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Leading Through Unprecedented Change: Strategies to Navigate Uncertainty in Water Resources
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🔹 NAFSMA 2025 Annual Meeting 🔹
Collaboration | Innovation | Adaptation
With federal resources tightening and the demands on local communities rising, now is the time to come together, think boldly, and act decisively.
The 2025 NAFSMA Annual Meeting is more than a conference—it's a call to action.
Join peers and leaders from across the country to:
✅ Explore how to do more with less through innovative funding and delivery models
✅ Learn from those who've successfully navigated shrinking federal support
✅ Build strategic partnerships that unlock solutions across sectors
✅ Share bold ideas that are reshaping flood risk and water quality management
Our communities can’t wait for help to arrive—we must lead it.
Let’s innovate, collaborate, and adapt—together.
📍 Chicago
📅 July 21-24, 2025
The Hotel is sold out. Please let us know if you need recommendations for an alternative hotel.
2025 Mentoring Session –
Flood Evacuation and Real Time Forecasting
Key Take Aways and Session Presentations
2025 NAFSMA Mentoring Session Key Take Aways
Rachel Hogan Carr, Executive Director, Nature Nurture Center: Improving Forecasting Communication Tools
Helene Schneider, Sr. Regional Advisor, United States Interagency Council on Homelessness
Carson MacPherson-Krutsky, Research Associate, Natural Hazards Center: Social Considerations for Evacuation
Maria Cox Lamm, State NFIP Coordinator, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
James Beller, Lieutenant, Butte County Sheriff’s Office
Jason Needham, Consequence Specialist, USACE
Dr. David Novak, Director, NOAA, NWS Weather Prediction Center
Chad Hecht, Meteorologist, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes
Bruce Rindahl, P.E., Mile High Flood District: Real time flood forecasting and warning program
Ataul Hannan, Planning Division Director, Harris County Flood Control District, Houston, TX
