10 am

Registration of participants

11 am

Opening

• Ulrike Guerin, UNESCO
• Koen van Balen, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
• Marnix Pieters, Onroerend Erfgoed, Belgium

11.30 am

The significance of underwater cultural heritage –Geoff Bailey, University of York

Underwater cultural heritage under pressure -Thijs Maarleveld, ICOMOS and University of Southern Denmark

The future of underwater archaeology - Constantin Chera, President of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Body of the UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage

12.45 pm

Refreshments

Presentations of research posters

1:30 pm

Commercial exploitation, commercial archaeological interventions and international cooperation

Chair Katerina Dellaporta: the 2001 Convention’s rejection of commercial exploitation and encouragement of international collaboration

• The extent and the prevention of pillaging on submerged archaeological sites – the French experience, Michel L’Hour, Department of Underwater and Undersea Archaeological Research (DRASSM), France

• The Centenary of the Titanic and the treaty giving legal protection, Ole Varmer, NOAA, USA
• National authorities and the prevention of commercial exploitation of underwater cultural heritage – the Spanish experience, tba, Spain
• The impact and extent of looting and commercial interventions - the Portuguese experience and the planned Portuguese / Spanish collaboration on the Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Alexandre Monteiro, Instituto de Arqueologia e Paleociências of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal and Veronica Walker Vadillo, Oxford's School of Archaeology, Spain/UK
• Outsourcing archaeological services to commercial professional services - the Dutch experience and a governmental perspective on the application of the Valletta treaty, Martijn Manders, Dutch Cultural Heritage Agency, Netherlands
• Professional archaeological services in the UK – an archaeological contractor’s perspective, Antony Firth, Wessex Archaeology UK

(15 min/intervention)

3:30 pm

Coffee Break

3:45 pm

Trawling and fishing

Chair Thijs Maarleveld: the compatibility of heritage protection and fishing practice

• Quantification of trawl damage to premodern shipwreck sites: case studies from the Aegean and Black Seas, Michael Brennan, University of Rhode Island, USA
• Impact of trawling and fishing on underwater cultural heritage sites - the Dutch experience, Thijs van Kolfschoten and Margot Kuitems, Leiden University, Netherlands
• The perspective of the fishing industry on the impact of trawling and fishing on submerged heritage, Philip MacMullen, Sea Fish Industry Authority, UK

(15 min/intervention)

4:45 pm

Construction works

Chair Friedrich Lüth: the compatibility of heritage protection and construction works

• The Femarnbelt Fixed Link - the new Baltic tunnel, Jorgen Dencker, Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde, Denmark
• The Maasvlakte 2 Extension Project (Port of Rotterdam) - a showcase of interdisciplinary research of underwater cultural heritage in the North Sea, Andrea Otte, Dutch Cultural Heritage Agency, Netherlands
• Coastal developments and waterfront constructions: city, dyke, dam and marina building, Alexandre Monteiro, Instituto de Arqueologia e Paleociências of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

(15 min/intervention)

5:45 pm

Discussion

7 pm

Reception

Presentations of research posters

8:30 am

Developing the seabed, resource extraction and renewable energy development at Sea

Chair Nicolas Flemming: the compatibility of heritage protection and development projects

• The need for marine data - European Marine Observation and Marine Spatial Planning, Iain Shepherd, DG for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries of the European Commission

• Energy Development on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf: challenges in locating, studying, and protecting Underwater Cultural Heritage, Brian Jordan, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, USA
• The consideration of archaeological sites in oil and gas drilling operations, Amanda Evans, Tesla Offshore / SHA, USA
• The Nord Stream Baltic pipeline and underwater cultural heritage management in the Swedish EEZ,Andreas Olsen, Swedish National Maritime Museums, Sweden

• The significance and contribution of marine aggregates, Andrew Bellamy, British Marine Aggregate Producers Association (BMAPA), UK

• Offshore renewable energy development – wind farms in the North Sea, Martijn Manders, Dutch Cultural Heritage Agency, Netherlands and Antony Firth, Wessex Archaeology, UK

(15 min/intervention)

10:30 am

Coffee break

10:45 am

Environmental impact and climate change

Chair Koen van Balen: the impact of environmental changes on the preservation of underwater cultural heritage

• The spread of shipworm in the Baltic, David Gregory, Conservation Department of the National Museum of Denmark, Denmark
• Global sea level rise and changing erosion, Jan Harff, Baltic Sea Research Institute, Germany and Birgit Hünicke, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany
• The appearance of new bacteria (titanic bacterium) and metal corrosion, Henrietta Mann, Dalhousie University, Canada
• Environmental impact assessment and archaeological heritage, Stefan Wessman,National Board of Antiquities, Finland

(15 min/intervention)

12:15 pm

Discussion

1 pm

Lunch Break

Presentations of research posters

2 pm

Tourism and the valorisation of underwater cultural heritage

Chair Marnix Pieters: awareness raising for the importance of underwater cultural heritage

• Opportunities arising for national economies from the valorisation of underwater cultural heritage,Jordi Tresseras, University of Barcelona, Spain
• The impact on and opportunities arising from tourism to submerged sites, Jim Delgado, NOAA/INA, USA and Nicolas Flemming, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, UK
• The valorisation and the presentation of underwater archaeological heritage
  • The Vasa Museum, Andreas Olsson, Swedish National Maritime Museum, Sweden
  • The Nordic experience - access through maritime dive trails and virtual simulation, Sallamaria Tikkanen, Maritime Museum, Finland

(15 min/intervention)

3:15 pm

Coffee break

3:30 pm

Preventive conservation and development-led-archaeology between science and pragmatism

Chair James Delgado: opportunities arising for the research and protection of underwater cultural heritage from development projects

• The role of archaeologists in understanding and preventing the impacts of marine industries on the prehistoric environment, Martin Bates, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK
• The development of measures to mitigate impact on the underwater cultural heritage
  • Innovative, non-destructive techniques and methodologies for the survey and the exploration of submerged cultural remains on the shallow and deep seafloor, Dimitris Sakellariou, Hellenic Centre of Marine Research, Greece
  • Impact mitigation in the management submerged archaeological sites, Martin Segschneider, Archaeological State Office Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

• • Preventive conservation, Nathalie Huet, Department of Underwater and Undersea Archaeological Research (DRASSM), France

• • Setting national research agendas as a guide to mitigation, Mark Dunkley, English Heritage

(15 min/intervention)

4:45 pm

Discussion