Fall 2025 Virtual Meeting Resources

The NIWR Fall meeting took place on Zoom from 1:00 to 5:00 PM EDT on October 28, 2025. Please see below for the agenda and other useful links from the meeting.

If you have any questions, please reach out to NIWR’s Interim Communications Officer, Erin Flanagan, at eflanagan.niwr@gmail.com.

---

Resources & Links

• Fall meeting agenda (see below)
• NIWR documents on this website
  

  • Legislative activities
  • Bylaws
  • Resources
  • Past newsletters
  • More to come!

• NIWR communications brought to you by the new Interim Communications Officer, Erin Flanagan.
  

  • LinkedIn
  • Monthly newsletter/Google Group listserv
    

    • Email Erin to be added or removed.
    • Feel free to send Erin any events or items you would like to share in the newsletter, on LinkedIn, or on the website.

• NIWR Staff Network Box folder (most of these resources are on the NIWR website under Documents)
  

  • Monthly meeting information and recordings
    

    • Meeting time changed to 2:30 PM ET

  • RFP task timeline examples
    

    • Feel free to share your WRRI’s RFP task timeline! These documents are particularly useful for new directors.

  • Please email Amy Weckle (aweckle@illinois.edu) if you have trouble accessing the Box folder.

• NIWR Member Funding & Governance, 2019
  

  • StoryMap showcasing NIWR data.

• National Institutes for Water Resources: Fulfilling the Water Resource Research Act Mission, 2016–2020
  

  • Great article providing insight into NIWR, written by one of our own directors, Jonathan Yoder (WA).

• WRRI brochures and reports
  

  • Check out our NIWR map! This map links to the websites and brochures of the institutes that many take with them to D.C.
  • If we’re missing documents or brochures from your institute, email them to Erin.

• All poll results with graphs
  

  • 104(b) RFP Process
  • Advisory Board
  • Advocacy & Stakeholders
  • Data Centers
  • Shutdown Impact
  • WRRI Communications

• Slides from meeting:
  

  • Main presentation (Linda Weavers, OH, & Yu-Feng Forrest Lin, IL)
    

    • Includes agenda, opening remarks, and breakout sessions information.

  • Advanced payments (India Allen, VSA)
  • Messaging survey results (Brian Rahm, NY)
  • Communications (Jerry Kauffman, DE, & Erin Flanagan, NIWR)
  • Congressional relations/FY26 appropriations (Leslee Gilbert & Laurie Katz, VSA)
  • Breakout session 1: Preparing for congressional visits
    

    • Preparing materials (Sharon Megdal, AZ)
    • Connecting throughout the year (John Fear, NC)