S02 — Restoring Ancestral Shellfish Mariculture
10:55
Lessons Learned: A tale from the Hawaiian Intertidal Shoreline and re-imagining Contemporary Conservation to support ʻĀina Momona: Productive and Thriving Communities of People, Place, and Natural Resources
11:15
Restoration and management of an Indigenous aquaculture system helps mitigate climate change impacts to estuarine fisheries
11:35
Chiix̱uu Tll iinasdll Nurturing Seafood to Grow: Haida Nation stewardship and restoration of kelp forest and coastal ecosystems
11:55
Revitalizing ancestral wisdom to support balanced relationships between clams, sea otters and people
1:15
Uplifting Indigenous Shellfish Restoration Efforts: Reflections on community research in Kake, AK
1:35
Revitalizing and Future Proofing Haíɫzaqv λíλábac̓i (clam gardens) Through Ǧvíḷás (ancestral laws) du ɫáxvaí (authority)
1:55
Reconnecting Human-Clam Relationships: The Role of Microhabitat Refugia in Protecting Clams Under Climate Change and Predator Recovery
2:15
Socio-ecological change on a modern clam garden
S04 — Restorative Aquaculture
10:45
Predictors of the habitat value of oysters – a global meta-analysis
11:00
Spatial Assessment of Mariculture Suitability Along Oregon's Coast Focusing on Native Shellfish and Seaweeds
11:15
Can we eat them to save them? A 10-year review of work at the intersection of shellfish farming and Ostrea lurida restoration in Tomales Bay, CA.
11:30
Advancing US Oyster Restoration Through SOAR: Scaling Grower Partnerships Through a Replicable Model
11:45
Beyond Oyster Restoration – Critical Coastal Habitat Restoration Planning in Massachusetts, USA
12:00
Scaling Up Oyster Reef Restoration through Cross-Industry Partnerships: Lessons Learned from the First Sanctuary Oyster Reef Restored by a Commercial Oyster Harvester in Texas
1:15
A History of Municipal Quahog Propagation -A Massachusetts Perspective -Public Aquaculture-
1:30
The impact of oysters on marine nitrogen cycling (Lightning Talk)
1:35
Hooked on a Feeling: Enhancing larval settlement with hatchery-raised Olympia oysters (Lightning Talk)
1:40
Phenotypic Plasticity as a Tool for Oyster Restoration and Climate Resilience (Lightning Talk)
1:45
Economic evaluation of bivalves in Egypt: A potential for aquaculture production (Lightning Talk)
1:50
Functionally Activated Biochar as Climate-Resilient Cultch for Shellfish Restoration and Aquaculture (Lightning Talk)
1:55
From the bottom-up: Developing a social-ecological approach to oyster restoration in Maine (Lightning Talk)
S13 — Approaches to Substrate Supplementation
10:45
Mansions in the Marsh: Monitoring the performance of Oyster CastlesTM in coastal South Carolina, USA.
11:00
Empowering Coastal Communities — tools & techniques for the affordable production of modular reef substrate units by community based organizations.
