EAST Region Marine Ecosystems (EASTME) 2025 conference
Reporting Annual Change at a Regional Scale & Building Social Capital
Tue, 13 May 2025 08:45 – 16:30 BST
David Chaddick Building, University of Lincoln
The EAST Marine Ecosystems (EASTME) is a project that started earlier this year to test the idea of annual reporting on the state of the marine environment on a regional scale in the East MMO Region extending from Flamborough Head in Yorkshire to the south Suffolk Border.
Given the success of its first conference in May 2024, the EASTME regional steering group is pleased to announce the EASTME conference will be back in 2025!
EASTME 2nd Conference, 13th May 2025, Lincoln
The conference team is pleased to announce that 2025 tickets are now available! At just £35 a ticket, the conference is designed to be as accessible as possible.
A full programme will be circulated in the new year but if you know you are able to attend, please don’t hesitate to purchase a ticket now.
Throughout the day there will be ample networking and discussion time alongside collective presentations giving updates on the following topics relevant to the English East coast:
- Oceanography, Plankton & Productivity
- Seabed and Seashore
- Marine & Coastal birds
- Marine mammals: seals and cetaceans
- Fish & Fisheries, and Shellfish
- Marine planning in the EAST Region
- Coastal & Estuarine Habitats
- Marine Protected Areas
- Water Quality: Sewage, Storm Overflows and Other Pollutants
- Plastic Pollution & Marine Debris
- Energy in the Marine Environment
Checkout 2024’s conference programme here
Would you like to be part of an EASTME Community of Practice?
The conference talks are created via eleven EASTME Communities of Practice (CoPs), one for each thematic topic. The CoPs exist to promote cross-institutional and interdisciplinary communication on relevant topics within the East region. The CoPs are made up of academics, industry reps, relevant authorities, NGOs, researchers, highly committed volunteers, practitioners and many others that can provide an update on progress on that thematic topic for the year. CoP meetings will be convened several times a year online and are highly participative with all attendees being asked to contribute information to the presentation/annual report. COP members should be practitioners, whether professionals or volunteers, actively working on the topics to take part in these CoP meetings to canvas a wide range of views on key events and changes in the relevant year.
If you would like to express an interest in joining one or more CoPs, please email east.marine.eco@gmail.com. If you have a general interest in the topics please attend the conference.
The EASTME Regional Steering Group also has a dedicated mailing list which will be used to circulate additional information about the conference and CoPs throughout the year. Please sign up here to receive emails from EASTME.
Kind regards
EAST Marine Ecosystems