Save the Date!

April 28-30, 2025

Yakima Convention and Event Center

Important Dates

  • Early Bird Registration: January 6 – February 9, 2025*
  • Standard Registration: February 10 – April 7, 2025*

*dates are subject to change

Call for Abstracts Now Open

Abstracts for presentations, posters, and film festival are being accepted until October 25, 2024.

Presentations will be in-person. There will be no pre-recorded presentations.

Abstract Guidance

Consider the following when crafting your abstracts:

  • What kinds of innovations are you using in partnerships, projects, communications, coordination, community involvement, funding, etc
  • How do you integrate salmon recovery with economic, cultural, agricultural, health, commercial fishing, and comprehensive plan pressures
  • How does your work reflect diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice?

Sessions

  • Adaptive Management
  • Climate Change
  • Cultural Resources
  • Dam Removal/Reintroduction
  • Education and Outreach/Communication
  • Emerging Science
  • Environmental Justice
  • Estuary and Tidal
  • Fish Passage
  • Floodplains
  • Habitat Complexity
  • Marine Environment
  • Monitoring
  • Non-Salmonid Species (beaver, lamprey, orca, etc)
  • Policy and Regulation
  • Project Management
  • Restoration
  • Riparian
  • Tribal Ecological Knowledge
  • Tribal Treaty Rights
  • Water Quality and Quantity

Presentation Guidelines

We encourage proposals that cross disciplines; incorporate aspects of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice; and are applicable and engaging to a wide range of participants.

Oral Presentations

Concurrent sessions will be one and a half hours long, with up to five, fifteen-minute presentations (ten minutes for presentation, five minutes for questions).

Please integrate the following into your submittal:

  • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
  • Tribal Perspectives
  • Lessons Learned
  • New Ideas
  • Partnerships

Posters

Posters should be printed on foamcore for display on an easel, with a maximum size of 30″ wide by 40″ tall and use graphic elements such as charts, tables, graphs, photos, or drawings along with text. Simplicity makes more of an impact on the viewer than a cluttered poster with a lot of tiny text. If you are unable to print your poster on foamcore, please email conferences@wwu.edu to arrange alternative display options. 

Poster presenters are expected to be available to discuss their posters with conference participants during the poster session (late afternoon on the first day of the conference) and, if possible, during breaks over the course of the conference.

Film Festival

We invite you to submit a short film or video highlighting projects related to salmon recovery and watershed efforts. To participate, please include a brief description of your film along with a URL link. Depending on the final conference agenda, films may be featured during the Monday evening networking session or at other times throughout the conference.

Submission Guidelines

Please select the appropriate session and submit the abstract for your oral presentation or poster through the abstract submission site by 11:59 p.m., Friday, October 25, 2024. You will be notified about the status of your proposal submission by mid-December.

  • Abstracts should provide a brief overview of the approach and key findings to be presented at the conference.
  • Abstracts should include enough detail to allow reviewers to fully understand the intent and content of the presentation or poster.
  • Abstract length is limited to six hundred words.
  • Spell out all acronyms and abbreviations the first time they are used in your abstract.
  • If accepted, the abstract will be included in the online conference program, so it should be engaging and easy to understand for a general audience.

For questions regarding the conference, please contact jeannie.abbott@gsro.wa.gov.

For issues with your submission or the portal, please contact conferences@wwu.edu.

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