The 17th Biennial State of the San Francisco Estuary Conference will be held in Oakland on October 28-29, 2025. The conference planning team is holding an open call for oral, poster, and creative session presentations. 

We invite abstracts that explore the challenges and opportunities we face in enhancing environmental health and community well-being as relevant to the San Francisco Estuary. Authors are encouraged to address collaborative, interdisciplinary, and/or engaged approaches to solving Estuary ecological and community health challenges. Abstracts may also touch on topics related to science, policy and management, socioeconomic issues, and environmental education programs. Additionally, we welcome creative sessions that offer non-traditional approaches to engaging in important conversations, whether through lightning round talks, poetry slams, collaborative workshops, networking opportunities and more. We strongly encourage abstracts to draw linkages to the four Goals in the 2022 Estuary Blueprint.  

• Blueprint Goal 1: Sustain and improve the Estuary’s habitats and living resources. 
• Blueprint Goal 2: Bolster the resilience of Estuary ecosystems, shorelines, and communities to climate change. 
• Blueprint Goal 3: Improve water quality and increase the quantity of fresh water available to the Estuary. 
• Blueprint Goal 4: Champion the Estuary. 

See more information on each abstract submission track and instructions for submission below.

For additional information, contact our Conference Coordinator:

Aurice Guyton (soeconferencecomms@gmail.com)

Abstract submissions are now closed.