Con tac t pe rsons : S t e i n a r L øve E l l e f m o ( NT NU) s t e i n a r .e l l e f mo@ntn u .no F r e d r i k Sø r e id e ( NT NU) f r e d r i k . so re i d e@ntn u .n o T o m He ld a l ( NG U) t o m .h e ld a l@ng u .n o Reg is t ra t i on in f o : Tove Aune (NGU) tove .aune@ngu.no +4773904000

Program Tuesday November 20

11:30 Registration 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Welcome address (Morten Smelror, Managing Director, Geological Survey of Norway NGU) 13:15 Commercial ocean mining - towards a new industry (Tom Dettweiler, Director, Minerals

Exploration Department, Odyssey Marine Exploration) 14:00 14 years of research on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge - perspectives on future mining on the

ocean floor (Rolf B. Pedersen, Director, Centre for Geobiology, University of Bergen) 14:45 Coffee break 15:00 Marine minerals from a Russian perspective (Georgy A. Cherkashov, Deputy Director,

Institute for Geology and Mineral Resources of the Ocean, St. Petersburg, Russia.) 15:45 Recent trends in deep sea minerals R & D (Prof. David Cronan, Imperial College, London) 16:15 Towards developing a regulatory regime for deep sea mining - the Cook Islands perspective

(Paul Lynch, Cook Islands Seabed Minerals Authority ) 16:45 Metallogeny of deep ocean ridges and their equivalents on land (Dr. Terje Bjerkgård,

Geological Survey of Norway, NGU) 17:15 Discussion 17:30 Closure 18:00 Dinner

Wednesday November 21 09:00 The International Seabed Authority (ISA) licensing regime for deep seabed mining (Harald

Brekke, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, member of the Legal and Technical Commission; ISA)

09:30 Exploration methods for localizing massive sulfide deposits on the seafloor (Dr. Cornel E.J. de Ronde, GNS Science, New Zealand)

10:00 Subsea technology development for deep sea mining (Thomas Parenteau, Technip, France) 10:30 Coffee break 10:45 Consequences of deep-ocean resource extraction on deep-sea ecosystem resilience,

function and recovery (Dr. Andrew Kvassnes Sweetman, Norwegian Insititute for Water Research NIVA)

11:15 Ocean mining activities at NTNU (Martin Ludvigsen, Director, Aur-Lab, Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU)

11:45 Commercial Ocean Mining in Norway? (Prof. Fredrik Søreide / Dr. Steinar Ellefmo, Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU)

12:00 Roundtable discussion 13:00 Closure and lunch

Registration and information Registration to the workshop before November 1st, use the following link (open from October

1st) www.ngu.no/oceanmining Registration fee is NOK 500,-. Please be aware that there will be limitations on the number of participants, and the first to

register will have priority. Trondheim in Norway can be easily reached by plane, train or bus. Detailed information on how

to travel to Trondheim is found under http://www.trondheim.no/howtogethere/ The Geological Survey of Norway (NGU) is situated in Leiv Eirikssons vei 39, NO-7491

Trondheim. It can be reached from Trondheim city centre with the public busses number 3 (destination LADE) and number 4 (destination LADE). Please leave the bus at the bus stop called RINGVE SKOLE from where you can see a sign showing in which direction you have to walk to reach NGU. Estimated price from the city centre to NGU by Taxi is NOK 150-200.

Hotels: www.booking.com or book at the Rica Nidelven Hotel using NGU discount (NOK 1075,-). Please send an email to the hotel (rica.nidelven.hotel@rica.no) with subject ’workshop 'Deep sea mining in Norway' - Code NGU. Hotel phone number: (+47) 73 56 80 00