Thank you for participating in #CERF2025!
We're so grateful to @soffox.bsky.social and all of our 2025 #RisingTIDES scholars for their participation in #CERF2025!
📢The winner in our raffle/lottery at #CERF2025
@cerfscience.bsky.social is....
... Whitney Scheffel at Pensacola & Perdido Bays Estuary Program! Congratulations 🎉
The winner gets a DST CTD or CT conductivity logger with accessories, suitable for i.e. estuary research and environmental monitoring 🌊
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Today's #CERF2025 highlight is the 1,000+ talks & posters! CERF conferences are a great place to stay up to date on the latest in #coastal and #estuarine science, management, & education. The range of topics demonstrates the interdisciplinary nature of CERF conferences.
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Today's #CERF2025 highlight is the opening ceremony w/welcome remarks from Pres Linda Blum, conference co-chairs, and Dana Adkins, a citizen of the Chickahominy Indian Tribe, as well as the achievement awards presentation & keynote address by Carlos Duarte
📷: José R. Vázquez
At #CERF2025, MARACOOS and NOAA NCCOS presented an integrated approach to HAB monitoring in Chesapeake Bay—pulling together observations and modeling to better track bloom conditions. Additional highlights included CBEFS updates and new insights on NJ back-bay water levels.
Check out this wonderful story from the Virgin Islands Source about the many University of the Virgin Islands attendees at #CERF2025 last week. We were thrilled to have them there to share their science and participate in all aspects of the conference.
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Artwork depicting hands holding oysters, a man on a boat, hands shucking oysters, and oysters on the half shell. Text: CERF 2025 28th Biennial Conference 9-13 November 2025 / Richmond, Virginia
What a week! Despite the challenges & uncertainty, we are grateful that 1500+ people were able to join us at #CERF2025 for cutting-edge presentations, reunions with old friends, connections with new colleagues, & a strong sense of community. We’ll be sharing highlights all week—stay tuned!
Congratulations to my SEES Queens College Masters student Julia Sandke for presenting a terrific poster yesterday on #phytoplankton and #waterquality in #LongIslandSound at #CERF2025! #NYSeaGrant
Landscape shot just before sunset, sun near center of image, with line of older houses and water tower below, calm water below that, picket fence below that, boardwalk at bottom center, with more water on either side. A woman (Grace Molino) steps out of the water behind the picket fence onto the boardwalk, causing ripples, backlit by the sun and its reflection, casting a long shadow on the boardwalk. She appears mostly as a dark silhouette, hair and face down, laden with bags and things she is carrying, wearing boots. Some blades of marsh grass polk up from the foreground water, and shadowy reflections of the picket fence and the houses are cast foreward onto the water below in the image. The image overall is gray, faintly blue and orange in places, with yellow orange highlights around the sun, limning the woman, and on the boardwalk. A few wet footprints reflect the sun on the baordwalk. A couple power lines cross the image at the top.
Angled down looking at a child-sized toy pushmower, plastic, pink with teal wheels and top and gray handle, somewhat sunbleached. It sits in a corner of a yard, with green chain link fence at left and a black metal gate of vertical bars at right, in the edge of a shallow pool of brownish water that continues under the camera, on sparse mown marshgrass, beside a concrete sidewalk, partially buried in wrack of beige senesced marsh plant stems and leaves.
The field crew- four adults, in boots, various shades of beige pants that are mostly at least partially wet, variously colored tops, and wearing hats and backpacks, one with a yellow meter stick poking out- slosh away from the camera near the middle of the frame, in calf-dep water, which persists throughout the image. They are walking down the middle of a street on Tangier; the foreground shows a manhole cover in a broadening of the street. Slight ripples and white bubbles trail behind them. To their left is a somewhat crooked white picket fence with green plants sprouting at the bottom, and to the right is a waist-high chainlink fence, with taller plants behind. Behind the fences are one- to two-story houses, lawn ornaments, and raised dark green golf carts. On the right are telephone poles, and electrical wires criscross the sky above, with a lit streetlight on the pole above their heads, though it is a cloudy gray daylight in the sky above their heads. In front of them in the distance is a seemingly lone (or perhaps double), somewhat sparse tree.
If you, unlike me, are at #CERF2025, consider checking out this year's "transgression session" today in E10-C, 10-2:30, starting w/ Justus Jobe on forest *regeneration* before transgressing marsh, & wrapped w/ Matt Kirwan presenting our study of marsh lawns of Tangier Island (2:15). We have stories!
talk title: exploring fungal-Spartina interactions along an elevation gradient to inform carbon dynamics in salt marshes. Date and time: 11/13/2025 at 2;00PM Room E10-D
mya laying in spartina patens eating a beef stick
Are you still at CERF tomorrow at 2???