11:15
Building Reefs for Resilience: Implementing a Suite of Alternative Substrates to Protect Low-Lying Coastal Towns
11:30
Use of the Oyster Catcher™ Substrates for Creation, Restoration and Enhancement of Oyster and Mussel Habitat
11:45
Sustainable Structural Demolition & Repurposing - Material Origin and Transport
12:00
Application of Recycled Concrete as Substrate Material in the Construction of a Living Shoreline in Maryland, USA
1:15
The TOPPING Project: Integrating Oyster Restoration in Offshore Wind in Europe (Lightning Talk)
1:30
Towards application of remotely set spat-on-stone for offshore energy infrastructure scour protection: quantifying installation-induced mortality and long-term survival in the Reefcovery project (Lightning Talk)
1:35
The importance of vertical relief in oyster reef restoration efforts (Lightning Talk)
1:40
Corrigan's Reef Oyster Restoration using Reef Panels (Lightning Talk)
1:45
Development of a Mobile Remote Setting Container and Offshore operations: a Pilot Restoration of Ostrea edulis within Belgian North Sea Offshore Energy Infrastructure in the Reefcovery Project (Lightning Talk)
1:50
Monitoring and Scaling of Subtidal Oyster Restoration in Brevard County, Florida (Lightning Talk)
S10 — Resilience Building, Connectivity & Seascape Approaches
2:00
Field validation of oyster larval dispersal predictions in Hudson River Estuary to inform restoration
2:15
From Watershed to Reef: Restoration Projects Supporting Shellfish and Aquatic Habitat Recovery in Pensacola Bay, Florida
2:30
Oyster Recruitment Patterns in the Indian River Lagoon, Florida
3:15
Ancestral clam gardens can buffer impacts of contemporary heatwaves
3:30
Sea to Land: Seaweed Recycling to Benefit Shellfish and Soil
3:45
Collaborative Assessment of Oyster Reef Ecology Across Broad Geographic Scales
4:00
Large-Scale Chesapeake Bay Oyster Restoration: Key Outcomes from a Decade-Long Initiative, and a Look into What's Next
4:15
Oyster size and drill density influence Olympia oyster survival under Japanese oyster drill predation (Lightning Talk)
4:20
Beyond target species: evaluating Olympia oyster restoration for impacts to Dungeness crab. (Lightning Talk)
4:25
Tale of two structures: Oyster shell and seagrass structure impact soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria) survival (Lightning Talk)
S12 — Shell Recycling
2:00
Shell to Shore: Building a Resilient Georgia Coast Through Oyster Shell Recycling, Education, and Restoration (Lightning Talk)
2:15
Shells for Shorelines: Community-Driven Oyster Shell Recycling for Living Shorelines in Southern California
2:30
Closing the 280-Million-Pound Gap Between Waste and Restoration: The Economics of Oyster Shell Recycling
3:15
From Restaurant to Reef: Fifteen Years of Oyster Shell Recycling and Restoration in Galveston Bay
3:30
From Waste to Resource: The Story of South Carolina's Oyster Shell Recycling Program
3:45
A Community of Practice in Oyster Shell Recycling and Reef Restoration in the Gulf
4:00
Shell Recycling for Restoration in NYC
4:15
Shells Without Borders: Global Lessons from Recycling Programs for Reef Restoration
4:30
Operationalizing Equity: The Circular Political Economy of Oyster Shell Recycling in Georgia
4:35
Sink Your Shucks Oyster Shell Recycling Program (Lightning Talk)
4:40
Breaking Down Barriers: Engaging Title 1, Rural, and Alternative Learning Students in Estuarine Education, Oyster/Saltmarsh Restoration, Recreational angling, and more (Lightning Talk)
S11 — Outreach, Creative Communication, and Storytelling
3:18
short documentary: Honoring the Past, Feeding the Future through Indigenous Aquaculture
3:33
A big milestone for a little oyster: celebrating 150 acres of Olympia oyster restoration in Puget Sound (Lightning Talk)
3:48
Designing Community Engagement Strategies to Inspire Oyster Restoration in NYC
4:00
Community-based research and restoration in South Puget Sound; a collaborative alliance with a public school STEM program
4:15
Environmental Storytelling Through Zines: Showcasing a Traditional Coastal Foods Zine
GEN — General
No presentations currently scheduled.
