17th Annual Maritime Risk Symposium-Student Research Poster Contest

CALL FOR STUDENT RESEARCH POSTERS!

The 17^th Annual Maritime Risk Symposium invites undergraduate and graduate students from colleges and universities worldwide to participate in the 2027 Maritime Risk Symposium Student Research Poster Competition. The poster competition, sponsored by the CCICADA Center based at Rutgers University, will be held online with winners given the option of presenting their posters at the Maritime Risk Symposium on June 15-16, 2027 in San Diego, CA, USA. (Attendance at the Symposium is not required to enter the competition or present a winning poster.)

The Maritime Risk Symposium, organized this year by National University, is a two day event in which an anticipated 200 – 240 participants from government agencies, commercial entities, and institutions of research and higher education meet to discuss various threats, challenges and risks to the international and domestic Marine Transportation System.

Students or student teams may submit posters of their research in one of the following topic areas:

• Maritime Work Force Resilience
• International Maritime Resilience
• Critical Infrastructure Interdependencies in the Port/Maritime Environment
• Maritime Law and Resilience
• Maritime Autonomy Resilience
• Port Physical Security: Challenges to Resilience
• Nuclear/Alternative fuels (ships, barges, boats, etc.)
• Modular Reactor: Challenges in a Maritime Envrinoment
• Maritime Women Culture and Resilience
• A Topic of Your Choice with a Nexus in Security Threats and Risks to the Marine Transportation System
• Maritime Women Culture and Resilience

Students are required to use the Maritime Risk Poster Template as well as preparing a 5-minute video presentation of their poster.

All files should be named lastname_firstname_grad or lastname_firstname_undergrad with the name of the person submitting on behalf of a research team and indication of whether the team consists of graduate students or undergraduates.

To be considered, all submissions must be provided to the Submission LINK no later than midnight, Thursday, April 1, 2027, Eastern time.

Judging will be done online prior to the Conference. Competition winners will be announced on or about Thursday, April 15, 2027.

All students, whether participants in the poster competition or not, may register for the Maritime Risk Symposium at a discounted student rate. A registration page will be posted at Maritime Risk Symposium. Submit questions to [email protected].