50 years of meetings, captured in these beautiful quilts hanging in the ballroom!

Thank you to A WOC Space for an informative workshop! It was a great start to #BEM2022 and paramount effort towards creating a fully inclusive and welcoming space in marine science.

Ice breaker, happening now in the ballroom! Mingle, snack, hydrate! #BEM2022

At last night's ice breaker, current BEM president Dr. Jenn Dijkstra gave a shout out to two planning committee members that are invaluable to #BEM2022, Tara and Kristen!! Here they are, yesterday, all set up for the first registrants!!

Thursday 3/30 schedule! #BEM2022

Starting now!! Plenary Speaker Dr. Larry Harris 8:30-10:00 in the Ballroom! #BEM2022

Presenting a poster in either Harbor's Edge or the Ballroom tonight? Feel free to hang your posters when you're ready! No worries if you need to rotate the poster board to either portrait or landscape orientation !! #BEM2022

Great first poster session to cap off the suite of excellent talks presented today! #BEM2022

Come to my talk on Friday at 9am during #BEM2022! I'll be talking about the impact my Master's advisor & founder of BEM Dr. Larry Harris had on me and some interesting data on snail shapes and how they interact with crabs (hint: it's bad for snails) @KVanVolkom Benthic Ecology Meeting Society

Loving the #BEM2022 logo?! We do too!! Major props to Brandon O'Brien for his creativity in designing it!!

Thursday 3/31 schedule ! Looking forward to another great day! #BEM2022

Wow!! 177 talks and 50 posters in two days! Clearly everyone has brought their A game to #BEM2022. Looking forward the poster sessions tonight from 6-9 in the Ballroom and Harbor's Edge!

Great poster session tonight! Lots of engagement, enthusiasm, and interesting projects! #BEM2022

Friday 4/1 schedule! #BEM2022

April showers bring May flowers, but lucky for us, the weather is forecasted to clear up in time for the field trips! #BEM2022 🌤

Saturday 4/2 schedule! Looking forward to the last day of sessions and the banquet tonight !! #BEM2022

Congratulations to our student award winners!! Posters: 3rd - Annabeth Rawls, 2nd - Nicholas Yoong, 1st - Sarah Greenberg and Armorel Eason ! Orals: 3rd - Isabelle Neylan, 2nd - Hannah Diebboll, 1st - Karl Koehler !! #BEM2022

That's a wrap #BEM2022 !! Thank you to all attendees for an excellent meeting, Chris Schwartz for his IT support, Tara, Kristen, Jenn, and my fellow meeting organizers, the Sheraton staff, and to our generous sponsors! Hopefully catch you in Miami for #BEM2023!