The 5th International Marine Debris Conference
Honolulu, Hawaii, March 20-25, 2011
Workshop "Hydrodynamics of Marine Debris"
March 20, 2011, 8am-5pm,
Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, Salon 3
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the record of the workshop via WebEx click here
Presentation files are available here.
Photos from the workshop are here.
To express interest in the follow-up white paper, please send emails to the conveners.
Conveners: Nikolai Maximenko (UH) and Kara Lavender Law (SEA)
Workshop support: Ron
Merrill, Oleg
Melnichenko, Jan
Hafner, Ali
Belmadani, and Audine
Laurian
8:00-8:20 (20min) Welcome, scene setup - Nikolai and Kara
OBSERVATIONS OF MARINE DEBRIS
8:20-8:50 (30min) Kara
Lavender Law (SEA)
Observations of Marine Debris: What We Know and What We
Need to Know
8:50-9:10 (20min) Mary Crowley
(Kaisei/Ocean Voyages Institute)
Around the world and two expeditions to the North Pacific
Gyre
LAGRANGIAN MEASUREMENTS OF OCEAN CIRCULATION AND FATE OF MARINE DEBRIS
9:10-9:55 (45min) Luca Centurioni (Scripps
Institution of Oceanography)
Lagrangian projects and their results
10:00-10:30 (30min) Coffee Break
10:30-11:00 (30min) Andrew Sybrandy (Pacific
Gyre)
Calibrated Lagrangian Drifters
MARINE
DEBRIS IN THE WATER COLUMN (Vertical processes)
11:00-11:30 (30min) Giora
Proskurowski (University of Washington/SEA)
The impact of wind stress on the concentration of plastic debris in the open
ocean
11:30-13:00 (1h30min) Break for Lunch
LAND AS A DEBRIS SOURCE AND SINK
13:00-13:20 (20min) Doug Woodring (Kaisei)
Global Ocean Alert System - Focusing on the World’s
River Mouth Outflows as a
13:20-13:40 (20min) Chris
Pallister (Gulf of Alaska Keeper)
Shoreline Capture of Northern Gulf of Alaska Marine Debris
13:40-14:00 (20min) Scott
Wilson (Centre for Environmental Management, Australia)
Tides as a major influencing factor to shoreline
debris deposition
MODELING MOTION OF MARINE DEBRIS
14:00-14:45 (45min) James
Potemra (University of Hawaii/IPRC)
Numerical Modeling with Application to Tracking Marine Debris
14:45-15:15 (30min) Coffee break
15:15-15:45 (30min) Kathleen Dohan (Earth
& Space Research)
Time Varying OSCAR Surface Currents in the Garbage Patch
Regions
15:45-16:05 (20min) Jan Hafner
(University of Hawaii/IPRC)
Diagnostic surface currents SCUD and application to marine
debris
16:05-16:40 (35min) Nikolai
Maximenko (University of Hawaii/IPRC)
Synthesis
of modeling and observations of marine debris and steps towards
understanding global balance
Last update March 30, 2011