UXO in the Marine Environment at Oceanology International

SUT UXO Special Interest Group – Session at Oceanology International 2024.

1330-1700hrs | South Gallery Room 9, Excel, London

This event is free to attend but booking is essential. Priority will be given to SUT Members.

Welcome by Session chair: Dorthe R. Erbs-Hansen – Ørsted Wind Power

Jack Brighouse and Dr. Sara Lise Underhay: Enhancing magnetic surveys for unexploded ordnance detection: Insights and best practices from collaborative industry research – ALM Geophysics and Deep BV.

Wino Snip: A proportional approach of the UXO risk at sea

Dr. Peter Menzel: NO mobilization of UXO – A review of 10 years of Research

Gunnar Møller: The joint effort by Navies to reduce the risk from UXO in the Baltic Sea – Royal Swedish Navy

Sei-Him Cheong: Comparison of high-order detonations and low-order deflagration methodologies for underwater unexploded ordnance (UXO) disposal – National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
Co-authors are: Paul Lepper, Stephen Robinson, Jakob Tougaard, Emily Griffiths, Lian Wang and John Hartley

Prof. Dr. Edmund Maser: Toxicological risks from sea dumped munitions – environmental burden after blast-in-place operations (Online/video) – Institute of Toxicology and Pharmacology for Natural Scientists University Medical School Schleswig-Holstein Campus Kiel

Discussion, Q&A and networking