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Opening Plenary (Saratoga Ballroom)
Welcome remarks and conference overview: Al Leidner, Booz Allen Hamilton and President NYS GIS Association
State of the State - Bill Johnson, NYS Geographic Information Officer
9:00 am-5:00 pm
Exhibits Open
10:00 am-10:30 am
Mid-Morning Break (Saratoga Ballroom)
10:30 am-11:30 am
Keynote Presentation – Jack Levis, UPS - (Saratoga Ballroom)
11:30 am-1:00 pm
Lunch (Saratoga Ballroom)
1:00 pm-2:30 pm
Invited Speaker Sessions:
Emergency Response Exercise: (Broadway 1 & 2)Facilitator: Bruce Oswald, Oswald Associates LLC; Presenters: Julia O'Brien, FEMA; Tim Ruhren, NYS OIT; Douglas J. Schuetz, GIS Director, County of Rockland; Don Meltz, Don Meltz Planning & GIS
Mobile Apps (Broadway 3 & 4)Facilitator: Mickey Dietrich, Tug Hill Commission; Presenter:Linda Rockwood, Mohawk Valley GIS
Web Map Services (Travers) Facilitator: Bill Johnson, NYS ITS; Presenter: Frank Winters
Waypoint GPS Workshop (Platinum Sponsor) (Highrock) Facilitator: Tom Sears, County of Steuben; Presenter: Jonathan Cobb, Waypoint Technology Group
GIS Cloud Solution (Highrock) Facilitator: John Barge, NYS Adirondack Park Agency; Presenters: Scott Bridges, Google; Dr. John VanHoesen, Green Mountain College
Mobile App Development Workshop (Broadway 3 & 4) Facilitator: Mickey Dietrich, Tug Hill Commission; Presenter: Kiichi Takeuchi, Long Island University
Crowdsourcing Panel (Travers) Facilitator: Eric Herman, NYS Thruway Authority; Presenters: Michael Naughton, Town of Huntington; Colin Reilly, NYC DOITT; Jeff Mooney, SeeClickFix; Brent Kinal & Jennifer Dean, NY Natural Heritage Program
5:00 pm-7:00 pm
Networking Reception with Sponsors (Saratoga Ballroom)
GIS to the Rescue: Getting Westchester’s Emergency Responders There Faster, Jim Hall, Bowne Management Systems, Inc.
A Tool for Automated Earthquake Response, Eric A. Herman, NYS Thruway Authority
An Open Source GIS Solution for Hurricane Disaster and Recovery, Michael Uffer, 408 Group
Serious Gaming and Spatial Thinking – Emergency Response Case Study, Alyssa Mathews, Rochester Institute of Technology
Data Extraction & Visualization Session Facilitator: Verne LaCair, Vertex Geospatial, Inc.
Mobile Data Collection and Mapping for STEM Education John Longanecker, NBT Solutions LLC
Realistic 3D Building Modeling for Use in GIS and other Software Jeffrey Langella, NYS Office of Information Technology Services; Matthew Palmer, Erdman Anthony Associates
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for Air Photo Mapping and Event Response Bill Timmins, GIS Services
Automating Pen and Ink Landscape Illustrations James Mower, Department of Geography and Planning University at Albany
10:30 am-12:00 pm
NYS GIS Association Annual Meeting and Strategy Session (Saratoga Ballroom)Facilitator:Alan Leidner, President NYS GIS Association
12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Lunch & GeoSpatial Institute Intro (Saratoga Ballroom)
Sponsored by C.T. Male AssociatesFacilitatorsJulie Tolar, RGRTA
Mickey Dietrich, Tug Hill Commission
Alan Leidner, Booz Allen Hamilton
1:00 pm-2:30 pm
User Presentations
Mobile Mapping Session (Broadway 1 & 2) Facilitator: John Barge,NYS Adirondack Park Agency
ArcGIS Collector App for Stormwater Phase II Inspections Daniel Allen, GISP, MRB Group
Field Data Collection Using Smart Phones, Tablets, and GPS Devices: A Case Study Wende Mix, SUNY Buffalo State College
Mobile Mapping of Greenhouse Gas Emissions John Monell - Conestoga-Rovers and Associates, Inc.
