CERF 2025 Conference Theme

Estuaries: Tradition and Transition

The theme for the CERF 2025 Conference is “Estuaries: Tradition and Transition” to encompass the history of estuarine research while understanding emerging challenges and future opportunities. Our planned program draws on the deep heritage of estuarine science in the Chesapeake Bay region where we started and where CERF 2025 will be held, but embraces how estuarine and coastal research, management, and education are world-wide and of more importance than ever. 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 communication.