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Official Program

September 13, 2021

Introductions

Felix Appelbe (Ocean Ambassadors): Ocean Ambassadors was founded in 2018 by Felix Appelbe.

A solicitor, farmer and conservationist, Felix is an alumnus of Atlantic College, which was where his life-long passion for the oceans was born. He has founded a number of charities including Save the Elephants, The Contributive Society and most recently, Ocean Ambassadors. 

Charlotte de Mille (Ocean Ambassadors): Founding member of Ocean Ambassadors. Museums education, Charlotte is a specialist in disseminating research to public audiences and facilitator of school programmes.

A first mate for Sail Britain she work towards cultural exchange and ocean literacy through exploration and education under sail. , Charlotte also teaches sailing for BigKid Foundation.

Olivier Adam (Sorbonne University): Prof Olivier Adam is specialist in bioacoustics and works on sounds emitted by cetaceans since 2001.

His main research deals with the humpback whale songs, the mother-calf interactions in humpbacks, and the social structures of sperm whales. He also studies the effects of anthropogenic activities on marine mammals. He regularly participates in radio broadcasts, film documentaries and he was the curator of the whale exhibition, called Baleinopolis, held in Paris in 2019-2020.

Session #1: effects of underwater anthropogenic sounds

Olivier Adam (Sorbonne University, France): "effects of anthropogenic sounds on cetacean species"

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Heleen Middel (NTNU, UK): "Marine noise pollution impacts within life cycle impact assessment"

Heleen Middel is a dedicated marine scientist who has both an academic background in environmental research and hands-on experience with marine mammals. She obtained her MSc. in the interdisciplinary field of Industrial Ecology where she specialised in Life Cycle Impact Assessments and worked on quantifying the impacts of marine noise pollution on cetaceans within this framework.

She is now living in Tromsø and works for the secretariat of the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission.

Paul Nguyen (Carleton University, Canada): "OSmOSE: a scientific interest group on underwater passive acoustic monitoring"

Dr Paul Nguyen received his PhD from the Sorbonne University in 2020. His research interests in the marine environment include but are not limited to characterising a soundscape, and developing detection and classification models for underwater sounds. Currently, he is a postdoc at Carleton University and he is working on the development of deep learning models to help identify Southern Resident Killer Whale vocalisations in the Salish Sea.

Session #2: effects of underwater anthropogenic sounds

Hervé Glotin (CNRS LIS, University of Toulon, France): "SABIOD: Online or Offline Deep Learning for Bioacoustic and Anthropophonic Scaled Observatories"

Hervé Glotin is Prof of Computer Science at LIS DYNi CNRS, Univ. of Toulon since 2010. He is honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). He defended his PhD thesis 'Robust adaptive multi-stream automatic speech recognition using voicing & localisation cues' at Inst. of Perceptual AI (IDIAP-CH) & Inst. of Spoken Communication (INP Grenoble-FR). From 2001 to 2003 he was CNRS research eng. in stochastic semantics (ERSS, Toulouse), then associate Pr. at UTLN. His research deals with machine learning and bioacoustics & tracking. He is co-pi of the Bird LifeClef challenges. Since 2012, he heads the CNRS ‘Scaled Acoustic Biodiversity’ involving teams in AI and bioacoustics (http://sabiod.org), and since 2016 the EADM CNRS MADICS action. http://glotin.univ-tln

Orla Robinson (Port of Vancouver, Canada): "Reducing underwater noise from vessels - ECHO Program approach"

Orla Robinson is the Program Manager of the ECHO Program, a port authority-led initiative to reduce the impacts of commercial shipping traffic on at-risk whales along British Columbia's southern coast.

Nadège Gandilhon (France): " Passive acoustics as a good practice for ports marine mammals monitoring"

Dr Nadège Gandilhon first acted as a volunteer for 15 years in protection & research actions on marine mammals (Ngo's member and founder), and obtained a PhD thesis in this field. Then, she was in charge of the scientific part for the French sanctuary Agoa (French West Indies), then researcher at the University of the West Indies as a member of the BORÉA Lab. She is now specialized in anthropogenic activities impacting protected marine species through analyses and studies on industrial harbour constructions. She also joined the French company CeSigma in the Environment department and also works on marine biodiversity as a freelance researcher.