Deploying Esri-based Web-GIS Applications Across Multiple Platforms and Mobile Device Duncan Selwood, Latitude Geographics
Historical Mapping & Feature Extraction Session (Broadway 3 & 4) Facilitator: Bill Johnson, NYS ITS
The New York Shoreline: What Do Four Centuries in the Historic Record Show? Katherine Kiyanitsa, NYS ITS- GIS Program Office
Historical Map Polygon and Feature Extractor Mauricio Giraldo Arteaga, New York Public Library Labs
Historical Maps, Geospatial Methods, and NYC’s Early Chemicals and Petroleum Industries Peter Spellane, Chemistry Department, NYC College of Technology CUNY
Maps at NYPL: Reweaving the Fabric of Historical Place Matt Knutzen, New York Public Library
Environmental Session (Travers) Facilitator: Susan Nixson, City of Ithaca
Automatic Calculation of Place-Based Questions for NYS’s Newly Updated Environmental Assessment Forms Austin Fisher, Fountains Spatial, Inc.
Geospatial Analyses of Urban Drainage Network Structures and Implications for Flood Response in the Kromma Kill Watershed Katherine Meierdiercks, Siena College
GeoWEPP I,II & III – Managing Runoff, Erosion & Sedimenta on Slopes and Watersheds; Assessing Structural & Non-Structural Best Management Practices Haoyi Xiong, LESAM - University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Platinum Session: Bowne Management System (Highrock) Facilitator: Tom Sears, County of Steuben
2:30 pm-2:45 pm
Afternoon Break (Saratoga Ballroom)
2:45 pm-4:15 pm
User Presentations:
Location Based Solutions Session (Broadway 1 & 2) Facilitator: Tom Sears, County of Steuben
Getting Student to School – a GIS Approach to Distance Based Transportation Eligibility Timothy Calabrese, Joanna Laroussi & Kevin Jenkins, NYC Department of Education Office of Pupil Transportation
Village of East Hampton, Police Department, Incident Mapper Girk Cakmak, Bowne Management Systems, Inc.
Combating Alien Invaders with Geographic Information Science James Kernan, SUNY Geneseo
The Face of Geocoding Has Changed in New York State Jason Baum, GISP, NYS ITS GIS Program Office
A Model for Interagency Shared GIS Services: A Case Study from the North Country Dave Cook, Development Authority of the North Country
Morgen Healy, Applied Geographics Inc.
Joint Infrastructure Management Initiative Richard Snow, Jefferson County Highway Department & Mickey Dietrich, NYS Tug Hill Commission
NYS Orthoimagery Return on Investment Study Ray Faught, New York State Information Technology Services - GIS Program Office
Sharing Health Data and Protecting Patient Confidentiality Using GIS Tools Developed by the New York State Department of Health Thomas Talbot, NYS Department of Health
Gwen LaSelva, NYS Department of Health, Center for Environmental Health
Education Session (Travers) Lindi Quackenbush, SUNY ESF
Student Lightning Sessions
Jessica Aleman; Rephotography in the Saratoga Lake Watershed Utilizing ESRI Story Maps to Visualize Landscape and Land Change.
Nishan Bhattarai: Using Remote Sensing and Geospatial Techniques in Hydrological Applications
Max Koenig: Quadcopters:An investigation into the suitability of consumer quadcopters for mapping.
Sean Regalado: Delineating Road Salt Discharge in the Adirondack Park
Jeremy Rosen: Skidmore Woodland Atlas
Elysa Smigielski: Analysis of New York State Forests' Affect Upon Residential Property Values