2025 Science Forum

2025 marked GMGI’s tenth annual Science Forum! The 2025 Forum was the biggest to date, with over 160 guests in attendance for an engaging day of science and discussion.

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Day of Materials

Please click below for PDFs of the Speaking Program and Biographies & Abstracts.

Speaker Information

2025 speakers included:

Francisco Chavez, Ph.D., Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Ph.D., Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy at MIT

Denis Firsanov, Ph.D., University of Rochester

Matt Harkel, Ph.D., Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute

Mandë Holford, Ph.D., Harvard University

Ryan Kelly, Ph.D., University of Washington

Lisa Komoroske, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst

Zachary Swartz, Ph.D., Marine Biological Laboratory

Steve Vollmer, Ph.D., Florida Atlantic University

The keynote address was delivered by Craig Carlson, Ph.D., from the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, a unit of Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, Arizona State University.

Sponsorship

The 2025 Science Forum was generously sponsored by:

The 2025 Science Forum has been endorsed by the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030.

Images from the 2025 Science Forum

Photo Credit: Jacquie Spector