Participation in the ICOM-CC Directory Board meeting, Ottawa [6th December, 2001] & Visit to the Warren Lasch Conservation Centre, Charleston, South Carolina, [December, 2001]. Travel to Nara, Japan to the International Congress on Archaeological Science and to deliver a public lecture [12-17th February, 2002]. In-situ corrosion research on WWII Japanese merchant vessels, Chuuk Lagoon, Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia, April-May 2002 : preliminary report.