Year Host Location Dates Theme
2025 SAME Lafayette, LA June 29-July 3 enGULFed in Change: Roux-ted in Resiliency
2024 MME Boston, MA July 28-August 1 Wicked Good Marine Education
2023 NAME Bellingham, WA July 23-27 Strait to Sound: Gathering at the Salish Sea
2022 NYSMEA Hempstead, NY July 9-13 Charting the Course with Perseverance
2021 NMEA Board Virtual July 14-17 Your Connection to Water
2020 Oceania Honolulu, HI Cancelled Nānā I Ke Kumu: Look to The Source
2019 GOMMEA Durham, NH July 22-25 Turning the Tide: Learning from Yesterday, Adapting for Tomorrow
2018 SWMEA Long Beach, CA July 15-20 Charting a Course for Conservation
2017 SCMEA Charleston, SC June 25-29 Seas of Change: Lowcountry Lessons in Resiliency
2016 FMSEA Orlando, FL June 25-July 1 Making Waves: Current Connections in Marine Science
2015 SENEME Newport, RI June 29-July 2 Ocean State, Ocean Planet: Exploring Our World of Water
2014 MAMEA Annapolis, MD July 21-25 Sailing into Marine Education, from the Ocean to the Bay
2013 SAME Mobile, AL July 22-26 Sea the Gulf, Join the Roux
2012 NAME Anchorage, AK June 24-28 North to Alaska’s Seas: A Confluence of Science and Culture
2011 MME Boston, MA June 29-July 2 Cape to Cape: In the Hub of Marine Education
2010 TEAMS Gatlinburg, TN July 19-23 From the Mountains to the Sea
2009 SWMEA Monterey, CA June 29-July 3 One World Conserving One Ocean
2008 GAME Savannah, GA July 20-24 One World, One Water
2007 GOMMEA Portland, ME July 23-27 Downeast 2007: Ideas, Innovations, and Inspirations
2006 NYSMEA New York, NY July 15-22 New York, NY: A City of Islands
2005 Oceania Maui, HI July 11-16 Nānā I Ke Kumu, Nānā I Ke Kai (translated: Look to the Source, Look to the Sea)
2004 FMSEA St. Petersburg, FL July 18-22 Bridge the Gulf: Marine Science in the Sunshine
2003 MAMEA Wilmington, NC July 20-24 Taking Marine Education by Storm
2002 SENEME New London, CT July 22-26 The Race to Hell Gate: Estuaries to the Abyss
2001 NAME Victoria, BC July 17-21 A Water Odyssey: Understanding Our Sense of Place
2000 SWMEA Long Beach, CA July 16-21 Wave of the Future
1999 SCMEA Charleston, SC August 6-11 Exploring Our Coastal Heritage: A Voyage Through Cultures, Lands, and Seas
1998 Humacao, PR August 3-7 An Island Journey in Ecological Diversity
1997 GLEAMS Chicago, IL August 4-8 Land of the Inland Seas: A Journey to the Great Lakes
1996 GOMMEA Durham, NH August 1-5 Making Connections:Global Lessons From the Gulf of Maine
1995 SWMEA San Diego, CA July 31 - August 5 Oceans Without Borders
1994 TEAMS Knoxville, TN August 7-11 Science and Public Policy
1993 SAME New Orleans, LA August 2-7 Where the River Meets the Sea
1992 NAME Portland & Newport, OR August 3-8 Seines to Satellites: Taming Technology
1991 NJMEA New Brunswick, NJ August 6-9 Garden by the Sea
1990 Oceania Hilo & Kona, HI August 5-12 Islands in the Sea
1989 FMSEA Miami, FL July 24-28 Florida’s Fragile Paradise
1988 SWMEA Santa Cruz, CA July 19-22 New Waves in Marine Education: Keeping up with Ocean Discoveries
1987 SENEME Kingston, RI August 4-7 The Magic of the Northeast
1986 GLEAMS Cleveland, OH August 4-8 Those Magnificent Sweetwater Seas
1985 MAMEA Williamsburg, VA July 29 - August 2 The Chesapeake: Prologue to the Future
1984 NAME Victoria, BC August 7-11 The Pacific Northwest: From Canoe to Submersible
1983 GOMMEA South Portland, ME August 2-6 Sights and Sounds of the Sea
1982 SWMEA La Jolla, CA August 17-20 Oceanomics: Riding the Wave of the Future
1981 TMEA Galveston, TX August 5-8 Toward the Coastal Frontier
1980 MME Salem, MA August 6-9 Our Coast: Heritage, Conflict and Challenge
1979 GLEAMS Milwaukee, WI August 13-18 The Great Lakes: Our Fourth Coastline
1978 NAME Olympia, WA August 8-12
1977 MAMEA Newark, DE Marine Awareness: Educating for the Future
1976 SWMEA Pacific Grove, CA