NRWA’s Annual Meeting Keynote Speakers
The NRWA has had a long line of distinguished Keynote Speakers at our Annual Meetings. Our speakers have included leaders in the field of freshwater resource protection, notable wildlife conservationists and biologists, acclaimed authors, and leaders in the business world. Their work inspires ours, and we hope the reverse is true as well.
2021 NRWA Staff
2020 Linh Phu, Eastern MA National Wildlife Refuge Complex Manager
2019 50th Anniversary Celebration
2018 Christine Schadler, Wild Canid Ecologist
2017 David Vallee, Hydrologist-in-Charge National Weather Service Northeast Rivers Forecast Center
2016 Christopher A. Williams, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Geography, Clark University
2015 Robert Zimmerman, Jr., Executive Director of the Charles River Watershed Association
2014 Wayne Klockner, Vice President and MA State Director at The Nature Conservancy
2013 Eric Chivian, M.D., Founder of the Center for Health & the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, and co-founder of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, Author
2012 Dave Anderson, Director of Education, Society for the Protection of NH Forests
2011 Daniel M. Ashe, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
2010 William Waterway Marks, Author and Water Activist
2009 NRWA 40th Anniversary-- 40 on Our 40th Awards
2008 Akiko Busch, Swimmer and Author
2007 Gary Hirshberg, Chairman, President, and CEO of Stonyfield Farm
2006 Mitchell Thomashow, Environmental Educator and Author
2005 Sandra Postel, Founder of the Global Water Policy Project and Author
2004 NRWA 35th Anniversary—Celebratory Contra Dance
2003 Marion Stoddart, NRWA Founder
2002 Ben Kilham, Wildlife Biologist and Author
2001 Peter Alden, Naturalist and Author
2000 Tom Wessels, Ecologist and Author
1999 NRWA 30th Anniversary Celebration
1998 Arthur Bergeron, Historian
1997 Lyn Billman-Golemme, AICP, Regional Planner