East Marine Ecosystems Project
In 2024, the East Marine Ecosystems (EastME) project commenced to report on the annual changes in the natural marine systems from Flamborough Head in Yorkshire to the south Suffolk border and the regions management. The EastME community produce both an annual report and a full day in person conference.
The conference aims to create networks, open communication and build relationships among people in the marine and coastal community, including citizen scientists, academics, managers, policy makers, marine industries, and dedicated volunteers, to enable regional scale reporting on the state of marine natural capital. The conference is an opportunity to reflect on annual local observations, research outputs and findings, and to make the linkages between environmental and biological phenomena through 11 thematic topics.
The eleven thematic topics of EastME include oceanography, plankton, the seabed and seashore, fisheries, seabirds and marine mammals. The management themes include planning, protected areas, water quality, coastal and estuarine habitats and plastic pollution.
In essence East Marine Ecosystems will be a programme of communication and reporting observations and findings from a wide range of current work and projects that apply to the East marine and coastal region.
The annual reports from the first three conferences held in 2024, 2025 and 2026 will be published shortly.
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2027 Conference Details
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Sponsorship
In previous years we have been generously sponsored by ABPmer and have recieved a grant from Sea-Changers. We are seeking sponsorship for the 2027 event. If you’d be interested in supporting the EastME initiative please contact us at east.marine.eco@gmail.com.
