ISOSD2011

3^rd International Symposium on

Occupational Scientific Diving

of ESDP

09-12 November, 2011 - Porto Cesareo, Lecce (Italy)

Organised by Italian Association for Scientific Divers (AIOSS), the Italian member of the European Scientific Diving Panel (ESF MB ESDP), in collaboration with Federation of Underwater Archaeologist (FAS), with the patronage of the Porto Cesareo MPA, Puglia Region and Tourism Promotion Agency of Lecce. 

Symposium organisers welcome oral presentations and posters on all fields of scientific diving research and training (science, maritime archaeology, scientific engineering, etc.). Special emphasis is on methods, techniques, and instrumentation in actual underwater fieldwork. In addition to scientific presentations, we encourage you to submit presentations of scientific diving methods, projects characterized by an important contribution of scientific diving, the role of Scientific Divers in MPAs management, etc.

• Topics of the oral sessions

• Round tables

• Venues and travel info

• Contact information

• Organising committee

• Important dates

• Program

• Directions for authors for abstract submission

• Conference proceedings

• Registration and accommodations

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Aquatic biologists and ecologists are concerned about very different types of researches. Some study areas are based on high observational skills and on descriptive/mensurative approaches; some require manipulative experiments to define cause/effect relationships at a broad range of biotic organisations and environmental interactions. This session will focus on the latter approach, where scientific diving represents often the solely, way to carry out such studies.

Scientific diving techniques represent an important research tool for geologist when surface or remote systems are not applicable or reliable. Coastal environments, lakes, caves are just a few examples of areas where scientific diving can be used. This session welcomes presentations of underwater studies where scientific diving represents a valuable way of data collection and survey, especially in otherwise inaccessible places.

The progress in every field of the underwater sciences requires advances in diver techniques that can extend time and depth of surveys and improve health & safety of the scientific divers. At the same time the new technology provides better and innovative instruments. All of that can increase the range of research activities which can be performed underwater.

The repertoire of the archaeological evidences, which are currently underwater due to the variations of sea level, is quite large. When they are used with a precise methodological approach, some artefacts today submerged can be significant markers of sea level changes and can give us interesting details to support the reconstruction of both the ancient coastal lines and the patterns of the coastal settlement. This session aims to focus interdisciplinary research works in the perspective of the geoarchaeology or human ecology: “an integrated way of understanding humans in dynamic landscapes” (Barker & Bintcliff, 1999).

Venues

Hotel Lo Scoglio quality and tradition are acknowledged by some of the most important international travel guides such as Michelin Guide and Le Guide du Routard.

Travel info

Contact information

Organising committee

Important dates

· 1^st July 2011 Deadline for Abstract submission ... postponed to 15^th July 2011

· 15^th July 2011 Notification of paper acceptance... postponed to 22^nd July 2011

· 2^nd September 2011 Deadline for early registration

· late registration until space available

Program

 

Date	Time	Session	Title
09/11/2011		Arrivals (transfer)
	16:00	Dive (optional)
	20:00	Dinner
10/11/2011	08:00	Breakfast
	08:30	Registration
	09:00	Welcome	Local authorities and ESDP representative
	09:30	Biology and ecology	Scientific diving techniques to experimentally approach bio-ecological processes
	11:00	Coffee break
	11:40	Biology and ecology	Scientific diving techniques to experimentally approach bio-ecological processes
	13:00	Light lunch
	14:20	Biology and ecology	Scientific diving techniques to experimentally approach bio-ecological processes
	15:40	Coffee break
	16:20	Geology	Scientific diving as tool in remote or difficult places
	18:00	Round Table 1	European Scientific Diver: legislation and safety
	20:00	Social Dinner
11/11/2011	08:00	Breakfast
	09:20	Innovation & Technology	New Technology in Underwater Science
	11:00	Coffee break
	11:30	Poster session	and ITN ESDTN internal meeting
	12:45	Light lunch
	14:00	Archeology	Maritime archaeology and coastal landscape
	16:10	Coffee break
	16:40	Archeology	Maritime archaeology and coastal landscape
	18:20	Round Table 2	Appropriate training path for scientific divers focusing on the worldwide available working scenario
	20:00	Dinner
12/11/2011	08:00	Breakfast
	10:00	Dive (optional)
		Departures (transfer)

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Directions for authors for abstract submission

Conference proceedings

A limited number of selected papers may be published in a special issue (July, 2012) of Underwater Technology, the peer-reviewed International Journal of the Society for Underwater Technology (www.sut.org.uk). The objectives of the journal are to inform and acquaint the Society's members and other readers with current views and new developments in the broad areas of underwater technology, ocean science and offshore engineering. The SUT's interests and the scope of the journal are interdisciplinary, covering technological aspects and applications of topics including: diving technology and physiology, environmental forces, geology/geotechnics, marine pollution, marine renewable energies, marine resources, oceanography, underwater archaeology.

Please note that submitted manuscripts must adhere to aims and objectives as well style and layout of the journal, as outlined in the Guidelines for Journal Contributors, and pass a formal peer-review process. Submission dead line 20^th January 2012.

Registration & Accommodations

Registration

Please note unless at least one person named as an author on an oral presentation or a poster is registered to attend the meeting by 2^nd September 2011, then the contribution will be deleted from the programme and the abstract volume.

To register:

• Fill the online “Symposium Registration Form”

• Pay the Symposium Fee

Due to restricted space, we will have to adhere to first-come, first-served principle.

Registration effective only after payment.

Conference Fees

Registration includes conference proceeding, lunches and coffee breaks.

* not applicable to co-authors.

Accommodations

Special offer: all inclusive accommodation (3 nights in double room and 3 dinners), until space available inside the hotel complex “Isola lo scoglio”, € 120.00 each. Single room € 150.00.

The price of the accommodation cannot be guaranteed for late registrations. For shorter/longer stay or special requests please contact the symposium secretariat (antheus@unisalento.it).

Dives

We also offer optional dives at sites of scientific and/or archaeological interest in the Ionian Sea . Each dive costs € 25.00 including weight belt and cylinder. For more information or equipment requests please contact the symposium secretariat (antheus@unisalento.it).

Payment methods

• Online by filling the cart on the next page

• By bank transfer

Bank account name: Associazione Italiana Operatori Scientifici Subacquei

Reference: ISOSD2011

Bank account number: 000100898332

Bank address: UNICREDIT BANCA

IBAN-account number: IT50J0200813171000100898332

SWIFT/BIC code: UNCRITM1PT1

Please make sure that your name and ISOSD2011 appears on the bank transfer form.

Link to previous edition: ISOSD2009