan sonar data Prof Margo Edwards |
| 11:40-13:00 | Coffeebreak |
| 13:00-16:00 | 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 Dr. Maja Sausmekat |
| 15:15-16:00 | Discussion |
| Date | Wednesday 24 April 2024 |
| Venue | St Angelo Hall, Malta Maritime Museum |
| 09:00-12:00 | Underwater hazardous objects and climate change |
| 09:00-09:45 | Corrosion, degradation, sensitivity Prof Jacek Bełdowski |
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| 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 |
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| 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 Kieren O’Driscoll |
| 12:30-13:15 | Coffeebreak |
| 13:15-17:30 | 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 |
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| 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 |
| Date | Thursday 25 April 2024 |
| Venue | St Angelo Hall, Malta Maritime Museum |
| 09:00-11:30 | Cooperation and funding opportunities |
| 09:00-09:30 | JPI Oceans Munitions in the Sea and EU opportunities Pierre Francesco Moretti |
| 9:30-10:00 | NATO STO – a mechanism for joint work with relevant examples Prof Adam Cumming |
| 10:00-10:30 | Basecamp Research Emma Bolton |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | La Spezia – testing ground and cooperation possibilities Prof. Sandro Carniel |
| 10:50-11:20 | Coffee break |
| 11:20-15:20 | Information sessions 10-minute slots for participants to showcase their own work. |
| 11:20-1l:30 | Slot 1 |
| 11:40-11:50 | Slot 2 |
| 12:00-12:10 | Slot 3 |
| 12:20-12:30 | Slot 4 |
| 12:40-12:50 | Slot 5 |
| 12:50-13:00 | |
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| 13:00-13:30 | Coffee break |
| 13:30-15:00 | Discussion regarding future collaboration. |
| Date | Friday 26 April 2024 |
| Venue | St Angelo Hall, Malta Maritime Museum |
| 09:00-15:00 | Round Table Discussions |
| 09:00-10:00 | Climate change and dumped munitions |
| 09:00-10:00 | Alternatively: Workshop on sinar data processing, separate registration |
| 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 |
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Saturday 27 April 2024
Site visits
National War Museum, Fort St Elmo
