2025 Annual Watershed Conference

The Hudson River Watershed Alliance’s 2025 conference theme is Collaborating Across Boundaries.

This year’s Annual Watershed Conference will focus on building strong and sustainable watershed collaborations for clean water and healthy communities. The conference will share strategies and case studies to support connections across geographic boundaries, sectors, and silos, building capacity within and across communities to implement shared goals.

The conference will have two components: a virtual session on Wednesday, October 22 from 1-2:30 pm via Zoom webinar and an in-person session on Tuesday, October 28 from 9 am to 3 pm at the Henry A. Wallace Center, FDR Presidential Library & Museum in Hyde Park, NY. Registration is now open, at the bottom of the this page.

Confirmed topics and speakers so far include:

Insights, frameworks, and collaboration best practices from the Partnership Learning Project, an in-depth study commissioned by the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board – Jennifer Arnold, Reciprocity Consulting (virtual session)
Communicating science with impact – Anne Toomey, Pace University (in-person session)
Teaming up for better water quality in the Lower Esopus Creek – Stuart Leigh, Lower Esopus Creek Advisory Council & Liaison for the Town of Marbletown, and Candice Constantine, Tighe & Bond (in-person session)
Coordinating across municipalities through the Hudson River Drinking Water Intermunicipal Council (Hudson 7) – Mayor Gary Bassett, Village of Rhinebeck (in-person session)
Coordinating across county boundaries through the Upper Hudson River Watershed Coalition – Allison Hargrave Gaddy, Lake Champlain – Lake George Regional Planning Board
Interactive workshop on scenario planning to explore possible futures and identify resilient actions – Larissa Read, Common Ground Consulting (in-person session)

An example of last year’s conference format and agenda is available here. Photos from the 2024 in-person conference session are available in the Flikr album here.

Photos by Will Haydon, Marist College ’25. For more photos, see our Flikr album.

Sponsor the Annual Watershed Conference

Interested in sponsoring the watershed conference? More details are available in the form here, and in our 2025 sponsorship deck. If you’d like to pay for sponsorship by credit card, you can use our online form.

We anticipate strong participation from watershed communities from throughout the Hudson Valley. Over 200 people participated in our hybrid conference in 2024. We are working to make the conference as accessible as possible for participants. Your sponsorship will fund the conference proceedings and support the attendance of individuals and groups in need of financial assistance.

Thank you to our sponsors!

Watershed Sponsor:

River Sponsors:

Anne & Fred Osborn III / The EASTER Foundation
Hudson River Valley Greenway