About the Scientific Program
The scientific program will consist of these types of sessions:
Symposia:
An Organized Symposium is a set of presentations organized around a particular theme. We encourage symposium submissions that will be of broad interest, as well as focus on engaging design, approaches, and/or formats. These sessions could include panel discussions, interactive approaches, and non-traditional engagement strategies, or non-traditional attendee types.
All individual presentations within a symposium will be submitted via the Call for Abstracts (which will open in mid-August.) Symposium organizers will build their session agenda from these submitted abstracts, some of which may be invited.
Symposium organizers will be responsible for reminding invited speakers to submit their abstracts, reviewing abstracts submitted to their symposium, and organizing moderators for their symposium.
General Contributed Sessions:
These will feature 20-minute individual presentations that will be grouped with similar presentations to form thematic sessions, based on selected disciplines: Fisheries; Wildlife; Human Dimensions/Outreach/Public Engagement.
Poster Session:
The Poster Session is an evening event featuring a display of 4’x4’ printed posters. Presenting authors will be available to answer attendee questions and discuss their work.
In addition to the scientific program, the Conference agenda will include workshops, related/affiliated meetings, and plenary sessions.
Call for Program Content
Symposia:
An Organized Symposium is a set of presentations organized around a particular theme. We encourage symposium submissions that will be of broad interest, as well as focus on engaging design, approaches, and/or formats. These sessions could include panel discussions, interactive approaches, and non-traditional engagement strategies, or non-traditional attendee types.
All individual presentations within a symposium will be submitted via the Call for Abstracts (which will open in mid-August.) Symposium organizers will build their session agenda from these submitted abstracts, some of which may be invited.
Symposium organizers will be responsible for reminding invited speakers to submit their abstracts, reviewing abstracts submitted to their symposium, and organizing moderators for their symposium.
General Contributed Sessions:
These will feature 20-minute individual presentations that will be grouped with similar presentations to form thematic sessions, based on selected disciplines: Fisheries; Wildlife; Human Dimensions/Outreach/Public Engagement.
Poster Session:
The Poster Session is an evening event featuring a display of 4’x4’ printed posters. Presenting authors will be available to answer attendee questions and discuss their work.
In addition to the scientific program, the Conference agenda will include workshops, related/affiliated meetings, and plenary sessions.
Call for Program Content
- Call for Workshops: Now Open - through October 2, 2026.
- Call for Abstracts: Now Open - through September 25, 2026.
- Call for Presentations and Posters: Open August 17 - September 25, 2026.
- Call for Related Meetings: Open August 17 - November 2, 2026.
- Special Symposia Announced: Read the overviews
