Moving Toward an Oyster Modeling Framework for the Gulf of Mexico: Informing Gulf-Wide Oyster Restoration

This report presents findings from a virtual workshop, organized by The Pew Charitable Trusts as part of the Gulf of Mexico Conference 2022 in Baton Rouge, LA (April 2022), that brought together restoration practitioners, modelers, resource agency managers, and other invested oyster professionals to discuss how to best maximize modeling efficiencies, reduce the disconnect between how models are developed by scientists and used/accessed by natural resource managers, and advance towards a single modeling framework to guide Gulf-wide oyster habitat restoration.