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