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MIREMAR: Minimizing Risks for the Environment in Marine Ammunition Removal in the Baltic and North Sea

NABU, GRD, GSM: Conference Neumünster, Germany, 16. - 18. November 2010

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MIREMAR - Lectures, Presentations, Results of Workshops, Media-Information

The Results of the Conference 2010 in Neumünster / Germany

 

International Conference on Minimizing Risks for the Environment in Marine Ammunition Removal in the Baltic and North Sea (MIREMAR)

The conference was held from

16th to 18th November 2010
in
Neumünster, Germany

After theme sessions on Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th November (e.g., impact on biota, conventional treatment by blasting, recovery and removal of conventional ammunition, chemical warfare, political dimension) practical demonstrations, workshops and an excursion were offered on Thursday 18th November 2010.

If you have any questions, please contact Info@miremar.de

 

MIREMAR

Objectives | Co-operating Partners | Financial Support

OBJECTIVES

Large quantities of conventional ammunition (explosives) and chemical warfare have been deployed or dumped into Baltic and North Seas during and after World Wars I and II. It is still unclear what risks they pose to humans and the environment. The aim of the conference is to give an overview of the situation and actual developments in treatment of underwater unexploded ordnance. Identification of best practice and best available technique is a central objective of the conference. Workshops on the third day may help to establish a network of actors in order to initiate research, development or trials of new technologies.

CO-OPERATING PARTNERS
State Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Control, Schleswig-Holstein	Marine Services, UXB International, Canada
International Dialogue on Underwater Munitions, Canada

FINANCIAL SUPPORT: If you wish to become a sponsor of the conference please contact sponsoring@miremar.de

 

MIREMAR: Tuesday, 16th November 2010

PROGRAMME: Registration | Introduction | Conventional Ammunition | Welcome Adresses | Detection | Dispersion of critical Substances

REGISTRATION | INTRODUCTION
8.00	REGISTRATION
TIME	AUTHORS	TITLE
9.00	Monika Krivickaite, Walther-Schücking-Institute for International Law, Kiel / Germany:	Legal Aspects of Conventional and Chemical warfare dumped in the sea
9.30	Gunnar Möller, COM Mine Warfare Data Center (C MWDC), 4th Naval Warfare Flottilla, Berga / Sweden	The More we know, the Worse it gets – on the Situation of Conventional Ammunition in the Baltic Sea
10.00 - 10.30	COFFEE BREAK

TOPIC I: DETONATION OF CONVENTIONAL AMMUNITION
TIME	AUTHORS	TITLE
10.30	Lodewijk de Waard, Royal Netherlands Navy, Diving and Ordnance Disposal Group René Dekeling, Defense Materiel Organisation & Department of Transportation, Public Works and Water Management, The Hague / The Netherlands	An overview of disposal of ammunition in the Dutch section of the North Sea: present practice and development of safety measures
10.50	Sven Koschinski, Marine Zoologist, Nehmten / Germany	Impact of Underwater Detonations on Marine Vertebrates
11.10	Jens Sternheim, State Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Control, Kiel / Germany	Removal of Conventional Ammunition in WW II Ammunition Dump Site „Heidkate“ (Kiel Bight) – Progress and Mitigation
11.30	Tanja Grießmann, Institute of Structural Analysis, University of Hannover / Germany	Bubble curtains as a protective measure for marine animals in theory and practice
11.50	Edgar Schmidtke, WTD71 – Research Department for Underwater Acoustics and Marine Geophysics, Eckernförde / Germany	Damping of Shock Waves from Sea Mine Blasts to protect Marine Mammals – Results from Bubble Curtain Trials in Heidkate 2008 - 2010
12.10	Tiina Salonen, Environmental Manager Finland, Nord-Stream AG, Zug / Switzerland	Nord Stream`s environmental mitigation & monitoring during munitions clearance in the Gulf of Finland

WELCOME ADDRESSES | DISCUSSION
12.30	Dr. Johannes Merck, Presidium Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU), Berlin
12.45	Volker Dornquast, State Secretary for the Interior Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel
		Due to time-related restraints the welcome addresses are not at the beginning.
13.00 – 14.30	LUNCH BREAK

