About this Event
An interconnected network is a resilient network. This year’s NY-NJ Harbor & Estuary Program Conference will explore how collaboration can help move the 2025-2035 Action Agenda forward by turning shared priorities into action. Through panel discussions, poster presentations, and interactive workshops, the conference will bring practitioners, researchers, managers, community leaders, and decision-makers together to exchange ideas, learn from existing partnerships, and identify new opportunities for coordinated work across the Estuary.
Want to connect? Join our LinkedIn group, where you can connect with other conference participants before, during, and after the conference, as well as share relevant news, upcoming events, and open job postings. We will also post updates as the conference date gets closer. You are encouraged to continue the conversations we start at the conference on this platform and use it as a networking resource.
Agenda details and more: Check https://hudsonriver.org/article/2026-hep-annual-conference/ for more details about the conference!
Agenda, subject to change
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Check-in and Poster Session
Info: Check in and pick up conference materials, starting at 9:00 AM, and explore posters before the welcoming remarks begin at 9:30 AM.
🕑: 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Welcome Remarks
🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Keynote Address
🕑: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Morning Plenary
🕑: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Poster Presentations
🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Lunch
🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Fostering Cross-Sectoral Partnerships to Impact Estuary Health
Info: Join this workshop to learn from guest speakers and engage with attendees about collaborative cross-sectoral projects (e.g., among academia, government, non-profits) and experiences/resources to build and sustain work that advances shared goals.
🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Strengthening Your Toolbox
Info: Join us for a session of rapid presentations on tools to understand and monitor environmental stressors, identify opportunities, and support decision-making in the Hudson-Raritan Estuary.
🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Panel: Community Led Stewardship
Info: (more details coming soon)
🕑: 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM
Break
🕑: 02:45 PM - 04:15 PM
Workshop: Adaptive Management for Resiliency Game
Info: (more details coming soon)
🕑: 02:45 PM - 04:15 PM
From Sites to Watersheds: Partnerships for Water Quality and Flood Resilience
Info: Explore how small pilot or site-scale projects can lay the foundation for transformative water quality and flood resilience initiatives. Panelists will share how projects have grown over time from site-scale demonstrations to municipal and watershed-scale efforts through strong partnerships, watershed planning, regulatory programs such as LTCPs and MS4s, and phased capital investments, delivering broader benefits for water quality, habitat, public access, and community resilience.
🕑: 02:45 PM - 04:15 PM
Sustaining Environmental Arts
Info: In this panel conversation, you will hear from artists and organizations who have hosted environmental-focused artist-in-residence programs as they share their experiences and advice on how to build and sustain programs in this space.
🕑: 04:15 PM - 04:30 PM
Break
🕑: 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Keynote and Closing Remarks
Event venue & nearby stays
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, New York, United States
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