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Conferences & Classes

Don't forget to check out our Student Travel Award Program, which provides travel support for continuing CSU undergraduate and graduate students to attend and present the results of original marine, coastal and coastal watershed research at scientific meetings and conferences!


Classes

​Class​
​General Date
​Frequency
​UCSB Sea Turtle Field Course and Expedition Group​
Summer 2026 Applications Open
​Annual​​


Confere​​nces

​Conference
​General Date
​Frequency
​Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)
January
​Annual
​American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)
(Ocean Sciences Meeting & Aquatic Sciences Meeting)
​​February
​Annual
​National Shellfisheries Association (NSA)
​March
​Annual
​ ​Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (JIMH)
​July
​Annual
​American Elasmobranch Society (AES)
​July - August
​Annual
​Ecological Society of America (ESA)
​August
​Annual
​Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
​October - November
​Annual
​Society of Marine Mammalogy (SMM)
​October - December
​Biennial
​ ​Western Society of Naturalists (WSN)
​November
​Annual
​American Geophysical Union (AGU)
​December
​Annual
​California Chapter of the Society of Freshwater Science (Cal-SFS)​
November​​Annual
​American Chemical Society (ACS)
​Variable
​Variable
​American Fisheries Society (AFS)
​Variable
​Annual
​​Geologic Society of America (GSA)
​Variable
​Annual

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