POSTER — Poster
8:00
A Review of Spatial Data Accessibility for Wild Shellfish Repopulation Restoration Programs, USA (Poster)
8:15
Assessing Restored Oyster Reef Structure and Coastal Erosion Mitigation Using UAV-Based LiDAR (Poster)
8:30
Chugach Region Ocean Monitoring: building capacity for in-region monitoring, research, and restoration (Poster)
8:45
Community-Based Restoration of Native Estuarine Bivalves ("Baruy") in Caluangan Lake and the Baruyan River Estuary, Philippines: Integrating Long-Term Ecological Assessment, Local Ecological Knowledge, and Nature-Based Solutions (Poster)
9:00
Cultural and Ethnic History of Oyster Laborers on Oyster Bay, Totten Inlet Washington (Poster)
9:15
Developing Massachusetts' First Statewide Oyster Restoration Suitability Index Using a Vector-Based Approach (Poster)
9:30
Exploring the drivers of mussel distribution for marsh management and restoration (Poster)
9:45
From Algae to Abalone: How Changing Ocean Conditions Shape Shellfish Hatchery Survival (Poster)
10:30
From Broodstock to Outplant: The Olympia Oyster Hatchery Pipeline at Puget Sound Restoration Fund (Poster)
10:45
Intertidal Oyster Restoration in the Northern Gulf of Mexico (Poster)
11:00
Larval Fortification: A look into increasing larval Ostrea lurida resilience and reducing mortality with marine probiotics in a hatchery setting (Poster)
11:15
Losing Their Muscle?: A Bayesian Approach to Diagnosing the Effect of Acidic Events on Length-Weight Relationships for Atlantic Sea Scallops (Placopecten magellanicus) (Poster)
11:30
Monitoring Change in a Changing Bay (Poster)
11:45
Native Littleneck Clams in Washington: An Emerging Conservation Priority (Poster)
1:00
Native Oyster Restoration Across the Solway Firth: From Opportunity Mapping to Cultch Deployment (Poster)
1:15
Notes on the Cultural History of Shellfish Laborers on Oyster Bay, Totten Inlet, Washington (Poster)
1:30
Optimizing Growth and Survival of Pinto Abalone in a Nursery Setting (Poster)
1:45
Preserving Our History, One Oyster Shell At A Time (Poster)
2:00
Restoring lost species to their historical range: Ostrea in the intertidal (Poster)
2:15
SPAT-ON-SHELL OYSTER PRODUCTION IN COASTAL MASSACHUSETTS: A COMPARISON BETWEEN PRACTICES IN TWO MUNICIPALITIES ON CAPE COD (Poster)
3:00
The Influence of Thermal and Immune Stress Priming on Field Performance and Metabolism in Manila Clams and Basket Cockles (Poster)
S01 — Indigenous-led Contemporary Restoration Efforts
10:30
Restoration on the Kashia Coastline
10:45
Increasing subsistence access to first foods: Outplanting trials of hatchery produced basket cockles, a preferred traditional food of the Suquamish Tribe
11:00
Law & Order: Conservation Efforts of Plicopurpura purple snails in Mexico
11:15
The future of past reefs: Including plural ways of knowing and valuing in oyster restoration in England and The Netherlands
11:30
Oyster restoration for Amah Mutsun cultural revival and long-term resilience
11:45
Olympia Oyster persistence in Hood Canal, and the Skokomish Tribe's efforts to recover populations (Lightning Talk)
11:50
Olympia Oyster Restoration Efforts on Squaxin Island (Lightning Talk)
11:55
Year One of Olympia oyster pilot restoration in Triangle Cove, a recovering pocket estuary." (Lightning Talk)
S03 — Hatchery Innovations, Upscaling, Industry
10:30
The Bivalve Hatchery Health Consortium: A comprehensive approach to managing larval crashes in bivalve hatcheries
10:45
50 YEARS AND STILL HATCHING: A CASE STUDY OF THE UMCES HORN POINT OYSTER HATCHERY
11:00
Direct setting of eastern oyster larvae (Crassostrea virginica) in Mississippi coastal waters
11:15
Optimizing Remote Setting for Oyster Restoration: Effects of Holding Time in Setting Tanks on Post-Deployment Oyster Survival
11:30
