EAST Region Marine Ecosystems (EASTME) 2025 conference
Reporting Annual Change at a Regional Scale & Building Social Capital
Photo credit: Anthony Hurd
Given the success of the first EASTME conference in 2024, we are pleased to announce that EASTME is back! EASTME is a recently developed programme focusing on communication, reporting observations and findings from a wide range of current work and projects occurring between Flamborough Head to the south Suffolk border.
The EASTME conference will be held on Tuesday 13th May 2025 in Lincoln, with tickets at just £35 each. The event is open to all, including local volunteers, students, academics, local government, policy teams and more.
Buy your ticket here!
Don’t hesitate to book your place, a programme will be circulated soon.
Throughout the day there will be networking opportunities, alongside collective presentations giving updates on the following topics relevant to the English East coast:
- Oceanography, Plankton & Productivity
- Seabed & Seashore
- Marine & Coastal Birds
- Marine mammals: Seals & Cetaceans
- Fish, Fisheries & Shellfish
- Marine Planning in the East region
- Coastal & Estuarine Habitats
- Marine Protected Areas
- Water Quality: Sewage, Storm Overflows & Other Pollutants
- Plastic Pollution & Marine Debris
- Energy in the Marine Environment
For an idea of what the day might look like, check out 2024’s conference archive
Would you like to be part of an EASTME Community of Practice?
The conference talks are developed from 11 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 topic. The CoP meetings are convened several times a year online and are highly participative with all attendees being asked to contribute information for the presentation/annual report.
If you would like to express an interest in joining one or more CoP, 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
EASTME Team