upcoming events & conferences

Restore America’s Estuaries (RAE) proudly presents the 2024 Coastal & Estuarine Summit. In its 12th year, the 2024 Summit will bring together the coastal restoration and management communities to explore issues, solutions, and lessons learned in their work.

The Summit Program will address all aspects of coastal and estuarine restoration and management, including the Great Lakes and international locales. These topics are crucial as coastal communities pursue new, more robust strategies to effectively manage, protect, and restore their resources in a changing climate. Ensuring these resources, and the communities that rely on them, are resilient now and into the future will be a particular focus.

Taking place in Washington, DC on October 6-12 2024, our next Summit promises to be our largest yet, with an anticipated 1,400 attendees from around the country and abroad.

This event is dedicated to convening top developers, government officials, and key stakeholders across the industry who are working to achieve the full promise of US offshore wind.

Themes 2024
2024 has been a great year for abstract submissions, the review committee have had a huge task of reviewing them all and creating what we hope will be an interesting and engaging programme.

Themes for MATS 2024

• Theme 1 – The Blue Economy, Sustainability and Future Marine Research Infrastructure
• Theme 2 – Robotics and Remote Data Collection
• Theme 3 – Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning in the Maritime World
• Theme 4 – Autonomous Platforms: the Next Generation and Supporting Technology

The Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program (IRLNEP), hosted by the IRL Council, was created by interlocal agreement in 2015, as an independent special district of the state of Florida. The partners to the interlocal agreement, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, St. John River Water Management District, South Florida Water Management District, Volusia County, Brevard County, Indian River County, St. Lucie County, and Martin County, made commitments to provide annual funding to the IRL Council. Pursuant to the interlocal agreement, IRL Council investors serve as the Board of Directors of the IRL Council and as the policy board of the IRLNEP. Each quarter the IRL Council and Management Conference meet to discuss environmental conservation, stakeholder engagement, and project funding in the Indian River Lagoon. Each of the meetings is open to the public.

For more information visit www.onelagoon.org. To understand the guiding principles of the IRLNEP, visit the IRLNEP’s Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan – Click Here.

The Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program (IRLNEP), hosted by the IRL Council, was created by interlocal agreement in 2015, as an independent special district of the state of Florida. The partners to the interlocal agreement, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, St. John River Water Management District, South Florida Water Management District, Volusia County, Brevard County, Indian River County, St. Lucie County, and Martin County, made commitments to provide annual funding to the IRL Council. Pursuant to the interlocal agreement, IRL Council investors serve as the Board of Directors of the IRL Council and as the policy board of the IRLNEP. Each quarter the IRL Council and Management Conference meet to discuss environmental conservation, stakeholder engagement, and project funding in the Indian River Lagoon. Each of the meetings is open to the public.

For more information visit www.onelagoon.org. To understand the guiding principles of the IRLNEP, visit the IRLNEP’s Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan – Click Here.

The Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program (IRLNEP), hosted by the IRL Council, was created by interlocal agreement in 2015, as an independent special district of the state of Florida. The partners to the interlocal agreement, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, St. John River Water Management District, South Florida Water Management District, Volusia County, Brevard County, Indian River County, St. Lucie County, and Martin County, made commitments to provide annual funding to the IRL Council. Pursuant to the interlocal agreement, IRL Council investors serve as the Board of Directors of the IRL Council and as the policy board of the IRLNEP. Each quarter the IRL Council and Management Conference meet to discuss environmental conservation, stakeholder engagement, and project funding in the Indian River Lagoon. Each of the meetings is open to the public.

For more information visit www.onelagoon.org. To understand the guiding principles of the IRLNEP, visit the IRLNEP’s Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan – Click Here.

Founded in 1991, CLEAN GULF serves the evolving energy industry in prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery. It brings together the tight-knit community of environmental and emergency response professionals to learn from each other’s past experiences, build important connections, stay up-to-date on best practices and regulations, and explore the latest technologies and services advancing the industry.

The conference sessions programmed offer real-world and actionable solutions delivered by speakers from multiple perspectives, including regulators, industry professionals, consultants and environmental experts. They cover a wide variety of topics affecting the oil and gas industry in the Gulf Coast region and beyond, including issues surrounding response, planning and preparedness, ports and maritime, emerging trends, dispersants, training and exercises, and response research.