Annual Meeting 2025
Thu, Dec 11
|Virtual Event
Join us for our Annual Meeting where we will reflect on 2025, cover board elections, and hear from Rebecca Hale, Senior Scientist at Smithsonian Environmental Research Center on how people are creating new relationships with streams and rivers that reconnect city dwellers with urban nature.
Time & Location
Dec 11, 2025, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Virtual Event
About the event
Join Mass Rivers for our Annual Meeting where we will reflect on 2025, cover board elections, and hear from Rebecca Hale, Senior Scientist at Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.
Her talk, "From Trash to Treasure: Reconnecting with Urban Streams" is about how we often think of cities in opposition to nature. But cities have a rich natural history, including many freshwater ecosystems. Urban streams and rivers have been used as dumps for human waste and trash and have been buried, channeled or armored to protect cities from flooding. But urban streams also provide important sources of water, spiritual values, recreation, and an opportunity to connect with nature. Rebecca Hale will reveal how people are creating new relationships with streams and rivers that reconnect city dwellers with urban nature and each other.