3D view of the Welch-Allyn Lodge

Speakers

 

 

Bios

Mark Anderson - holds a Ph.D. in Ecology from University of New Hampshire where his researched focused on the viability and spatial assessment of ecological communities in the Northern Appalachian ecoregion.  He has been the Director of Conservation Science for the Eastern Region of the Nature Conservancy for fifteen years, providing ecological analysis and landscape scale assessments for conservation efforts from Quebec to Virgina.  He is co-author of the National Vegetation Classification as well as many papers on applied conservation science.  His research interests are in ecosystem dynamics, population demographics, disturbance processes, spatial scale and landscape properties.

Erin Aigner is a graphics editor for The New York Times. Every couple of weeks, the Times splurges to publish large, colorful, analytical maps produced by a very bright and talented young graphics editor with formal training in GIS and cartography.

Don Cooke was a member of the Census Bureau team that developed the Dual Independent Map Encoding (DIME) system in 1967.In 1968 he co-founded Urban Data Processing, Inc, now Harte-Hanks Data Technologies. HHDT is a leader in supplying MCIF services and software to banks. In 1980, Mr. Cooke founded Geographic Data Technology, Inc, which now employs 550 people in its role as vendor of premium street and boundary databases for Business Geographics and LBS applications. GDT was the major TIGER digitizing contractor in the mid-1980s, and is a CRADA partner and data supplier to the Census Bureau. Mr. Cooke served on the Board of Directors of URISA in the 1970s and was a member of the National Academy of Science's Mapping Science Committee from 1989 to 1993. He is a graduate of Yale, and studied Civil Engineering Systems at MIT.

Derrick Crandall is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Recreation Coalition, a position he has held since 1981. He is the Executive Vice President of The Recreation Roundtable and serves as Chair of the Scenic Byways Coalition and National Recreation Lakes Coalition and co-chairs the Coalition for Recreational Trails. He formerly chaired and now serves as Treasurer of the American League of Anglers and Boaters. He served as a member of the President's Commission on Americans Outdoors from 1985 to 1987. He received the Chevron Conservation Award and was named to the President's Commission on Environmental Quality in 1991. He was the initial Chairman of the Take Pride in America Advisory Board, appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, and served as the Chair of the Take Pride in America Partners Council. He was a Founding Director of the National Forest Foundation, appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture. He has served on several national judging panels, including co-chairing the U.S. Department of the Interior's Take Pride in America award program. Among the dozens of public-policy programs in which he has played a central role are the National Scenic Byways Program, Recreation Fee Demonstration Program, Recreational Trails Program, Wallop-Breaux Program, and the National Recreation Lakes Study Commission. These efforts have been recognized in many ways, including induction into the RV Hall of Fame and receipt of the Annual Award of the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators. USA Today has described him as "the outdoor guru. He received the Spirit of Take Pride Award in October 2004 and was recognized with a Centennial Award by the USDA Forest Service. He serves as a member of the National Park System Advisory Board Health and Recreation Committee. Mr. Crandall served on the Board of the American Society of Association Executives for seven years, including two terms as Vice Chairman. He received ASAE's Professional Performance Award in 1980, his Certified Association Executive recognition in 1990 and was named an ASAE Fellow in 1992. He has served in leadership roles on numerous community and philanthropic organizations including the executive committee of WOW-Wonderful Outdoor World. He is an honors graduate of Dartmouth College.

Kris Hughes - Director of the Ontario County Planning Dept.

Richard Iuli - The Climate Project®

Michael Jones is the Chief Technology Officer of Google Earth, which provides distributed geospatial visualization to users worldwide. He is an accomplished technical presenter, an inventor with eleven issued US patents, a director on private company boards, and an advisor to several Silicon Valley projects. He was formerly President & CEO of Intrinsic Graphics, Director of Advanced Graphics Software at Silicon Graphics responsible for OpenGL, Performer and all other graphics APIs, co-founder of a movie colouring company, and a computer graphics consultant during the 1980s. He has been a computer programmer since the fourth grade. Michael is a supporter of, advocate for, and photographer in the Gigapxl Project with the ambition to preserve all 788 UNESCO World Heritage Sites using the unique visual capabilities of the Gigapxl cameras.

Jim Lorenz leads Microsoft's Virtual Earth State & Local, as well as Education, sales and marketing. In this capacity, he is responsible for the introduction and adoption of Virtual Earth capabilities to U.S. State & Local Government, as well as Education Public Sector customers.

With more than 10 years as a consumer and producer of hardware and software solutions for complex business problems including visualization, situational awareness, and collaboration, Mr. Lorenz has the background to consult on a wide range of opportunities for organizations to improve their decision-making performance with the aid of the Virtual Earth platform in combination with communications and collaboration technologies.

From 2000-2006, Mr. Lorenz served as a Information Worker Solution Specialist & Strategic Account Executive for the State & Local Government East Region, working with customers to realize their investments for Health & Human Services, Justice & Public Safety, Transportation,& Finance, as well as Administration. During his tenure, he succeeded in gaining widespread adoption of the leading cross-organizational collaboration technology across Government, State & Local organizations, helping evangelize the state wide law enforcement portal in AL, as well as Retirement System in the state of North Carolina. He enjoys spending weekends with his family at Smith Mountain lake, VA, where "What about Bob?" was filmed with Bill Murray & Richard Dreyfus.

Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Lorenz spent time with CIBER, a tier 2 consulting company, Inacom Information Systems, & an industrial sales capacity. He was a resident of Orange County, NY for 20 years through 1986 & is a season ticket holder to the NY Giants.

Adena Schutzberg is Executive Editor of Directions Magazine and contributes to its widely-read weekly electronic newsletters and website. Before joining Directions Magazine, Schutzberg founded and edited GIS Monitor for nearly five years.

She is also the Principal of ABS Consulting Group, Inc., a GIS consulting firm providing services to clients including the Open Geospatial Consortium and GIS software and imagery companies.

Before opening her own company, Schutzberg headed U.S. operations for UK-based Cadcorp, and held several positions at ESRI over eight years. She began her career heading Arthur D. Little’s CAD/GIS lab and teaching college geography. She holds a BA in Chemistry from the University of Chicago and an MS in Geography from Pennsylvania State University.