Event Calendar

Registration for the GCOOS Spring Members Meeting will close at the end of the day on April 8. Please register now to ensure you have a spot at the meeting and to receive the block room rate.

• What: GCOOS Spring Meeting
• When: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 9 and 8:30 a.m. to noon May 10
• Where: Texas A&M University Galveston’s Waterfront Pavilion, Galveston
• Hotel: Tremont Hotel, 2300 Ship’s Mechanic Row, Galveston, Texas, 77550. The room block rate is $179 (or $95 federal) but in order to receive that rate, you must register via our online form.

Click here to register now

This workshop for STEM teachers highlights how coastal
ecosystems change in response to processes like storms and sea
level rise. The workshop will focus on the history and ecology
of Deer Island. Teachers will explore transitions among beach,
marsh, upland, and subtidal habitats during a field excursion to
collect elevation profile data. Teachers will synthesize the data
for comparison with past data collection efforts. This workshop
offers teachers the opportunity to learn outdoors and gain the
knowledge to teach advanced marine science subjects, including
coastal restoration and resilience. Teachers will receive stipend
and CEU support.

Join us for this workshop on promoting community resilience to coastal hazards like rising sea level. Participating teachers (7th-12th grade) will work in teams to explore historic flooding in their neighborhoods, consider factors that increase community resilience, address an authentic community
resilience challenge, and present their solution. They will model the activity and receive the manual to instruct their students. Selected teams of students that complete the module will be invited to present solutions to resilience professionals at the MEC Stewardship Summit. This workshop is a collaboration with USM’s Marine Education Center and MSU’s Coastal Research and Extension Center through the NASA Science Activation Program
(SCI-ACT).

Every summer, LDWF hosts the Wetland Education Teacher Workshop, or WETshop, a week-long, coastal awareness workshop for teachers. Through WETshop, teachers work with scientists to learn about Louisiana coastal wetlands, issues, and history. WETshop focuses on making teachers into wetland stewards so they can educate their coworkers and students in their home parishes about coastal land loss and restoration. Workshop experiences provide teachers ideas to incorporate Louisiana phenomena-based science into the classroom at all grade levels. After teachers complete the workshop, we encourage them to implement a 6-hour wetland stewardship project in their parish with their students and community.

During WETshop, teachers will learn about and experience:

• Fisheries management
• Research trawling and seining
• Barrier islands and their role in coastal health
• Coastal botany and ornithology, including a visit to a brown pelican rookery
• Water quality testing along fresh to saltwater gradient
• Visits to transitional coastal ecosystems
• A tour of one of the largest oil ports in the United States
• Visits to coastal restoration and oil spill impact sites
• The role of invasive species in coastal land loss.

Participating teachers will receive a Wonders of Wetlands teacher guidebook and numerous classroom resources and have the opportunity to network with wetland scientists. They will also earn 55 professional contact hours after completing this workshop. There is a stipend available for participating teachers for both the summer workshop and implementation of the stewardship project during the following academic year.

MME (Massachusetts Marine Educators) is excited to host the NMEA 2024 annual conference—a
special event that brought together hundreds of professional educators dedicated to teaching
about our marine, coastal and aquatic environments.
NMEA members are a group of inspired, passionate people who promote the conservation,
enjoyment, and wise use of our aquatic resources by teaching others. We look forward to
showcasing our beautiful region through inspirational speakers, field adventures and excursions,
engaging presentations, institutional collaborations, and community partnerships.
The NMEA 2024 Conference committee is busily working on all the logistics! As soon as we know –
we’ll let you know! Please contact us at with any questions.
For all conference details, see https://www.marine-ed.org/conference/2024.

MME (Massachusetts Marine Educators) is excited to host the NMEA 2024 annual conference—a
special event that brought together hundreds of professional educators dedicated to teaching
about our marine, coastal and aquatic environments.
NMEA members are a group of inspired, passionate people who promote the conservation,
enjoyment, and wise use of our aquatic resources by teaching others. We look forward to
showcasing our beautiful region through inspirational speakers, field adventures and excursions,
engaging presentations, institutional collaborations, and community partnerships.
The NMEA 2024 Conference committee is busily working on all the logistics! As soon as we know –
we’ll let you know! Please contact us at with any questions.
For all conference details, see https://www.marine-ed.org/conference/2024.

Texas Sea Grant has been working on programmatic development for the inclusion of advanced technologies as intervening solutions for coastal resilience and adaptation. Working through 2023 Sea Grant coastal adaptation and resilience institutional funding, Texas Sea Grant aims to increase awareness in engineering and technology that helps decision-making around coastal energy transition, marine debris and sustainable consumption, natural and nature-based solutions, and early warning systems for coastal hazards.

Towards this end, we have planned the Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Conference scheduled for September 18-19, 2024, to inform coastal communities including decision-makers, elected officials, city and county staff, natural resource managers, academics, the private sector, etc. of technology and engineering solutions that address the four thematic topic areas below:

1.     Coastal Energy Transition

2.     Marine Debris and Circular Economy

3.     Natural and Nature-based Solutions

4.     Early Warning Systems for Coastal Hazards