Coastal Zone 07

This week I'm attending Coastal Zone 07 in Portland, OR and will more than likely be covering my experience on these pages to see how it goes. I attended this biennial conference in 2003 in Baltimore, MD and it had a great impact on my choice in "careers" . . . where else do people attend professional conferences in shorts, hawaiian shirts and flip flops? That wasn't the only thing that I came away with from the experience, however. CZ03 was definitely a big push in convincing me that I could find really satisfying work in the "coastal zone." While four years ago I attended not knowing all that much about the field and being pretty naive about how things worked, I look forward to approaching this year's conference with a slightly more sophisticated outlook and the possibility of making contacts and working on leads toward, dare I say it, gainful employment. Furthermore, I'm going to kind of float the idea of Coastopolis and see how it is received with people, and potentially make some friends that would be willing to help with content and/or development. We'll see how successful I am. I wish that I had much more completed on the site to show to people, but these last couple of weeks have proven slightly less productive than I would have liked. Prehaps tonight I can add a bit more content and/or spruce up some of the pages and have a bit more to offer than what is currently up.

Anyway, I just checked in to the HI where I'm staying and am headed down to the conference center to register now. We'll see how it goes.