Session #3: Solutions for noise mitigation

Eric Baudin (Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore, France): "A classification society contribution to the regulatory framework"

Eric Baudin heads the Innovation of Bureau Veritas Solutions Marine & Offshore and is responsible for the onsite measurements Marine and Offshore activities of Bureau Veritas and its subsidiaries. Graduated structural engineer from "Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers” – Paris, Eric joined BV in 2000 as onsite measurement engineer.

He has also been involved since 2007 in R&D activities, managing for BV measurement related EU projects and other JIPs, covering different topics such as: ship hydroelastic structural behaviour at sea, sloshing, noise and vibrations onboard, underwater noise radiated (URN) from ships and its impact on fauna. Driving the innovation for BVS since 2020, the focus is mainly on environmental services and especially those falling under energy efficiency and energy transition axes.

Damien Demoor (Naval Group, France): "Life-PIAQUO: Underwater noise impact reduction of the maritime traffic and real-time adaptation to ecosystems"

Damien Demoor is Business and Innovation Developer at Naval Group. He is specialised in maritime CleanTech innovation including underwater noise issue.

He is the project leader of the European projects LIFE-PIAQUO and LIFE-AGESCIC which try to reduce two of the most impacting anthropogenic activities on marine ecosystems: coastal and harbour works and maritime traffic

Laura Williamson (Ocean Science Consulting Limited, UK): "Prediction of marine mammal auditory impact"

Dr Laura Williamson, Senior Analyst at Ocean Science Consulting Limited (OSC), works across the research and commercial wings of the company.

She specialises in marine mammal ecology, species distribution modelling, acoustic propagation modelling, and Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) imagery analysis for commercial clients and peer-reviewed publications.

Brandon Southall (Sea-Inc, USA): "Mitigation the underwater anthropic noise"

Dr. Brandon Southall is Senior Scientist at Southall Environmental Associates and the California Ocean Alliance with research affiliations at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Duke University Marine Laboratory. He is a bioacoustician studying acoustic communication and the effects of noise on the hearing and behaviour of marine mammals in field and laboratory settings.

Session #4: Policies and regulation

Nicolas Entrup (OceanCare, Switzerland): "Future perspective of noise mitigation"

Nicolas Entrup, 49, born and living in Vienna, Austria, is Co-Director for International Relations at OceanCare and manages the Invisible Pollution Program. He has extensive international political experience, working on multiple multilateral environmental agreements, including ACCOBAMS, CBD, CITES, CMS, GFCM and the IWC and is following the implementation of the objectives of the EU’s MSFD, in particular Descriptor 11.

Entrup has been invited speaker, representing OceanCare, at the nineteenth meeting of the UN Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (ICP-19) in 2018 which focused on anthropogenic underwater noise.

Michael Jasny (NRDC, USA): "Emerging U.S. policy on shipping noise"

Michael Jasny is a leading expert in the law and policy of ocean noise pollution.

For more than a decade, he has directed high-profile litigation, lobbying efforts, science-based policy development, and public advocacy to improve the regulation of this emergent global problem. His work also focuses on securing protection for endangered marine mammals and their habitat, opposing development projects that threaten marine mammals off the U.S. and Canadian coastlines, and improving management of fisheries, whale-watching tourism, and other sectors that impact these vulnerable species.

Tom Smith (British Maritime Tech Group / University College London) : "Application of energy-saving devices for reducing underwater radiated noise from marine vessels"

Tom Smith is a naval architect, specialising in hydrodynamics and acoustics. He has a PhD in mechanical engineering from University College London, where he developed computational models for understanding and predicting fluid-induced noise.

He has published papers and presented on a wide variety of topics, including computational acoustics, turbulence, and marine hydrodynamics.