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Themes of RITMER

The actions of RITMER must be specific and targeted to the following themes:

1. The characterisation of transported products:
   • physico-chemical behaviour after a spill
   • impacts on the ecosystems (ecotoxicology) and temporal evolution.
   
   
2. Technologies for tracking and monitoring of pollutants (on the sea surface, underwater, in sand…) :
   • prediction of drift (modelling, quantification, evolution, transport)
   • observation and monitoring of drift (airborne tools, instruments, methods of tracking, surveillance and monitoring at the surface and underwater).
   
   
3. The recuperation and treatment of pollutants at sea and on land:
   • treatment products
   • techniques of implementation
   • techniques of confinement and of recuperation.
   
   
4. Management of the wrecks:
   • immediate confinement
   • in situ monitoring
   • technologies of intervention and surveillance
   • surveillance after intervention.
   
   
5. Management of risks with respect to the ecosystems:
   • vulnerability indices and sensitivity maps
   • prediction and evaluation of impacts (particularly on the food chain)
   • decision-making tools.
   
   
6. Technologies for the protection and rehabilitation of sensitive sites and ecosystems:
   • littoral zone improvements
   • mobile techniques of intervention
   • techniques for avoiding contacts and transfers to threatened surfaces and species
   • techniques for biological rehabilitation.
   
   
7. Treatment technologies for the collected waste (transformation of the waste into a final form) :
   • storage
   • treatment
   • elimination.
   
   
8. Methods of managing the risks:
   • identification of risks
   • management of the crisis.
   
   

Remarks:

• The phrase "research and technological innovations " must be taken in it's broadest sense: the projects of RITMER can impact on the methodologies and procedures of treatment, or of rehabilitation, on methods of cleaning, on models, on research for operational goals.
• Socio-economic research is outside the scope of RITMER, except if the project is a part of a technological project.
• The establishment of a "time zero" condition for a given ecosystem, while essentiel for evaluating the impacts of a given accident, is also outside the scope of RITMER.

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Videos

Residues from heating and bubbling of heavy crude at 350 m deep, coming from the HAVEN accident - 1991 - Golfe de Gênes. 597Kb - 16s

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