Fire Island National Seashore's 7th Biennial Science Conference, scheduled for Monday & Tuesday, May 11 & 12, 2009, has been postponed due to a limited number of registrants. 

• 7th Biennial
  Planning, Science and Research Conference
  Location: Brookhaven National Laboratory
  Proposed Registration Fee for 2009:
• • $25/person for both days or $15/person for one day

To help us reschedule this conference, your feedback is welcome. Please e-mail us with comments or questions.

Park rangers share with volunteers and visitors the information gleaned from the biennial science conferences. Completed reports are available on the park's web site.

Since 1997, Fire Island National Seashore has hosted a biennial conference to present—to the general public—scientific information from National Park Service-funded projects. This conference provides an opportunity to learn the status of the research currently being conducted in the park. An additional value of the conference is the ability for you to communicate directly with the researchers, other public agencies, and park staff.

You are invited to attend Fire Island National Seashore's next conference in May 2009. 

Status of a variety of on-going research projects is shared every two years at Fire Island National Seashore.

This conference, which is open to the public, includes updates of recent natural and cultural resource projects conducted on Fire Island and the William Floyd Estate. Experts from academia, government, and conservation organizations present topical sessions in cultural resources; wildlife management; inventory and monitoring; ocean and bay processes, and current park planning. Conference attendees will be able to gain insight into how the National Park Service uses science to guide management decisions.

Topping off the agenda of the last conference was an update of the park's General Management Planning process.  

New for 2007 were two panel discussions:

• A New National Park Service Initiative of Ocean Stewardship: Opportunities for Fire Island National Seashore and Great South Bay
  
• Storm Damage Reduction Planning for the South Shore of Long Island: Panel Presentations on the Fire Island Inlet to Montauk Point Reformulation Plan (FIMP)

Biennial Science Conference Abstracts

A brief synopsis of the presentations from Fire Island National Seashore's past biennial conferences is available on-line for the following years:

• 6th Biennial Planning, Science and Research Conference
  May 9 & 10, 2007

2007 Agenda 
2007 Abstracts

•  5th Biennial Science and
  Cultural Resource Conference
  April 5 & 6, 2005

2005 Agenda
2005 Abstracts:
— Cultural Abstracts
— Wildlife Abstracts
— Inventory and Monitoring Abstracts
— Coastal and Estuarine Processes Abstracts

• 4th Biennial Science Conference
  March 24, 2003
      
     2003 Abstracts