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Capitol Hill Ocean Week 2022 – Sea: The Future
June 7, 2022 - June 9, 2022
Capitol Hill Ocean Week 2022 – Sea: The Future
HYBRID EVENT
We are excited to announce that Capitol Hill Ocean Week (CHOW) will be a hybrid conference this year! This means you can attend and participate in-person in Washington, DC or from anywhere using our virtual platform. Through our platform, Swapcard, we are bringing the live conference experience to you! We will be streaming all LIVE in-person sessions and even have some virtual only sessions to keep the conversation going.
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In 1972, the United States enacted a wave of legislation—the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Coastal Zone Management Act and amendments to the Clean Water Act—to sustain our ocean, coasts, and Great Lakes.
Today, 50 years later, we face new challenges. Climate change and biodiversity loss are fundamentally changing our ocean and Great Lakes. Coastal development increases pressures on ecosystems and communities. Multiple demands on resources and space lead to challenging policy and regulatory questions regarding how to best manage uses and sustain livelihoods. At the same time, coastal communities face a multitude of other issues, including migration and displacement, loss of culture, and ensuring equitable access to nature and resources.
These challenges all share a common solution: people.
The decisions that we make today will have long-term impacts on the health of our blue planet. Join us for Capitol Hill Ocean Week (CHOW) from June 7 – 9, 2022, to celebrate the 50 years of progress achieved and to set a course for the new policies and actions necessary to transform our future.
Two programming notes:
- CHOW 2021 focused on building a more racially just movement for our ocean, coasts, and Great Lakes. At that conference, we committed to making diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging an inherent part of CHOW and our work. CHOW 2022 will bring diverse perspectives and address how to make conservation, science, and policy efforts more inclusive and equitable.
- Climate change impacts our ocean, coasts, and Great Lakes and the communities that rely on them. It affects every topic we will discuss at CHOW 2022.
Capitol Hill Ocean Week (CHOW), convened by the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, is a multi-day conference that convenes policymakers, scientists, managers, business leaders, conservationists, educators, students, and members of the public to engage in dialogue and debate on significant issues that impact our ocean and Great Lakes and to propose innovative policies and partnerships to address these issues
CHOW 2022 is open to the public and free to attendees. The Foundation relies on the generous support of sponsors to host CHOW.