Save the Date for CERF 2025! 

Please join us at the CERF 2025 conference on 9–13 November 2025 in Richmond, Virginia, USA, to network, celebrate our work, learn from each other, and grow within our amazing field as we endeavor to connect science and society in the collective goals of preserving coastal and estuarine habitats, resources, and heritage.

We come together in an inclusive and welcoming space to network, celebrate our work, learn from each other, and grow within our amazing field as we endeavor to connect science and society in the collective goals of preserving coastal and estuarine habitats, resources, and heritage. We hope you will join the large international group of scientists and researchers who will be attending the 2025 event!

2025 Call for Session, Workshop, and Design Team Proposals

The Scientific Program Committee for the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation’s 28th Biennial Conference (CERF 2025) invites proposals for Scientific Sessions, Workshops, Collab Sessions, and Design Competition Teams.

We invite topics and interest groups that include knowledge created by local Tribes, watermen and other coastal citizens, and Western scientists while exploring emerging scientific trends and novel tools such as environmental DNA, new remote sensing technologies, and artificial intelligence. Our theme also encompasses approaches to weaving together these different ways of knowing to address the pressing coastal and estuarine issues facing the world today. It affirms CERF’s longstanding emphasis on management implications, education, and communication. This theme embraces the past, present, and future of coastal and estuarine science, management and communications.

You are welcome to submit more than one proposal either within a proposal type (e.g., two scientific session proposals) or across types (e.g., one scientific session proposal and one workshop proposal). Submissions close Friday, 17 January, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET.

Learn More & Submit a Proposal