As part of the

Saferseas III 2011 conference

you are invited by

IFREMER,

The French-Norwegian Foundation,

The Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology,

4th International Workshop
on Technologies for Search And Rescue
and other Emergency Marine Operations

Le Quartz
Brest, France
10-11-12 May 2011

and the organizing Committee:

Art A. Allen

Øyvind Breivik

Christophe Maisondieu

Michel Olagnon

Links to abstracts.

Links to presentations

Participants, please fill-in and return the questionnaire to Michel Olagnon

Following the 2004, 2006 and 2008 workshops that Ifremer and the French-Norwegian Foundation organized, a fourth workshop was organized at Le Quartz, Brest, France, on Tuesday 10th, Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th May 2011, as part of the Saferseas 2011 Conference. The aim of the seminar was to exchange information about technological needs and solutions for avoiding that incidents at sea turn into major disasters, to discuss progress since the previous workshop and on-going projects, and to join complementary efforts so as to build up synergies between relevant field-players and nations and to increase the wide-spreading of such preservation means within the maritime industry.

We are pleased to inform you that the editorial board of the Springer-Verlag journal Ocean Dynamics has kindly invited the organizers of the workshop as guest editors of a special issue on that occasion, devoted to "Advances in search and rescue at sea", that we wish will cover the topics of:

  • Stochastic ensemble trajectory modeling for forecasting search areas
  • Field methods for establishing drift properties of SAR objects
  • Forces on drifting objects and relevant parameterizations of these
  • Lagrangian coherent structures and their importance for the advection of drifting objects
  • Operational model products relevant for SAR and trajectory models (ocean models, wave models, NWPs)
  • The use of high-frequency (HF) coastal radars for providing surface current fields for SAR operations
  • Advances in drifter technology for SAR operations (self-locating datum marker buoys)
  • Backtracking algorithms for locating the origin of a debris field.

Instructions for submission to Ocean Dynamics

To be selected, the papers will have to meet the criteria both of relevance to those topics and of the quality standards usual for such a scientific journal. Yet, we are confident that a good number of the presentations at the workshop can provide the basis to meet that challenge in a field where there has been, up to now, a lack of treatment in the scientific litterature.

Potential authors, please submit your paper before September 20th. Contact the editors in case of problem.

When connecting to the Ocean Dynamics site, potential authors should choose the "article type" Special Issue - SAR 2011 in the Editorial Manager system.

They should follow journal guidelines when preparing their manuscripts, especially for readability of figures that is often a problem.

Authors of presentations that do not fall into the above topics should not feel excluded: they address a different audience than the readers of Ocean Dynamics, and we will make all efforts, by publishing their papers in an e-book on the web, to help them reach it.

If you wish more information, please contact: