Underwater Mining Conference
K.G. Jebsen Centre For Deep Sea Research is co-organizing the Underwater Mining Conference, UMC2018, in Bergen September 10th-14th, bringing together leaders from government, academia and industry to discuss the latest ideas about seafloormining.
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The International Marine Minerals Society (IMMS) and the University of Hawai’i present, and the K.G. Jebsen Centre for Deep Sea Research (University of Bergen) in partnership with the Global Centres of Expertise (GCE) Subsea host, the 47th Underwater Mining Conference (UMC18) to be held in Bergen, Norway.
The deep sea has been an area for pioneering exploration and groundbreaking science. Today the exploration of the deep sea presents itself as a frontier for technological development, parallel to resource exploration, with many nations claiming large seafloor areas for mineral exploitation.
This year the UMC18 strategically harvest the current marine R&D knowledge and bring it forward into the prospective development of subsea solutions for deep sea mining beyond oil and gas.
Norway has been pivotal in subsea innovative approaches with the Bergen area collectively working as a global knowledge hub by hosting excellence deep-sea marine research and a cluster of 100+ R&D and industrial partners (GCE).
Our 2018 technical program focuses on the scientific and technological aspects of deep-sea mining. It will be an exciting conference for the examination of the next commercial and technical developments regarding deep-sea minerals, deep-sea mining and metallurgical processing of marine mineral resources.
The Underwater Mining Conference (UMC, previously the Underwater Mining Institute) brings together leaders from academia, industry, and government who share a common interest in marine mining and exploration. For more than four decades, over 25 nations have been represented at this annual forum to exchange ideas, seek expertise, and share in the excitement of this evolving industry. The oversight committee that supervises the conference is the International Marine Minerals Society (IMMS). At its 2014 annual meeting, the Executive Board of IMMS voted to change the name of the annual meeting to its current designation as the UMC.
