2025 Living Shorelines Workshop Call for Proposals
ABOUT THE LIVING SHORELINES WORKSHOP
Restore America’s Estuaries (RAE) proudly presents the 2025 Living Shorelines Workshop on October 29-30, 2025 in New Haven CT, in partnership with Save the Sound. This workshop will present a unique platform to learn, engage, and exchange knowledge with professionals, experts, and stakeholders on natural infrastructure for shoreline stabilization and ecosystem conservation in the Long Island Sound region and nationwide.
The workshop includes plenary sessions, breakout workshop sessions, a poster exhibition, and field trips to local restoration sites. We welcome proposals from the professional community of practice to lead some of the breakout sessions, held in meeting rooms at the workshop venue that hold 50-100 people. This is an opportunity to engage colleagues through interactive sessions, with an emphasis on sharing ideas, technology, and lessons learned or launching new communities or tools.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Workshop Sessions
Due April 25, 2025
The Committee welcomes proposals for sessions in a wide variety of formats, including interactive workshops, hands-on tool and technology demonstrations, topic debates, design charrettes, or other engaging formats. Workshop sessions will be 90 minutes long, which may be used in any way the suits the session. Please contact Hilary Stevens at hstevens@estuaries.org with any questions.
Please submit an abstract of 250 words HERE.
Posters
Due August 31, 2025
We welcome poster submissions covering living shoreline project case studies, research, design innovations, community engagement examples, and other relevant topics. Posters will be displayed throughout the Workshop, with dedicated time for poster presenters to interact with participants. If you would like to submit more than one poster, you must submit each proposal separately. Please note that only one poster per presenter will be accepted.
Please submit an abstract of 250 words HERE.
Selection Process and Criteria
The Steering Committee will review workshop proposals in conjunction with RAE staff. Proposals will be evaluated on the following criteria:
- Significance to the restoration and/or coastal management communities.
- Applicability and transferability to other projects and locales, particularly with respect to “lessons learned;”
- Thoroughness of proposal.
The selection process is competitive and not all submitted proposals will be accepted into the Workshop Program.
All Workshop attendees, including speakers and poster presenters, must register and pay the registration fee to participate in the Workshop. If you are submitting on behalf of other speakers, please make sure everyone in your session understands this requirement. Financial assistance for registration will be available in limited quantities.
