NMEA Conference

Sites, Themes, & Logos

 

 

 

  • 1976 Pacific Grove, California..... No Theme

    (This logo was on the cover of the conference proceedings).

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1977 Newark, Delaware..... Marine Awareness: Educating for the Future

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1978 Olympia, Washington..... No Theme

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1979 Milwaukee, Wisconsin..... The Great Lakes: Our Fourth Coastline

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1980 Salem Massachusetts..... Our Coast: Heritage, Conflict and Challenge

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1981 Galveston, Texas..... Toward the Coastal Frontier

 

 

 

 

  • 1982 La Jolla, California..... Oceanomics: Riding the Wave of the Future

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1983 South Portland, Maine..... Sights and Sounds of the Sea

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1984 Victoria, British Columbia..... The Pacific Northwest: From Canoe to Submersible

 

 

 

 

  • 1985 Williamsburg, Virginia..... The Chesapeake: Prologue to the Future

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1986 Cleveland, Ohio..... Those Magnificent Sweetwater Seas

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1987 Kingston, Rhode Island..... The Magic of the Northeast

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1988 Santa Cruz, California..... New Waves in Marine Education: Keeping up with Ocean Discoveries

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1989 Miami, Florida..... Florida’s Fragile Paradise

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1990 Hilo & Kona..... Hawaii Islands in the Sea

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1991 New Brunswick, New Jersey..... Garden by the Sea

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1992 Portland & Newport, Oregon..... Seines to Satellites: Taming Technology

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1993 New Orleans, Louisiana..... Where the River Meets the Sea

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1994 Knoxville, Tennessee..... Science and Public Policy

    (There was no NMEA logo for this conference. The NMEA Conference took place in conjunction with the conferences of other national organizations.)

 

 

 

 

  • 1995 San Diego, California..... Oceans Without Borders

 

 

 

 

  • 1996 Durham, New Hampshire..... Making Connections:Global Lessons From the Gulf of Maine

 

 

 

 

  • 1997 Chicago, Illinois..... Land of the Inland Seas: A Journey to the Great Lakes

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1998 Humacao, Puerto Rico..... An Island Journey in Ecological Diversity

 

 

 

 

 

  • 1999 Charleston, South Carolina..... Exploring Our Coastal Heritage: A Voyage Through Cultures, Lands, and Seas

 

 

 

 

  • 2000 Long Beach, California..... Wave of the Future

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • 2001 Victoria, British Columbia..... A Water Odyssey: Understanding Our Sense of Place

 

 

 

 

 

  • 2002 New London, Connecticut..... The Race to Hell Gate: Estuaries to the Abyss

 

 

 

 

  • 2003 Wilmington, North Carolina..... Taking Marine Education by Storm

 

 

 

 

 

  • 2004 St. Petersburg, Florida..... Bridge the Gulf: Marine Science in the Sunshine

 

 

 

 

 

  • 2005 Maui, Hawaii..... Na¯na¯ I Ke Kumu, Na¯na¯ I Ke Kai (translated: Look to the Source, Look to the Sea)

 

 

 

 

 

  • 2006 New York, New York.....New York, NY: A City of Islands

 

 

 

 

  • 2007 Portland, Maine.....Downeast 2007....Ideas, Innovations, and Inspirations

 

 

 

 

  • 2008 Savannah, Georgia (July 20-24) ..... One World, One Water

 

 

 

 

  • 2009 Monterey, California (June 29-July 3).....One World Conserving One Ocean

 

 

 

 

  • 2010 Gatlinburg, Tennessee (July 19-23) .....From the Mountains to the Sea

 

 

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