TOPIC II: DETECTION
TIME	AUTHORS	TITLE
14.30	Luigi Alcaro, Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Rome /Italy	Electro-Acoustical Survey of Mean Apulian Harbours (Italy) to Find Dumped Ammunitions: a Proposal of New Methodology
14.50	Thomas Wever, Federal Office of Defense Technology and Procurement, Koblenz / Germany	Sediment Information in North and Baltic Seas – Relevant for Ammunition Detection
15.10	Uwe Wichert, State Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Control, Kiel / Germany	Problems in Locating Historic Dumping Sites – Examples from the Baltic Sea
15.30 - 16.00	COFFEE BREAK

TOPIC III: DISPERSION OF CRITICAL SUBSTANCES, SEDIMENT
TIME	AUTHORS	TITLE
16.00	Frederic Francken, MUMM, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels / Belgium (Co-authors: Kevin Ruddick and Patrick Roose)	Dispersion of Critical Substances from Dumped Ammunition in Marine Sediments on Paardenmarktsite, Belgium
16.20	James Barton, Underwater Ordnance Recovery Inc., Norfolk / USA	Ecotoxicology of Substances from Dumped Ammunition at Isla Vieques / Puerto Rico
16.40	Patrick McLaren, GeoSea Consulting, Brentwood Bay / Canada	Minimizing Risk by Understanding Your Environment: or “Why Use STA® (Sediment Trend Analysis)?” – a Case Study from the Lac Saint Pierre Experimental Firing Range, Quebec
17.10 - 17.30	DISCUSSION TOPIC I - III

 

MIREMAR: Wednesday, 17th November 2010

PROGRAMME: Press Conference | Conventional Ammunition | Chemical Warfare | Political Dimension

PRESS CONFERENCE | TOPIC IV: RECOVERY OF CONVENTIONAL AMMUNITION
9.30 - 10.00	PRESS CONFERENCE Press Officer Kathrin Klinkusch, NABU, Berlin
TIME	AUTHORS	TITLE
8.30	Christel Meert, Royal Military Academy, Dept of Chemistry, Brussels / Belgium (Co-author: Francis Kerckhof)	Analysis of a Munition-like Item Retrieved from the North Sea
8.50	Franz Eder, ANT AG, Lübeck / Germany	Recovery of conventional Marine Ammunition using Salvage Robots and Water Abrasive Suspension Jet Cutting (See also: Practical Demonstration on 3rd Day of the Conference)
9.10	Frank Bargmann, Séché global solutions / UTM GmbH, Lübeck / Germany	Recovery and Safe Transport of Chemical and Conventional Marine Ammunition Using Salvage Robots and Explosion Proof Reactors
9.30	Fritz Pfeiffer, Office for Environmental Geology & Security Research, Marburg / Germany	Photolytic Treatment of Explosives using Sunlight, a possible Solution for Heidkate Ammunition Dump?
9.50	Erika Brandenburg, Concurrent Technologies Corp. Jacksonville / USA	Parameters for Selecting a Munitions Recovery Technology
10.10 - 10.50	COFFEE BREAK

TOPIC V: CHEMICAL WARFARE
10.50	John Hart, Chemical and Biological Security Project, Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme SIPRI Solna /Sweden	An Overview of Historical, Political and Environmental Aspects of Chemical Warfare
11.15	Jonathan Mills, OPCW, The Hague, The Netherlands	Sea Dumped Chemical Weapons - The Scope and Purpose of the Chemical Weapons Convention
11.40	Thomas Stock, Dynasafe Germany GmbH, Mülheim / Germany	Destruction of Old Chemical Weapons – Technologies under Application
12.00	Luigi Alcaro, Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Rome /Italy	Environmental Effects of Chemical Ammunitions Dumped in the Southern Adriatic Sea (Italy)
12.20	Nadezda Medvedeva, Scientific Research Centre for Ecological Safety Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg / Russia (Co-authors: Yulia Polyak, Tatyana Zaytseva, Irina Kuzikova)	Microbial responses to chemical weapons dumped in the Baltic Sea
12.40	Vadim T. Paka, Atlantic Branch, P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kaliningrad, Russia	Clean-up of the Bornholm CW Dumpsite: Towards the Optimum Decision
13.00	LUNCH BREAK
14.30	Margo Edwards, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu,Hawaii / USA (Co-authors: Roy Wilkens, Christopher Kelley, Eric DeCarlo, Kathryn Macdonald, Sonia Garcia, Michael Van Woerkom, Zachary Payne, Vilma Dupra, Matt Rosete, Miya Cox, Stacey Fineran, Weixi Zheng, J. C. King and Geoff Carton)	Locating and Evaluating Sea Disposed Munitions - Examples from the Hawaii Undersea Military Munitions Assessment (HUMMA) Project

