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INFOMAR Seminar 2007
The Geological Survey of
Ireland (GSI) and the Marine Institute (MI) will showcase INFOMAR, the
successor programme to the Irish National Seabed Survey, at a seminar
on Tuesday, March 13th 2007, at the GSI, Beggars Bush, Haddington Road,
Dublin 4.
The programme will include
a mix of project updates, survey plans and associated projects and research
talks.
INFOMAR's activities and the
near-shore data being collected are of great strategic importance to the
Irish state.
The Seminar is FREE and will
run all day from 10am with coffee available from 9.30.
All with an interest in the
Marine Sector are welcome. The programme is presented below (or click
here for
a downloadable pdf version). For any additional queries please contact
Enda Gallagher (by e-mail)
or telephone at ++353 1 6782834.
Seminar
2007 Programme
* Change to seminar Programme
- A talk by Xavier Monteys on Seabed Classification scheduled for 11.50
has been replaced by a fascinating talk on the identification of shipwrecks
by Stuart Bennett.
Peter Heffernan
- Marine Institute
"Welcome & Introduction!" |
10.00 |
THEME:
REVIEW 2006
Koen Verbruggen - GSI
"INFOMAR - an Overview / Plans 2007 - 2008" |
10.05 |
Tommy Furey
- Marine Institute
"INFOMAR 06 - Integrated Mapping and Filling the Gaps" |
10.30 |
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Nigel Townsend
- Tenix LADS Corporation
"LIDAR: Early Results from Bantry, Dunmanus & Galway Bays"
Bill Collins - Quester
Tangent Corporation & Xavier Monteys - GSI
"Multibeam Seabed Classification: Research & Industry Applications"
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10.55 |
| Questions,
then Coffee |
11.30 |
THEME:
INTO THE FUTURE.....
Stuart Bennett - GSI & Trinity College, Dublin
"Mapping Ireland's shipwrecks using data from INSS & INFOMAR"
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11.50 |
Archie Donovan
- GSI
"Data Release, Access and HEA Superhighway" |
12.10 |
Peter
Croker - Petroleum Affairs Division, DCMNR
"Ireland's Continental Shelf Delineation Project: a status report" |
12.30 |
| Questions,
then Lunch |
12.50 |
THEME:
RESEARCH SUPPORTED BY INFOMAR/INSS DATA
Andy Wheeler - GSI
"The geology of cold-water coral carbonate mounds (IODP307, ESF-CARBONATE
& the Coral-InfoMar Atlas)" |
2.00 |
Xavier Garcia
- DIAS
"INSS/INFOMAR Integration of Datasets: EM technology." Support
from SFI and PIP" |
2.25 |
Paul Dunlop
- University of Ulster, Coleraine
"Reconstructing the configuration and dynamics of the last British
Irish Ice Sheet on the Irish Continental Shelf" |
2.45 |
Jason Clarke
- Galway & Mayo Institute of Technology
"Habitat Mapping and biodiversity studies within the Biologically
Sensitive Area" |
3.10 |
Edward Thurman
- University of Limerick
"Automated Optimisation of Simultaneous Multibeam and Sidescan
Sonar Seabed Mapping" |
3.20 |
| Questions,
then Coffee |
3.30 |
THEME:
RESEARCH - TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Mike Cunningham - Southampton Oceanography Centre
"Sediment dynamics and slope stability along the Celtic Margin
(northern Bay of Biscay)" |
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Janine Guinan
- Marine Institute/NUIG
"Using the INSS and ROV-based video data to predict the potential
distribution of cold-water coral habitat" |
3.50 |
Jonathan
White - Marine Institute
" Mapping European Seabed Habitats (MESH) - Surveying, Sampling,
Analysing and Mapping" |
4.10 |
| Questions
and Public Forum |
4.30 |
RECEPTION: 5-7pm,
"The 51" Haddington Road. SPONSORED BY IMAR SURVEY
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