Tickets are £35 plus a booking fee, with limited discounts available for students. To find out more contact east.marine.eco@gmail.com.

The day 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 EASTME project forms part of the Natural Capital approaches at the land-sea interface (LSI) project, which is being led by the Environment Agency under Defra’s Marine Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (mNCEA) programme. The proposed work will deliver the LSI project’s work package on ‘Mobilising marine social capital’.

Location of the conference and car parking information: Stephen Langton Building, University of Lincoln, LN1 1RD. View it on maps here. We recommend using the train to attend but there are a number of large public parking spaces nearby. We have listed some suggestions below.

Lincoln Central car park – approx. 15-minute walk, open 24 hours, ANPR pay on exit

https://www.lincoln.gov.uk/directory-record/53/lincoln-central-multi-storey-

Lucy Tower car park – approx. 10-minute walk (with stairs), open 24 hours, pay & display

https://www.lincoln.gov.uk/directory-record/59/lucy-tower-street

Tentercroft street car park – approx. 12-minute walk, open 24 hours, pay & display

https://www.lincoln.gov.uk/directory-record/66/tentercroft-street

NCP Lincoln High Street – approx. 7-minute walk, open 24 hours, pre-booking or ANPR pay on exit

https://www.ncp.co.uk/find-a-car-park/car-parks/lincoln-high-street/

NCP Brayford Street – approx. 7-minute walk, open 24 hours, pre-booking or ANPR pay on exit

https://www.ncp.co.uk/find-a-car-park/car-parks/lincoln-brayford-street/

Please note that while St Marks car park is close by, it is not open 24 hours a day. We have tried to highlight car parks for which there is no limit on its open and closing time and also those for which you pay on exit meaning you do not have to decide ahead of time how many hours to pay for.

If you would like to hear more about EASTME directly or to be involved in one or more of the 11 Communities of Practice, please sign up to its dedicated mailing list here.

* The EASTME region includes inshore and offshore waters in the UK’s Exclusive economic zone, running from Flamborough Head in the North to the southern Suffolk border, including the Humber and Wash estuaries.