Application Fees SSP Information:
http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/EMECS9/ss_spec_s.html
SSP Students under age 18 - $175
SSP students must register by 29 July USA Contacts:
Designated Guests - $150 Dr. Wayne Bell, Chair of SSP
Chaperones/guests must register by 15 June wbell2@washcoll.edu
Global Summit
(410) 820-6002
College Student age 18 or older - $200
JoAnn Fairchild, SSP coordinator
College students must register by 14 June
The International EMECS Center is making a
jfairchild2@washcoll.edu
(410) 778-7295 ~ on ~
limited number of grants available to students
from developing nations. (See EMECS9
SSP Committee Members:
Dr. Wayne Bell (co-chair), Senior Associate,
Coastal Seas
Conference Announcement web page for Center for Environment & Society, Washington College
details.) Limited financial support may also be Baltimore, Maryland USA
Dr. Jean-Paul Ducrotoy, Member,
available for other SSP participants. Contact EMECS Scientific & Policy Committee, France 28-31 August 2011
Dr. Wayne Bell for details. Margaret Enloe, Director of Communications,
Chesapeake Bay Program and Alliance
Conference Meeting Site Dr. Hiroshi Kawai,
and Accommodations Kobe University Center for Inland Seas, Japan
George Radcliffe, Chair
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Youth Programs, Maryland Ornithological Society
700 Aliceanna Street Scott Raymond, Vice President
Baltimore, MD 21202-4339 Living Classrooms Foundation, Baltimore
(410) 385-3000 Dr. John Seidel (co-chair), Professor and Director,
Only 25 minutes from Baltimore/Washington
International Airport, the Baltimore Marriott
Center for Environment & Society, Washington College
Ms. Coreen Weilminster, Education Coordinator,
Students and Schools
Waterfront Hotel is convenient to travelers.
Block cut-off date: August 5, 2011. Reduced
Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve;
and President-elect, Partnership (SSP)
Maryland Association of Environmental
EMECS9 Group Rates: $159 plus applicable & Outdoor Educators (MAEOE) Dr. Wayne Bell, Chair, EMECS9 special session
taxes (currently 13.5%) per night for 1-2 Students and Schools Partnership (SSP)
Conference Information: Center for Environment & Society
people per room. There is an additional fee of
Washington College
$20 per person for 3-4 people per room. To www.conference.ifas.ufl.edu/emecs9 300 Washington Avenue
make your reservation, call 1-800-228-9290 or Jhanna Gilbert, Conference Coordinator Chestertown, Maryland 21620
(410) 385-3000 and specify EMECS9. University of Florida | IFAS wbell2@washcoll.edu
(410) 778-7295
Office of Conferences & Institutes
PO Box 110750 | Bldg. 639 Mowry Rd. Conference Announcement:
Gainesville, FL 32611-0750| USA http://www.conference.ifas.ufl.edu/emecs9/
PH 352-392-5930 | FAX 352-392-9734
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Conference Overview SSP Excursions/Field Trips Town officials and the Center for Environment
Environmental Management for Enclosed and Society, who are working together to create
Excursion I - Monday, 29 August 2011
Coastal Seas (EMECS) hosts its 9th an environmentally sustainable future for the
Learning to Care: History, Culture, and
conference, Managing for Results in our Coastal citizens of Chestertown. After lunch they visit
Future of Coastal Seas
Seas, from 28-31 August 2011 at the Marriott the GIS Laboratory at Washington College
Host: Living Classrooms Foundation and
Waterfront Hotel in Baltimore, MD, USA. and meet with Chesapeake Semester students.
students from their partnership schools
Coastal ecosystems—including the world’s Participants return by bus over the Chesapeake
Outline: Participants walk to the Douglass-
bays, estuaries and nearshore open waters— Bay Bridge for the EMECS9 farewell dinner.
Myers Maritime Park Campus, arriving
are both valuable and vulnerable. The goal of for lunch with Baltimore area students. Excursion III - Wednesday, 31 August 2011
EMECS9 is to share information leading to Afterwards they enjoy demonstrations of Optional - Post Conference
the preservation of enclosed coastal seas and partnership programs Host: Chesapeake Bay
their irreplaceable resources. The conference with Baltimore Environmental Center
crosses barriers of discipline and culture schools and take part Outline: Kayak along a Kent Island
by bringing together international experts, in hands-on activities water trail, learning about erosion
scientists, and key stakeholders to share that are used in protection using living shorelines
information, insights, and lessons learned. teaching environmental and environmental education
stewardship to urban programs for schools and citizens.
Students & Schools Partnership students. An emphasis This is an extra-cost event open to
As in the past, EMECS 9 includes student of stewardship is SSP participants. Others may be
presentations and discussions in conjunction promoted through admitted if space permits.
with the conference. The theme of the knowledge of community history and culture.
Students and Schools Partnership (SSP) After dinner with students and educators,
session is Community-based Environmental troubadour Geoff Kaufman (from Mystic
Application Process
Education. We aim to identify approaches Seaport) performs. The songs and readings Applications are now being accepted from
that promote environmental knowledge of includes active student participation and is students who wish to give SSP presentations
citizens and sustainable development of their open to all EMECS delegates. and to participate in activities relating to the
communities. Sustainability applies to natural EMECS9 conference.
resources and ecosystems, and also to the Excursion II - Tuesday, 30 August 2011 Student applicants must be 18 years of
economies and cultures that depend on them. A Coastal Colonial Town age or younger to be eligible for the reduced
Hosts: Washington College, Chesapeake SSP registration fee of $175. They should be
Breakout Sessions Semester students, Town of Chestertown willing to give an oral- or poster presentation
The SSP breakout sessions at the Marriott Outline: Participants board the research vessel on subjects related to environmental education
Waterfront Hotel contribute to the Education/ Callinectes at the Chesapeake Exploration or student research in coastal zones or
Communication track of the conference. Center on Kent Island and travel up the watersheds, and to participate in an exchange
Chester River. Along the way they learn how of viewpoints. Abstract deadline is 31 March
• The Online Media Dilemma: Uses and Misuses archaeology contributes to our understanding 2011 to be considered for grant support, or
• Communication that Makes People Want to of Chesapeake history and how that knowledge it is 1 June 2011 for inclusion in published
Get Involved is integrated into the caretaking and coastal Conference Proceedings. See EMECS9
• Citizen-science and Student-science
management decisions of the ecosystem. After Conference Announcement web page for
• Communicating in Times of Environmental Crisis
landing in Chestertown they are introduced to abstract guidelines and required format.