Then you should come to my talk and learn about Spartina (alterniflora and patens a double whammy 👀), fungi, and carbon (oh my)!!
You’ll get to see why I had to lie down every sampling point to have snack time this past field season!!!
#CERF2025
Stop by Booth 305 to connect with our Silver Sponsor and Conference Mentorship Program Sponsor, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science—celebrating 100 years! 🎉 Visit umces100.org to learn more!
#CERF2025 #CERF2025Sponsor #UMCES
Congratulations to my PHD student Georgie Humphries @asrc-gc.bsky.social for sharing her poster on our recent trial AUV #phytoplankton and #waterquality survey in #JamaicaBay. #CERF2025
📣 Don't forget to drop by our booth at #CERF2025 @cerfscience.bsky.social and take part in our raffle/lottery by filling out a ticket. Win a DST CTD conductivity logger and accessories! #salinitylogger #OceanResearch #conductivitylogger #MarineResearch #appliedmarinescience #marinemonitoring
📣 Don't forget to drop by our booth at #CERF2025
@cerfscience.bsky.social and take part in our raffle/lottery by filling out a ticket. Win a DST CTD conductivity logger and accessories!
#salinitylogger #OceanResearch #conductivitylogger #MarineResearch #appliedmarinescience #marinemonitoring
A big thank-you to our Bronze Sponsor, William & Mary’s Batten School of Coastal & Marine Sciences and Virginia Institute of Marine Science, for sponsoring the CERF 2025 lanyards and supporting this year’s conference! #CERF2025 #CERF2025Sponsors
Student & Early Career Night Out at Siné Irish Pub on Mon, Nov 10 at 9 PM! All are welcome to join.
Want to walk over with a group? Meet in the Marriott Lobby at 8:45 or 9:15 PM.
#CERF2025 #StudentNightOnTheTown
#CERF2025 Virginia Sea Grant thanks for the assist! The shark appears to love its new home!
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Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation CERF
#greatwhiteshark #greatwhite #tiltcurrentmeter #datalogger #datalogging #science
Your people are waiting (and yes, there will be snacks). 🍴
Affinity Group Night on the Town! Meet in the Marriott Lobby to walk to Siné. Free apps while they last, plus drinks and food for purchase. More info at: bit.ly/2025nightonth...
#CERF2025 #AffinityGroupNightOnTheTown
🌊 We are up and running at #CERF2025 @cerfscience.bsky.social
📍 Come by our booth for a chat with our ocean expert. We have a broad selection of loggers for environmental monitoring.
#salinitylogger #OceanResearch #conductivitylogger #MarineResearch #appliedmarinescience #marinemonitoring
The Coastal Ecosystem and Watersheds Lab is at CERF this year! Check out our mainly restoration presentations! @cerfscience.bsky.social #CERF2025
I’m excited and very grateful to be in Richmond for #CERF2025 as a Riding TIDES scholar! I’ll be giving a talk Monday at 1:15pm in the Eco-evolutionary dynamics in coastal ecosystems under global change session. Feel free to reach out if you’re here, I’d love to connect!
✨ Low Sensory Room (E24-AB): A quiet space open all day to relax and unwind.
🎨 Family Friendliness Room (E25-B): Bring your little ones for games, toys, and CERF coloring fun!
#CERF2025 #FamilyFriendliness #InclusiveCulture
Who's going to be at CERF @cerfscience.bsky.social next week in Richmond? Stop by and say hi to Scott at booth 210 #CERF2025
Who's going to be at CERF cerfscience.bsky.social next week in Richmond? Stop by and say hi to Scott at booth 210
#CERF2025
📍 We are soon heading to the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) 2025 Biennial Conference #CERF2025 in Richmond, VA, US! Our team is looking forward to meet with the ocean monitoring community 🌊
#appliedmarinescience #marinemonitoring #oceanresearch #OceanResearch #MarineResearch
I have a PhD student looking to share a room at #CERF2025 next week. Anyone looking to lower costs with a roommate?
Final call! 🏨 Today’s your last chance to book within the CERF 2025 room blocks. Secure your stay before rates increase once they close! Visit conference.cerf.scie... for booking details. #CERF2025
📢 Don’t forget—CERF 2025 needs judges for student presentations! Sign up through the registration form or fill out the Google Form below if you’ve already registered.
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#CERF2025 #StudentPresentationAwards #JudgesNeeded
Share your knowledge, shape the future 🌊 CERF 2025 is seeking mentors to guide the next generation of coastal and estuarine scientists. You can sign up through the registration form, or if you’ve already registered, email the CERF office to be added. #CERF2025 #MentorshipProgram