Confirmed keynotes speakers
Dr. Brent A. Law, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, NS, Canada
Particle dynamics in marine environments: processes, patterns, and applications
Dr. Teresa Serra, Department of Physics, University of Girona, Spain
Particle dynamics in coastal ecosystems
Tuesday 16 September
19:00 Icebreaker reception - Sponsored by Jan de Nul
until 21:00
Location: conference venue InnovOcean Campus, Jacobsenstraat 1, 8400 Oostende
Wednesday 17 September
8:00 Registration
9:00 Welcome, introduction of organizers, brief mention of sponsors and exhibitors, practicalities/ logistics
9:05 Sponsor Presentations
Jan de Nul
Deme
9:15 Poster pitches
9:20 Session 1: Innovations in Ocean Observation and Sensing Technologies.
Chair: Yves Plancke
9:20 30 Years of Measuring Suspended Particles (Yogi Agrawal, Ole Mikkelsen)
9:45 An Optical Sensor for Autonomous Detection of Particulate Inorganic Carbon (PIC) Concentration in Seawater
(Qiming Sun)
10:05 Development of a New In-Situ Hyperspectral Transmissometer for Ocean IOP Closure (Ole Mikkelsen)
10:25 Particle measurements two ways with Origin 600 (Tom Comerford)
10:45 Coffee break
Posters and exhibitors
11:10 From pixels to patterns: high-throughput image classification and morphometry through a new PI-10 imaging pipeline
(Jonas Mortelmans)
11:30 Design and Implementation of an Automated Image Classification Workflow for Phytoplankton Monitoring (Decrop Wout)
11:50 Advancing Coastal Ecosystem Monitoring: A Multi-Sensor Approach for Near Real-Time Biogeochemical Mapping at High Temporal and Spatial Resolution (Clémence Goyens)
12:10 Towards 3D turbidity by correlating multibeam sonar and in-situ sensor data: the TURBEAMS approach
(Thomas Vandorpe)
12:30 Intra-annual variability of marine floc morphology in southern North Sea coastal waters using in-situ high-resolution underwater imaging and the SANDI Python package (Louise Delhaye)
12:50 Lunch break
13:45 Session 2: Particle Dynamics and Transport in Coastal and Shelf Seas I.
Chair: Ole Mikkelsen
13:45 Keynote: Particle dynamics in marine environments: processes, patterns, and applications (Brent Law)
14:10 Concentration and composition of Suspended Particulate Matter along nearshore to offshore transects (Michael Fettweis)
14:30 Vertical dynamics of suspended particulate matter and chlorophyll-a in a well-mixed coastal turbid system
(Saumya Silori)
14:50 Multi-sensor observations of suspended particulate matter in a tidal coastal environment (Benjamin Van Roozendael)
15:10 Coffee break
Posters and exhibitors
15:40 Session 3: Microplastics and Anthropogenic Particles in Marine Systems.
Chair: Wayne Slade
15:40 Exploring (micro)plastic pollution in European ports: Antwerp and Rotterdam case studies (Xiebe Stiers)
16:00 Microplastic pollution in the inner Ría de Arousa: seasonal variability and transport pathways from riverine, urban, and industrial sources (Marisela Des)
16:20 Understanding the Settling Behavior of Microplastics with Fine Sediments (Sophie Defontaine)
16:40 Transport of alien particles in sand beds mobilised by waves (Otto Neshamar)
17:00 End of the day
Thursday 18 September
8:30 Registration
9:00 Session 4: Particle Dynamics and Transport in Coastal and Shelf Seas II.
Chair: Michael Fettweis
9:00 Keynote: Particle dynamics in coastal ecosystems (Teresa Serra)
9:25 Seasonal characteristics of flocculation and Bio-flocculation across the Belgian near-shore region (Christian Schwarz)
9:45 Tidal Dynamics of In Situ PSD in the Southern German Bight and the Weser Estuary (Julián E. Cortese)
10:05 Zooplankton and Phytoplankton Time Series Analysis for the Belgian North Sea (Annika Eske)
10:25 Coffee break
Posters and exhibitors
10:55 The role of sediment transport dynamics in ocean-based climate change mitigation technologies (Chloe Leach)
11:15 Effects of SPM concentration, composition, size characteristics and optical properties on hyperspectral reflectance signatures in a coastal estuary (Eurico D’Sa)
11:35 A visual survey of the Atlantic: Particle size distributions from the imaging sensors (Marika Takeuchi)
11:55 Walk to the MSO (Marine Station Oostende)
12:15 Lunch break
13:30 Visit VLIZ Marine Robotics Centre
14:00 Bus to Wetenschapspark, Oostende
Sponsored by DEME
14:30 Visit Flanders Maritime Laboratory
15:30 Bus to Brugge
Sponsored by DEME
16:00 Guided city walk and boat tour
including a stop at a chocolate shop
Sponsored by DEME
18:30 Conference dinner at Halve Maan Brewery - with presentation of the Eva and Yogi Agrawal Award
including a guided brewery tour, beer tap course, three-course dinner with accompanying beers, and a small souvenir
Sponsored by Flanders Hydraulics
22:30 Walk from brewery to bus parking
23:00 Bus to Oostende
23:30 End of the day
Friday 19 September
9:00 Session 5: Methods for Particle and Sediment Characterization.
Chair: Nore Praet
9:00 Use of a Lagrangian Particle Model to Characterise a New Acoustic Backscatter Profiler (Andy Smerdon)
9:20 On Acoustic Backscatter Systems (ABS) calibration for suspended sediment concentration estimation in turbulent flows
(Guillaume Fromant)
9:40 The complexity of calibrating indirect sediment measurement techniques in the Schelde-estuary (Yves Plancke)
10:00 Comparing the determination of Suspended solids concentration (SSC) by use of Optical Backscatter (OBS) and Acoustic Backscatter (ABS) Sensors (Alisa Spriet)
10:20 Coffee break
Posters and exhibitors
10:50 Assessment of the settling velocity measurement procedures of sediment particles in laboratory conditions (Kris Dumont)
11:10 Understanding the optical behaviour and spectral signature of dredging-induced plumes in coastal waters
(Liesbeth De Keukelaere)
11:30 A bio-geo-optically consistent particle model for optical inversion (Xiaodong Zhang)
11:50 Developing optical fingerprinting framework for coastal particle source identification (Eero Asmala)
12:10 Walk to Fort Napoleon
12:25 Lunch
13:25 End of PiE 2025
Posters
- SUNDANSE: Innovative sediment management project in the Danube and Black Sea system (Sven Smolders)
- Toward Robust Calibration of the Point Source Integrated Cavity Absorption Meter (PSICAM): Scattering Effects and Solid Absorption Standard Evaluation (Michael Twardowski)
- Riding the Eddies: Lagrangian Insights into Mesoscale Eddy Impacts on the East Greenland Current and Surrounding Sea Ice (Leandro Ponsoni)
- In Search of Carbon Pathways in the North Sea and the Belgian Coastal Zone (Evgeny Ivanov)
- The Comparison of In Situ and In Lab Instruments to Determine Particle Size Distribution (Yves Plancke)