2025 World Conference on Ecological Restoration
September 25, 2025
The 11th World Conference on Ecological Restoration (SER2025) will take place in Denver, Colorado, from Tuesday, September 30, through Saturday, October 4. SER2025 is a biennial gathering of global experts in ecological restoration who come together to collaborate, share ideas, experiences, and learnings. Organizers of SER2025 share that the conference will “…contribute to advancing global restoration goals outlined in established standards, frameworks, and laws.” The goal is to focus on “…implementation, ensuring initiatives are knowledge-based and socially inclusive, with the aim of restoring 30% of degraded ecosystems by 2030.”
Brendan Cousino and Michelle Platz, experts and leaders from LimnoTech’s Coastal Resilience and Restoration Design team, look forward to participating, presenting, and serving as facilitators and panelists. Join the sessions highlighted below, where Brendan and Michelle will share their knowledge and experience in ecological restoration and the intersection with water stewardship, urban ecology, Engineering With Nature (EWN), nature-based solutions (NBS), building partnerships, and more.
S.19 – Scaling Up Restoration with the Network for Engineering With Nature
Type: Symposium
Date/Time: Thursday, October 2, 14:00-16:00 (MDT)
Location: Capitol Ballroom 1-3
Facilitators/Panelists: Jessica Norris (Biohabitats) and Brendan Cousino (LimnoTech)
Description: Where are the frontiers of restoration science? The Network for Engineering With Nature® sees an opportunity to scale up restoration in its advocacy for nature-based approaches to large infrastructure projects. SER members who are in the Network are working together to create and expand opportunities in restoration. In this panel, members will examine how ecological restoration is incorporated in a diversity of functional projects and discuss the partnership, funding, and policy obstacles and opportunities that affect the implementation of nature-based solutions.
Five innovators who are advocating support for nature-based projects with the Army Corps, State Transportation Departments and other major infrastructure investors will share a brief overview of the pillars of N-EWN activity: developing methods and standards, assessing benefits and costs, advocating for regulatory change, and exploring collaborations. With a resolutely interdisciplinary approach, N-EWN designers are actively seeking science and collaborations among practitioners who are able to make specific commitments to advancing nature-based solutions. Participants will offer brief summaries of their specialty topics, supported by examples, and plan for an extended period of time for questions and discussion with a focus on how SER and N-EWN can work together.
Growing the Circle – Extending the Partnerships in Research and Practice
Type: Presentation in S.19 – Scaling Up Restoration with the Network for Engineering With Nature
Date/Time: Thursday, October 2, 14:00-16:00 (MDT)
Location: Capitol Ballroom 1-3
Presenter: Brendan Cousino (LimnoTech)
BioBA: A Biodiversity Benefit Accounting Methodology to Drive Private Sector Participation and Investment in Ecological Restoration through Water Stewardship
Type: Presentation in O.47 – Theme F – Economics and Financing
Date/Time: Saturday, October 4, 10:30-12:30 (MDT)
Location: Mineral Ballroom B
Presenter: Michelle Platz (LimnoTech)
For more information on SER2025, go to https://ser2025.org/
If you want to learn more about LimnoTech’s participation in SER2025, our role in the work described in the above sessions, or our contributions to corporate urban ecology and naturalization, waterway and ecosystem restoration, or water stewardship, please reach out to Brendan Cousino at bcousino@limno.com or Michelle Platz at mplatz@limno.com.
