Dear MARMAM community The 24th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals will be held in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA at the Palm Beach County Convention Center from December 13-17th, 2021. It will be the very first fully hybrid, live-virtual conference of the Society for Marine Mammalogy. The theme of the conference will be “A Sea of Change: Transforming Science into Stewardship”. We are enthusiastic to announce the opening of abstract and workshop proposal submission, as well as conference registration on January 14th, 2021. https://www.smmconference.org <https://www.smmconference.org/> Despite these challenging times, the organizing committee and the board of the Society for Marine Mammalogy are working very hard to make this conference safe, diverse, and inclusive. Our top priority is to provide a safe and healthy environment for all participants at SMM2021. The SMM2021 organizing committee, Amy C. Hirons, Conference co-chair Jeremy J. Kiszka, Conference co-chair Stephen Trumble, Scientific Program co-chair Sascha Usenko, Scientific Program co-chair ---------------------------- Jeremy Kiszka (PhD) Florida International University Department of Biological Sciences & Coastlines and Oceans Division Institute of Environment 3000 NE 151st Street, North Miami, FL33181, USA Tel: +1 (305)-919-5234 Website: https://ccor.fiu.edu - Marine Conservation Ecology Lab. Principal Investigator https://marineconservationecologylab.com