Scientific program

Monday, May 6

8:30 Register and Welcome

9:00     Stefano Aliani, Stripes of plastics floating on the ocean

10:00   Alfredo Soldati, Full rotational dynamics of plastic microfibers in turbulence

10:20   Vincente Pérez Muñuzuri, Modeling Fragmentation of Plastic Particles

10:40   Zhixuan Liu, Transport of Gas Bubbles by Vortex Rings

11:00 Break

11:40   Jenny Dingwall, Large eddy simulations of buoyant particles in a geostrophically adjusting front

12:00   Mao Kuroda, Small microplastics detected in the intermediate layer in the North Pacific Ocean: field surveys and possible pathways

12:20   Nimish Pujara, Coastal transport and beaching of microplastics

12:40 Discussion

13:00 Lunch

14:20   Rama Govindarajan, Aspects of small-particle sedimentation

15:20   Matthew Hoffman, Modeling and measuring fate and shoreline deposition of microplastic in North American Lakes

15:40   Michael Denes, PlasticParcels – a ready-to-use tool for plastic dispersion simulations and parameterization development

16:00 Break

16:40   Andrew Woods, Experiments on Microplastic-Sediment Interaction

17:00   Daniel Carlson, Detecting intermittent surface convergence zones using aerial and satellite remote sensing and ship-borne X-band radar

17:20 Flash talks (Meike Bos, Hugo Poncelet, Marie Poulain-Zarcos, Luz Andrea Silva Torres)

18:00 Ice Breaker

19:00 Dinner

Tuesday, May 7

9:00     Michelle DiBenedetto, Sunlight and microplastics: how ocean surface dynamics control particle light exposure

10:00   Marco De Paoli, Influence of shear Reynolds number on the transport and dynamics of microplastic fibres in turbulent channel flow

10:20   Andrea Paluselli, Vertical distribution and transport of textile microfibers (MFs) in the Mediterranean water column

10:40   Chisa Higuchi, How much should we reduce plastic waste emission to avoid additional ocean plastic pollution by 2050s

11:00 Break

11:40   Gautier Verhille, Dynamics of deformable particles in turbulent flows

12:00   Laura Sunberg, Impacts of microplastic properties on transport by coastal flows

12:20   Eckart Meiburg, Exploring flocculation and transport processes of cohesive particulate matter via particle-resolving simulations

12:40 Discussion

13:00 Lunch

14:20   Quentin Kriaa, Transport and settling of microplastics in turbidity currents

15:20   Lawrence Pratt, Attraction and Accumulation of Microplastics in 3D Flows under Maxey-Riley Dynamics

15:40   Michael Dotzel, Laboratory Experiments on Rigid Particle Aggregation in an Ekman-driven Can Flow

16:00 Break

16:40   Federico Pizzi, Numerical and Laboratory Studies of Marine Microplastics in upper-ocean turbulence

17:00 Discussion

Wednesday, May 8

9:00     Atsuhiko Isobe, A database of microplastic abundance across the world’s upper ocean

10:00   Adrien Lefauve, An experimental testbed for environmental stratified turbulence and mixing

10:20   Claudia Cenedese, Entrainment enhancement by particles in turbulent plumes

10:40   Jessamy Mol, A laboratory study of wave-induced transport in a rotating wave flume

11:00 Break

11:40   Francois Blanchette, Hydrodynamics Forces and Formation Mechanisms of Marine Aggregates

12:00   Sara Cloux, Mapping the Pathways of Marine Litter: Insights from 3D Ocean Trajectories and Vertical Dynamics

12:20   Alberto Baudena, The pathways of plastic beneath the Mediterranean Sea surface

12:40 Discussion

13:00 Lunch

14:20   Giuseppe Sauria, 10 years of plastic pollution research: main findings and future perspectives

15:20 Closing discussion

16:00 Break and farewells