PACIFIC RIM MARINE DEBRIS CONFERENCE
Hawaii State Capitol Auditorium - October 21-24, 2013
Monday, October 21, 2013
8:00 - 9:00 am
Registration & continental breakfast (Foyer)
9:00 - 9: 30 am
Pule & welcome (Auditorium)
9:30 - 10:15 am
Opening Remarks
[please, no food in Auditorium]
Japan Consul General Toyoei Shigeeda (invited)
Senator Brian Schatz (by video)
(confirmed)
Sir Richard Branson (by video)
(confirmed)
10:15 - 10:50 am
Coffee break (Foyer)
10:50 - 11:30 am
Keynote Speakers #3 and #4
11:30 - 12:00 pm
Introduction of Workshops & Working Groups
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Lunch (Cafe Julia)
Speaker: William Aila, Director, Hawaii Department of
Land & Natural Resources (confirmed)
1:30 pm
MARINE DEBRIS OBSERVING SYSTEM WORKSHOP
1:30 - 2:00 pm
Overview of current tracking efforts
Glen Watabayshi NOAA Office of Response & Restoration,
Emergency Response Division (by Webex) (confirmed)
2:00 - 3:00 pm
State of knowledge of amount, composition, pathways, & life
cycle of marine debris
Shin Sato, Tottori University of Environmental Studies
(confirmed)
Masaru Tanaka, Faculty of Fisheries, Graduate School of
Agriculture, Kyoto Univ. (confirmed)
3:00 - 3:30 pm
Afternoon tea (Foyer)
3:30 - 4:15 pm
New instruments & improved monitoring techniques & tools
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Masaru Tanaka, Faculty of Fisheries, Graduate School of
Agriculture, Kyoto Univ. (confirmed)
Zora McGinnis, Hawaii Pacific Univ. at-sea data collection
methods (confirmed)
4:15 - 5:00 pm
Modeling a hypothetical tsunami originating from the Cascadia
Fault
Don Kobayashi, NOAA PIFSC - Ecosystems and Oceanography
Division (confirmed)
5:30 - 7:30 pm
Opening Reception (Cafe Julia)
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
8:00 - 8:30 am
Continental breakfast (Foyer)
8:30 - 10:00 am
COASTAL COMMUNITIES CAPACITY BUILDING WORKING GROUP
Agency presentations on tsunami debris removal & disposal
Laura McIntyre, Division of Environmental Health, State of
Hawaii, Department of Health (confirmed)
Chris Havel, Assoc. Director, Oregon Parks & Recreation
(confirmed)
Spokesperson, State of Hawaii, Department of Land &
Natural Resources (invited)
10:00 - 10:30 am
Coffee break (Foyer)
10:30 - 11:15 am
Remediation of adverse impacts to the environment
Haruo Matsumura, Tottori Univ. of Environmental Studies
(confirmed)
Dr. Bob Richmond, Kewalo Marine Laboratory, UH (confirmed)
11:15 - 12:00 pm
Community capacity-building approaches & recommendations
Karla Robison, Ucluelet's Marine Debris Program, British
Columbia (confirmed)
Chris Pallister, Gulf of Alaska Keeper (confirmed)
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Eben Schwartz, Marine Debris Program Mgr, Calif. Coastal
Commission (invited)
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Lunch (Cafe Julia)
1:30 pm
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS WORKSHOP
1:30 - 2:30 pm
Invasive alien aquatic species
George Balazs, NOAA, PIFSC Protected Species Division
(confirmed)
Sonia Gorgula, DLNR Division of Aquatic Resources (confirmed)
Sam Chan, Sea Grant Oregon State Univ. (confirmed)
2:30 - 3:30 pm
Debris entanglement and ingestion
David Scholfield, NMFS PIRO PRD (confirmed)
Dr. David Hyrenbach, HPU, (confirmed)
Emily Jeffers, Oceans Program, Center for Biological Diversity
(confirmed)
3:30 - 4:00 pm
Afternoon tea (Foyer)
4:00 - 4:40 pm
Micro plastics moving through the food chain
Anthony Andrady, North Carolina State University
(confirmed)
Hideshige Takada, Environmental Organic Geochemist, Tokyo
Univ. (invited)
4:40 - 5:00 pm
FADS as marine debris
Megan O`Toole, Global Tuna Conservation, Pew Environment
Group (confirmed)
Dinner on own
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
8:00 - 8:30 am
Continental breakfast (Foyer)
8:30 am
RAPID RESPONSE WORKSHOP
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8:30 - 9:15 am
Current response protocols and barriers to addressing sudden influxes
of large amounts of marine debris from catastrophic events
David Swatland, NOAA NMSO, (confirmed)
Ian Pharoah, Sea Resources Ltd, New Zealand (confirmed)
Chris Havel, Governor of Oregon's Japan Tsunami Marine Debris Task
Force (confirmed)
Clarence (Curtis) Martin, State of Hawaii Hazard Evaluation &
Emergency Response Office (HEER) (confirmed)
Mike McDonald, Director of Marine Operations, Hawaiian Tug &
Barge/ Young Brothers, Ltd. (Confirmed)
Coast Guard (invited)
9:15 - 10:00 am
Current & potential technology for the collection, removal &
recycling of masses of floating marine debris
10:00 - 10:30 am
Coffee break (Foyer)
10:30 - 11:15 am
Development of a multi-national rapid response plan
11:15 - 12:00 pm
Development of a multinational response team to coordinate
emergency marine debris collection efforts in the Pacific Basin
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Lunch (Cafe Julia)
1:30 pm
ECONOMIC THREATS & IMPACTS WORKING GROUP
1:30 - 3:15 pm
At-sea interactions with marine debris & available technology
for collection, removal and recycling of debris
Capt. Ed Enos (confirmed)
Mike Trask, tug boat captain (confirmed)
Mike McDonald, Director of Marine Operations, Hawaiian Tug &
Barge/ Young Brothers, Ltd. (confirmed)
Fred Awawati, MARISCO (invited)
3:15 - 3:45 pm
Afternoon tea (Foyer)
3:45 - 5:00 pm
Economic impacts of marine debris on shipping & tourism
Matson Navigation representative (invited)
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Gary North, Director, Hawaii Harbor Users Group (invited)
Hawaii Tourism Authority (invited)
Dinner on own
Thursday , October 24, 2013
8:00 - 8:30 am
Continental breakfast (Foyer)
8:30 am
ENERGY & RECYCLING SOLUTIONS WORKING GROUP
8:30 - 9:15 am
Converting floating debris to energy
Manny Lanuevo, Chief, Refuse Division, Dept. Environmental
Services, City & County of Honolulu (confirmed)
Robert Webster, General Manager, Covanta Energy, H-Power
(confirmed)
9:15 - 10:00 am
Recycling marine debris: new methods, solutions & products
Better World Products (invited)
10:00 - 10:30 am
Coffee break (Foyer)
10:30 - 12:00 pm
Plenary Discussion: identifying and prioritizing actions that can be
taken now, together with any research/information gaps that may
need to be addressed in order to establish and/or move toward more
comprehensive solutions.
Adjourn
1:30 - 5:00 pm
Field Trip: Garbage to Energy Facilities: how Oahu recycles marine
debris. 30 persons. Meet bus on Richards Street across from YWCA.
Poster Session, Industry Booths & Displays (Capitol Ground Floor)
Monday pm - Wednesday pm ( Set up Monday am; take down Thursday am)
Conference administrative center in Room__________.
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