Events Calendar
Texas Bay and Estuaries Meeting
University of Texas Marine Science Center, Port Aransas Texas
April 23 and 24, 2025
Description:
The 2025 Texas Bays and Estuaries Meeting will feature a special session on the Texas Gulf Coast Research Center at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute (UTMSI). The conference will be hosted by UTMSI and the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) at the Patton Marine Science Education Center on UTMSI’s campus. For more information about UTMSI and the Mission-Aransas NERR, please visit www.utmsi.utexas.edu and www.missionaransas.org.
Type: Sponsor
Texas General Land Office Coastal Round Up
South Padre Island, Texas
Isla Blanca Park
33174 State Park Road 100
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Description:
Join us for the Texas General Land Office’s (GLO) 2025 Coastal Roundup! This event will have booths from a wide variety of local and state coastal and wildlife organizations, food trucks, music, and kid-friendly activities. The event will also host two Adopt-A-Beach cleanups. Visit https://www.glo.texas.gov/about-glo/events/2025-texas-coastal-roundup. Stop by and visit Texas Sea Grant agent’s Sara Stewart and April Taylor.
Texas State Aquarium
Farm Bureau
Bay City, TX
Matagorda County Fairgrounds
4511 FM2668, 77414
Description:
This is an educational event to teach local 4th graders about agriculture through hands-on activities. Join us and our Matagorda County Coastal and Marine Agent, Amy Nowlin as she talks about how we get our seafood from both wild caught and farm raised sources.
Local Catch Network
Gulf Shores, Alabama
Gulf State Park
Gulf Shores, AL 36542
Description:
The 2025 Local Seafood Summit is a practitioner-centric gathering for all those who are working to strengthen community-based seafood systems at the local, regional, and national scales. The summit aims to foster new connections, facilitate knowledge exchange, and create space for strategic dialogue about the tools, services, research, and policies needed to elevate the role of seafood in food systems and support resilient and vibrant coastal communities. Seafood harvesters, entrepreneurs, researchers, decision-makers, and community change-agents are welcome.
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension and Matagorda Bay Foundation
centered at latitude 28.6611 ° N and longitude –96.0180 ° W
Description: As part of ongoing restoration efforts, this event aims to help restore the oyster reef just off of the Dog Island Nature Preserve.
University of Texas Rio Grand Valley
Edinburg, TX
UTRGV Ballroom
1201 W University Dr, 78539
Description: This event aims to connect and share the university’s resilience related knowledge with their most vulnerable populations in the RGV, and simultaneously learn from their wisdom. The topic of focus for the 2025 conference is Communities Organizing Community: Catalyzing Transboundary Knowledge.