TOPIC VI: POLITICAL DIMENSION
TIME	AUTHORS	TITLE
14.50	Terrance P. Long (keynote speaker), Chairman of the International Dialogues on Underwater Munitions, USA	An International Approach to Underwater Munitions
15.30	COFFEE BREAK
16.00	Sebastian Unger, OSPAR Commission, London / UK	Conventional and chemical Munitions in the North-East Atlantic – the Approach of the OSPAR Commission
16.20	Minna Pyhälä, HELCOM, Helsinki / Finland	Activities of the Helsinki Commission with regards to Chemical Munitions dumped in the Baltic Sea
16.40	Kim Detloff, Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union NABU, Berlin / Germany	Marine Ammunition in the Sight of NGOs
17.00 - 17.00	GENERAL DISCUSSION

 

MIREMAR: Thursday, 18th November 2010

PROGRAMME: Demonstrations | Workshops | Excursions

DEMONSTRATIONS / WORKSHOPS / EXCURSION

9.00 - PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATIONS (outside of the conference building)

• Water Abrasive Suspension (WAS) cutting (ANT Applied New Technology AG, Lübeck/Germany)

Workshops

10.00

DATABASES
Good environmental information of a site has a large influence on search success, information on condition of shells and critical substances and influence on the marine environment. Site chemistry (and changes thereof) and substances involved are an important factor in monitoring operations. Databases can provide such information. Further, data on protected areas or species can be included into databases. How does existing position data have to be preprocessed? How can existing databases be combined? What can be achieved by filtering of data? How can environmental issues be integrated into existing priority systems? These and other questions can be addressed during the workshop.

COMBINATION OF TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS, FROM DETECTION TO REMOVAL
Best available treatment technique may require concerted action by a number of actors. Off-the-shelf techniques barely exist. Underwater vehicles, sensors, cutting, recovery, destruction and/or remediaton techniques must be compatible in order to get the best results. This workshop provides the opportunity to meet and discuss technical details of how different systems could be integrated into one strategy.

MITIGATION OF SHOCK WAVES FROM DETONATIONS
Shock waves from underwater blasts are a danger for marine mammals, diving birds and fish. However, in some cases it may for safety reasons not be possible to avoid detonations. One method to reduce the shock wave of detonations is the use of bubble curtains. How can the efficiency of a bubble curtain be improved? Are there other methods such as directing the energy? Can the elasticity of the sea-floor surface or structural modifications on an electrochemical basis be used as a damping element? - If you have an interest in physics of underwater detonations, this may be your workshop.

CHEMICAL DMM – STILL A WMD THREAT?
Due to their toxic fillings DMM do not become inert as time passes by. But is there any realistic threat as these compositions are of special interest to certain organisations?
Do really old sea-dumped DMM´s retain the capability to act as WMD? Are they still applicable to smaller targets or even single event point attacs? As the combination with conventional IED´s is feasible, what is to be anticipated as a result? What knowledge is available? What are the requirements for cladestine recovery, reclamation and use of chemical DMM payloads? What is the political impact with respect to critical infrastructures, high value targets and reconnaissance and countermeasures?

10.15 – 13.45 EXCURSION

Excursion to Explosive Ordnance Disposal „Groß Nordsee” near Kiel Canal.

17.00 END OF CONFERENCE

 

Organizers and Participants

Organisations - who is who

SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS

Sven Koschinski, Ingo Ludwichowski, Kim Detloff & Nikola Vagt


SYMPOSIUM HOSTED BY

Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU Schleswig-Holstein)
Färberstr. 51, 24534 Neumünster

Society for the Conservation of Marine Mammals GSM
Kieler Straße 2, 25451 Quickborn

Society for Dolphin Conservation Germany GRD,
Kornwegerstr. 37, 81375 München

 

 

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