• Kick-off meeting

• First Semestrial SUMARE meeting + Workshop, Sophia-Antipolis (France), 21–22 June 2000. The workshop was held on the first day. Its main objective was to have presentations from several laboratories involved in the SUMARE project. The second day was devoted to the semestrial SUMARE meeting. An action list arising from that meeting is available.
  

• Second Semestrial SUMARE meeting + Workshop, 13–14 December 2000. The workshop (entitled Navigation of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles) took place at Villefranche-sur-Mer (France) on Dec.13 and consisted of a series of technical presentations, followed by at sea demonstrations of work in progress in the project, with the autonomous underwater vehicle MAUVE. The semestrial SUMARE meeting took place on Dec.14 in Sofia Antipolis.
  

• Third Semestrial SUMARE meeting, Ostend, 6 July 2001.
  

• Underwater Robotics for Ocean Modelling and Monitoring, 17–18 December 2001 (see program). This meeting organised by the SUMARE project took place in Sofia Antipolis.
  

• SUMARE Semestrial meeting, 16 October 2002, Lisbon. Meeting report.
  

• SUMARE meeting + Workshop, 15–16 October 2003, Villefranche sur mer. Program and presentations. See also pictures of this meeting.
  

• Annual meeting of the ICES working group on the effects of extraction of marine sediments on the marine ecosystem (WGEXT), Gdansk (Poland) 11–14 April 2000, on the kind invitation of the Polish Geological Institute. Presentation of the SUMARE project by HWU/MUMM and I3S. The WGEXT is considered as a possible end-users group of SUMARE. A mission report is available.

• First Concertation meeting of "IST applications for the protection of the Environment", Brussels (Belgium), 4–5 May 2000. Contributions in Session I, "Coastal maritime and inland waters" and in Parallel Session VII, "Data capture / sensor technologies".

• Ocean 2000, Providence (USA), 11–14 September 2000. Presentation on "Using Field Subspaces for On-Line Survey Guidance" by I3S.

• Workshop on Marine Robotics and Underwater Acoustics, Hannover (Germany), 21–22 September 2000. Presentation made by I3S.

• ICES Annual Scientific Conference, Brugge (Belgium), . Presentation on "Using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for Seabed Habitat Mapping" in theme session on classification and mapping of marine habitat, by I3S and HWU/ICIT.
  

• Conference and Showcase on Unmanned Underwater Vehicles, 27–28 September 2000, Southamption Oceanography Centre (UK). Participation of A. Pollentier (MUMM). A report is available to SUMARE partners.

• Nato Unclassified Mines Counter Measures Development Shop Window, La Spezia (Italy), 18–19 October 2000. Description of the SUMARE project via a presentation on "Extended AUV Operational Ranges Using Active Observation".
  

• Automation Conference, Monterrey (Mexico), 10–12 November 2000. Presentation by I3S.

• OCEANS 2001, Hawai, USA, November 5-8 2001, see web site at http://www.oceans2001.com. Talks by SUMARE partners: (1) João Rendas, Albert Tenas, and J-P Folcher, "Image Segmentation by Unsupervised Adaptive Clustering in the Distribution Space for AUV guidance along sea-bed boundaries using Vision"; (2) Jean-Pierre Folcher and Maria-João Rendas, "Identification and Control of the Phantom 500 XTL Body Motion" ; (3) Stefan Rolfes, Joao Rendas, "Statistical Habitat Maps for Robot Localisation in Unstructured Environments"
  

• CETSIS (Colloque sur l'Enseignement des Technologies et des Sciences de
  l'Information), Clermont-Ferrand, France, Octobre 2001,
  http://cetsis.univ-bpclermont.fr/
  J.P Folcher, J. Rendas, S. Rolfes, "Une plate-forme expérimentale
  pour l'automatique : le robot sous-matin Phantom 500SP".
  

• SIRS' 2001 (Int. Symp. on Intellgent Robotic Systems), Toulouse
  (France), 18-20 July 2001. Stefan Rolfes and Joao Rendas, "Statistical environment representation for navigation in natural environments".

• IARP, International Advanced Robotics Programme,
  1st Int. Workshop on Underwater Robotics for Sea Exploitation and
  Environmental Monitoring, Maria João Rendas, Stefan Rolfes and Albert Tenas, "Autonomous Mapping of Natural and Unstructured Environments".
  

• GOATS 2000 Conference, Underwater Vehicle Networks for Acoustic and Oceanographic Measurements in the Littoral Ocean, SACLANTCEN, La Spezia, Italy, 21-23 August 2001. Presentation by Alain Norro & Maria João Rendas.
  

• Cluster Meeting on IST projects on Environmental Protection Applications. Key themes: requirements for environmental information and standardisation. September 19, 2001, Brussels, Belgium. Talk given by G.Pichot.
  

• Sustainability in the Information Society, 15th Iternational Symposium, Informatics for Environmental Protection, October 10–12, 2001, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. A. Norro, D. Van den Eynde, B. Lauwaert, J. Ozer, "SUMARE, a tool dedicated to sustainable exploitation of sand banks off the Belgian coast".
  

• Underwater Technology 2002, April 16–19, 2002, Tokyo, Japan. M.-J.Rendas & Y.Hebrard, "The underwater vehicle MAUVE: a user-friendly tool for coastal survey".
  

• ICES Annual Science Conference 2002, October 1–5, 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark. A.Norro, V.Pison & A.Ozer, "Volumetric evolution of an exploited sandbank. Perspective of use for the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) MAUVE".
  Conference web site: http://www.ices.dk/asc/2002/
  

• ISESS 2003, May 27–30, Vienna, Austria. M.-J.Rendas, S.Rolfes & M.Thomson, Maerl mapping with an underwater vehicle using vision.
  

• ISESS 2003, May 27–30, Vienna, Austria. M.-J.Rendas, M.-I.Lourtie & G.Pichot, Adaptive sampling for sand bank mapping using autonomous underwater vehicle equiped of an altimeter.
  

• 13th International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 25-30, 2003. A.Norro, V.Pison & J.Ozer, Monitoring the Exploitation of Sandbanks: Lessons from Conventional Surveys and Perspectives Opened by AUV.
  

• UUVS 2003 Unmaned Underwater Vehicle Showcase, Southampton Oceanograpohic centre, UK, 24-25 September 2003. M.-J.Rendas, SUMARE: Adaptive AUV missions in the North Sea.
  

• International Coastal Symposium 2004. A.Norro. Long Term volumetric evolution of an exploited sandbank. Case study on the coastal Belgian North Sea Kwintebank.