Remote setting tests in the Netherlands: a cost-effective and scalable method for large-scale Ostrea edulis reef restoration
11:45
An Overview of Conservation Aquaculture at the Kenneth K. Chew Center for Shellfish Research and Restoration
1:00
Accelerating conservation aquaculture of Olympia oysters and Pinto abalone through community collaborations and satellite nurseries
1:15
Conservation aquaculture maintains genetic composition in hatchery-produced Olympia oysters in Puget Sound, WA
1:30
Interactive Data Visualization of Pinto Abalone Production for Restorative Aquaculture (Lightning Talk)
1:35
Water Quality Monitoring and Adjustments Utilized in the 2026 Production Season of North Sound and Hood Canal Olympia oysters (Ostrea lurida) in the Kenneth K. Chew Center for Shellfish Research and Restoration (Lightning Talk)
1:40
From Spat to Scale: Data Solutions for Native Oyster Restoration in California (Lightning Talk)
S08 — Restoration of Other Molluscs and Invertebrates
10:30
Rebuilding a lost population: Twenty years of pinto abalone restoration in Washington State
10:45
A collaborative approach to endangered species recovery: Refining hatchery, field, and wild monitoring strategies across statewide partners to enhance pinto abalone restoration success in Washington State
11:00
Enhancing pinto abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana) survivorship with novel outplanting techniques
11:15
Pinto Abalone Possibilities: Marrying Multispecies Methods for more Careful Coastal Adaptation
11:30
Updates on Hatchery Cultivation of Novel Mariculture Species in Alaska
11:45
Passive Collection Box Monitoring and Replanting in a Municipally Managed Softshell Clam Fishery
1:00
Rebuilding, and maintaining, a sustainable hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria) fishery in a temperate lagoon using spawner sanctuaries
1:15
RESTORATION OF A MID-ATLANTIC COASTAL BAY SCALLOP POPULATION (ARGOPECTEN IRRADIANS)
1:30
A Community-Based Queen Conch (Aliger gigas) Restoration and Aquaculture Program in The Bahamas as a Model for Caribbean Invertebrate Recovery
1:45
Looking to the Stars: Breeding an endangered top predator for habitat resilience
2:00
Monitoring threatened populations of Pycnopodia helianthoides in Washington State
2:15
Sea Cucumber and Bivalve Shellfish Connections in the Pacific Northwest of North America
S09 — Lessons Learned from Ostrea Communities of Practice
1:00
Session overview: lessons learned from communities of practice (Lightning Talk)
1:03
Overview of habitat restoration using Ostrea sp.
1:15
Restoring the Past, Securing the Future – NORA’s Journey
1:30
Do Remnant <i>Ostrea edulis</i> Reefs Still Function as Biodiversity Hotspots? Insights from an Exhaustive Survey of Their Associated Fauna
1:45
The Native Olympia Oyster Collaborative: a community of practice for Ostrea lurida conservation
2:00
Building an effective landscape: Three decades of Ostrea lurida (Olympia oyster) restoration in Washington state
2:15
Using Restoration Aquaculture for Olympia Oysters in Northern California with the Native Olympia Oyster Collaborative (NOOC)
3:00
A spat over space: Large-scale Olympia oyster recruitment study reveals striking contrasts in recruitment across regions
3:15
Proyecto Puelche: A Roadmap for Restoring Ostrea puelchana in Patagonia, Argentina
3:30
From Lost Reefs to Global Flagship: The Nature Conservancy’s Path to Scaling Shellfish Restoration in Australia
3:45
Reviving Lost Ostrea Reefs Down Under: Soundscapes, Species Synergies, Community Stewardship, and Surprising Signs of Recovery
4:00
What the shuck is going on down under? Insights from Ostrea angasi restoration
4:15
Restoring South Australia's Lost Shellfish Reefs: lessons and results from a substrate limited system
S05 — Genetics, Disease and Biosecurity
1:45
