| Proposed Session Titles | Descriptions |
| Marine habitat restoration | This session will focus on topics related to marine habitat restoration, including but not limited to restoration showcases, specialised technology development, propagation, out-planting and monitoring strategies, spatial marine planning, coral nurseries and coral enhancement structures. |
| Marine communities through space and time | This session will focus on topics related to the temporal and spatial aspects of marine communitees, including but not limited to temporal stability or variability, patterns, drivers and properties of marine communities, species distribution, trophic ecology, biogeography, nutrient and biogeochemical cycling and temporal variations. |
| Extreme conditions, resilience, and refugia in the Red Sea. | This session will focus on topics related to the the coping mechanisms of corals against extreme conditions, including but not limited to coral bleaching, effects of heatwaves, ocean warming, acidification, salinity increase, irradiance and deoxygenation, identifying, managing and monitoring of refugia, physiology, behavior, population dynamics and adaptation potential of corals. |
| Megafauna Ecology and Conservation | This session will focus on topics related to Red Sea megafauna, including but not limited to large fish, marine mammals, sea turtles, and sea birds, and will address threats, management, protection, and conservation of these species. |
| Deep-sea and mesophotic biology and conservation | This session will focus on topics related to mesophotic and deep sea biology, including but not limited to deep coral ecosystems and associated fauna, benthic species, adaptation mechanisms, threats, biodiversity, distribution, physiology and ecology, molecular tools, methods and approaches, exploration and conservation |
| Volcanism, hydrothermal activity, and biodiversity in the deep Red Sea Rift | This session will focus on topics related to volcanism and hydrothermalism in the deep Red Sea Rift, including but not limited to geological processes, volcanology, geochemistry, tectonics, oceanography and hydrothermal fluids, natural resources, bio-geosciences, habitat mapping, deep benthic fauna, and microbiology. |
| Sub-seafloor structure, earthquakes, and geohazards | This session will focus on topics related to (subseafloor) structure, earthquakes and natural hazards of the Red Sea and its gulfs, including but not limited to studies in geomorphology, geology, geodesy, seismology, acoustics and related fields, tectonics of the Red Sea and Dead Sea transform fault system, hazard assessments and the effect on the mega-projects. |
| Advances in marine technologies | This session will focus on topics related to advances in marine technology, including but not limited to robotics, underwater communication, monitoring, long-term surveys, observations, fleet management, data and sample collection, photonics, control systems and machine learning. |
| Environmental change impacts on Red Sea biology | This session will focus on topics related to the impacts and implications of environmental and climate change in the Red Sea, including but not limited to field, laboratory, theoretical, and modelling studies, conducted over a broad range of spatial, temporal and biological scales. |
| Oceanography: physical and Biogeochemical processes | This session will focus on topics related to physical and biogeochemical oceanography, including but not limited to studies on small and mesoscale processes, Red Sea circulation, eddies, nutrient and physical gradients and their effect on pelagic organisms and the food chain, atmospheric and oceanographic interaction, and forecasting. |
| Evolution and ecology of Marine Carbonates systems | This session will focus on topics related to past and present marine carbonate systems, including but not limited to effects of temperature, salinity, sea-level, sea-level lowstands, and CO2 fluctuations over time on the evolution of reef-systems, coral-reef dynamics and carbonate deposional systems. |
| Policy, governance and management | This session will focus on topics related to governance, policies and managment of the Red Sea, including but not limited to economic aspects and impacts of conversation and enhancement, fishing, aquaculture and tourism policies, protected areas, and balancing economic and natural impact. |
| Geological, biological and renewable resources | This session will focus on topics related to various resources in the Red Sea, including but not limited to geological and oceanographic resources, e.g., metaliferous sediments, hydrothermal resources, seawater lithium and seawater for desalinization, biological resources, e.g., (extreme) microbes for biotechnological purposes, fisheries, and renewable resources, e.g., ocean currents or gravitational energy and CO2 storage. |
Marine waste
| This session will focus on topics related to Marine waste management. |
| Human interactions with the Marine environment | This session will focus on topics related to human interactions with the Red Sea, including but not limited to tourism development, industrial cities and factories, contaminants (e.g. pharmaceuticals) and the food web, plastic and other pollution, and overfishing. |
| Vision 2030 and Red Sea Giga-projects | This session will focus on topics related to Vision 2030 and the Red Sea Giga-Projects, including but not limited to highlights and case studies of conservation and enhancement at the Giga-Projects, the Saudi Green Initiative, regenerative tourism, and aims and objectives for the Red Sea for Vision 2030. |
| Other | If you do not think your proposed talk or poster fits into any of the above categories but is still relevant for the overall conference, we welcome your submission. The committee will review all submitted proposals. |