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Information on Upcoming/Past Seminars, Conferences, and Workshops
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Workshop
on the Status and Applications for Acoustic Monitoring of Marine
Mammals, November 17-19, 2009.
The MMS will
conduct a workshop for the purpose of identifying available
software and hardware systems for passive acoustic monitoring
(PAM) and active acoustic monitoring (AAM) and for learning more
about their applicability, costs, and limitations. In
particular, MMS wants to know more about their effectiveness in
detecting marine mammals in the vicinity of offshore operations
(e.g., seismic surveys, pile driving, etc.) and assessing the
potential impacts to marine mammals from those operations. PAM
systems merely listen to the sounds made by vocalizing mammals,
whereas AAM systems work more like sonar to identify the
presence of these animals, which may not be vocalizing, in an
area of offshore operations. The workshop will also review the
most recent developments in acoustic monitoring technology and
equipment as well as those systems now in use. Finally, the
workshop will briefly examine other emerging marine mammal
monitoring technologies currently available or in development
(e.g., radar, unmanned aerial aircraft).
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Alaska Marine Science Symposium, January 2010.
This
symposium will provide a forum for marine scientists and local
communities to present
information on the changing marine environment in Alaska,
provide a venue for
MMS’s Alaska OCS Region’s environmental studies research for the
Arctic and Bering Seas, and provide a forum for the
Alaska OCS Region’s scientists and Principal
Investigators to communicate with other researchers who are conducting
similar scientific studies within the Alaska OCS or
adjoining areas of the Alaska marine ecosystem.
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The 10th International Marine Environmental Modeling Seminar (IMEMS 2010), March 16-18, 2010.
Co‑founded
by the MMS and SINTEF of Norway, the annual IMEMS brings
together researchers and managers from governmental agencies,
universities, and marine-related industries for the purpose of
presenting and discussing the most recent developments in the
modeling of environmental impacts to the marine environment.
The transport, fates, and effects of oil spills in the ocean are
among the dominant topics presented and discussed. There will
be a special session on oil-ice modeling, observations, and
data, including results from recent Joint Industry Project field
observations in the Barents Sea. Dick Prentki of the MMS Alaska
Region will chair this session. The modeling of mitigation
efforts will also be featured in the seminars.
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Second International Conference on the Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life, August 2010.
Scheduled to be held in Cork, Ireland, the main emphasis of the
conference will be on defining the current state of knowledge,
along with assessing progress in the 3 years since the first
conference. This conference will place strong emphasis on
recent research results, sharing of ideas, discussion of
experimental approaches, and analysis of regulatory issues.
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ICETECH 10, Anchorage, Alaska, September 2010.
The Arctic Section of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine
Engineers together with Alaska’s Institute of the North is now
well on the way to staging ICETECH 10, the premiere
international conference on ships and structures in ice. The
conference will take place in Anchorage starting with an opening
icebreaker reception on the evening of Monday, September 20, and
concluding in the late afternoon on Thursday, September 23. The
theme of the conference is "Performance of Ships and Structures
in Ice", but the hot topics of global warming, geopolitics, and
future expectations for the Arctic through participation of
Arctic Marine Shipping and other experts will be included.
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Workshop to Develop Methodologies for Studying the Effects of Seismic Survey Air Guns on Commercial, Recreational, and Subsistence Fish and Shell Fish in the Atlantic and Alaska.
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