Conference Updates, and Some Papers I've Been Reading

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In some recent good news, I submitted at abstract for a presentation to Restore America’s Estuaries’ (RAE) 2022 Coastal and Estuarine Summit, and it got accepted! Due to a number of circumstances, including the ongoing pandemic, I unfortunately have never had the chance to present my research or a paper at a scientific conference or any other professional conference during my time as a master’s student. This will be my first one, and I’m really happy about that.

The presentation will be about the work outlined in my first-ever peer reviewed publication, which I talked about briefly at The Liminal. I also posted the abstract of that paper on this blog recently, and the abstract I submitted for the presentation is essentially the same.

I also recently attended my first Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (SSEC)! I’d always wanted to attend one of these since I began setting my sights on coming to the Seattle area for graduate school, but again, circumstances. :) It would have been nice to attend as a presenter, but I’m glad I got the chance to attend at all, thanks to a fee waiver from the organizers. I also got to serve as a volunteer judge for poster presentations and it was really exciting to see what folks were researching and producing!

SSEC is organized by the Salish Sea Institute, which released a comprehensive report last year called The State of the Salish Sea, which you can read if you’re interested. There’s also a 90-minute “symposium” talk that accompanies the report, if you’d prefer a presentation instead. I might post my thoughts on SSEC 2022 in a later post, but the conference already feels like a lifetime ago.

Finally, here’s a quick list of recently published papers I’ve been looking at, mostly from the Frontiers family of open access journals (yay open access!). These are papers I recommend reading if you’re at all interested in ecosystem restoration, marine science, Indigenous knowledge, and/or seagrasses!