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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

8h30 - Welcome Coffee

8h50 - Opening

Theme 1: Vertical transport in muddy environments

Chair: T.B.D

9h - Keynote: Kryss Waldschläger (Wageningen University) - Microplastics in Motion: Learning from Mineral Sediment to Understand Microplastic Transport

9h30 - Keynote: Nan Wu (British Antarctic Survey) - Flocs as Vectors for Microplastics in the Aquatic Environment

10h - PLASTINEST Keynote: Sophie Defontaine (CEREMA) - Settling behaviour of microplastics in Muddy Environments 

10h20 - PLASTINEST Keynote: Sébastien Jarny (Pprime Institut) - Erodability of Microplastics in Muddy Environments

10h40 - Discussion

11h Coffee Break and Demonstrations 1: SCAF optical settling column

Theme 3: Large-scale transport dynamics: insights from numerical modelling

Chair: Camille Rinchon

11h45 - PLASTINEST Keynote: Isabel Jalón-Rojas (EPOC laboratory, CNRS) - Mechanisms of Microplastic Transport and Trapping in Estuaries: From Idealized to High-Complexity Numerical Models

12h15 - Keynote: Erik Toorman (KU Leuven) - Eulerian Modelling of Microplastics Dispersal in Coastal Areas, Coupled with Hydrodynamics and Sediment Transport

12h45 - Discussion

13h15 - Lunch

14h30  – Parallel Demonstrations (by groups):

Demonstration 2: Microplastic sampling with the Ascension in-situ filtration profiler in the Garonne Tidal River

Demonstration 3: Tracking microplastic transport with TrackMPD numerical model

Theme 2: From intratidal to seasonal dynamics: insights from in-situ observations

Chair: Jonnhy Gasperi

15h30 - Keynote: Tim van Emmerik (Wageningen University) - The role of estuaries in global plastic transport between rivers and seas

16h - Keynote: Andrew Cundy (University of Southampton) - An estuarine “filter”? Microplastic trapping and cycling in estuaries over short- to medium-timescales – examples from the southern UK

16h30 - PLASTINEST Keynote: Vania Ruiz González (EPOC laboratory, University of Sinaloa) - Monitorlng the Spatio-temporal Variability of Microplastics in a Macrotidal Estuary.

16h50 - Discussion and Final Discussion

17h30 - Poster Session + Cocktail