Optimal breeding strategies to maximize genetic diversity in a culturally important marine bivalve
2:00
Development and testing of a novel Genetic Panel to Inform Management and Restoration of the Native Olympia Oyster (Ostrea lurida)
2:15
GENETIC STRUCTURE IN THE RESTORED MID-ATLANTIC COASTAL BAY SCALLOP POPULATION (ARGOPECTEN IRRADIANS) IN VIRGINIA COASTAL BAYS
3:00
Climate change, disease, and the demise of an iconic fishery
3:15
Harnessing genomics to identify disease resilience and inform bay scallop (Argopecten irradians) restoration strategies
3:30
Weakened attachment and transcriptomic shifts in a marine mussel following exposure to ocean acidification, warming, and hypoxia
3:45
Assessing environmental drivers of Olympia oyster population genetic diversity in Puget Sound, WA
4:00
The importance of an evolutionary perspective on shellfish disease management in restoration, from Haplosporidium nelsoni and Perkinsus marinus to Bonamia
4:15
Transmissible cancers in hybridizing populations of soft-shell clams and other bivalves in Puget Sound
S07 — Urban Shellfish Restoration
3:00
Oyster Restoration in NYC
3:15
Urban Oysters: Seventy Years of Observations and a Career of Research Surveys Across Florida's Gulf Coast
3:30
Restore Oyster Reef in Reclaimed Area: HIA 3rd Runway as an example
3:45
Kayakers Reef: Community-Led Shellfish and Fish Habitat Restoration in Urban South-Eastern Australia
4:00
Widespread Demographic Supplementation of Connecticut Wild Oysters by Aquaculture Farms
4:15
Washington State Mussel Watch: Understanding Contaminant Exposure Through Long-Term Biomonitoring
S06 — Using Historical and Geohistorical Data to Inform Restoration Practices
10:45
The lost ecosystem: historically extensive oyster reefs are now critically endangered in southern China.
11:00
Extending Ecological Baselines: Reconstructing Bivalve Biomass Using Natural History Collections
11:15
Fossil evidence underscores the importance of restoring the native Olympia oyster in California
11:30
Restoring Ireland's Native Oyster (Ostrea edulis): Learning from the Past to Secure a Resilient Future
11:45
geoAMBI: Reconstructing Past Biological Condition from Historical Shell Records
12:00
Reconnecting Stories and Seascapes: Using Genomics and Historical Ecology to Inform Olympia Oyster Restoration
S14 — Freshwater Mussel Restoration
10:45
A long-term research program to restore freshwater mussels as a tribal First Food
11:00
Current work on freshwater mussel distribution and populations across Washington and Oregon
11:15
Tar Creek NRDAR - Restoring the Livers of Our Rivers
11:30
HOST FISH USAGE AMONG THREE FRESHWATER MUSSEL GENERA IN THE COLUMBIA BASIN, USA
11:45
The Mussel Crew- Youth engagement and discovery of freshwater mussel ecology
12:00
Case Studies in Restoration: Building Partnerships to Protect Freshwater Mussels
S15 — Ostrea lurida restoration efforts
10:45
Olympia Oyster, <i>Ostrea lurida</i>, Restoration Influences Local Invertebrate Community Composition and Juvenile Salmon Prey
11:00
Restoration and Conservation of the Native Olympia Oyster in Sequim Bay, Washington
11:15
Whatcom County Marine Resources Committee Olympia Oyster Restoration Projects
11:30
USING SHELL ENHANCEMENT TO EXPAND A REMNANT POPULATION OF OLYMPIA OYSTERS IN DISCOVERY BAY, WASHINGTON STATE
11:45
Estuary-Wide Recruitment Monitoring of Ostrea lurida: Spatial Patterns and Methodological Comparisons
12:00
Dissolution Rates of Olympia Oyster (Ostrea lurida) Shells at Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge: Preliminary Findings and Restoration Implications (Lightning Talk)
12:05
Bivalve buddies? possible facilitation between Ostrea lurida and Mytilus galloprovincialis (Lightning Talk)
12:10
Many hands, many oysters: Setting the foundation for the next decade of Olympia oyster restoration in Washington (Lightning Talk)