Northwest  WA  GIS  Users  Group

Meeting Agendas & Locations

The Northwest Washington GIS Users Group is an informal gathering of GIS professionals meeting quarterly (typically the 3rd Friday of the month in March, June, Sept. and Dec). Locations of meetings vary, ranging from Everett, WA. to Bellingham, WA, depending upon the host of a particular meeting. To be added to the email list to receive announcements prior to meetings contact Stefan.

See also:   NWWaGIS Info Page

                 NWWaGIS Bulletin Board (announcements and local information)

See also:   Bellingham GIS Breakfast Group.

                NW ESRI User Group & List of other NW User Groups

                Bellingham AutoCAD User Group

               WAURISA Washington GIS Forums

Below is an incomplete archive of past meetings, speakers and topics. If you have an addition or a correction, please send it to Stefan.

2009 MEETINGS:

    September 18, 2009 - 9:00-12:00, Mt. Vernon (PUD) map

Jessica Archer & Jessica Bennett (Wa DOE & DOH) - Wa Marine Public Access Project

Kathy Taylor (Wa DOE) - Wa. Coastal Atlas: Informing Marine Resource Planning and Management

Jeremy Davies (NOAA) - Mapping the Potential Distribution of Shallow-Subtidal Eelgrass in the Southern Salish Sea

    June 19, 2009 - 9:00-12:00, Mt. Vernon (PUD) map

CARTOGRAPHY MEETING

TJ Abbenhaus (ESRI) - Cartography Tips & Tricks w/ArcGIS 9.3

Misc. Presenters - Map demos, postings, tips, etc.

Everyone is encouraged to bring samples of their work to post and/or discuss

If you'd like to present a short tip or map please contact stefan

    March 20, 2009 - 9:00-12:00, City of Bellingham (Fireplace Room) map

Don Burdick (City of Bellingham) - Redeveloping the GIS Viewer Application with ArcGIS Server & Web Services

Chris Behee (City of Bellingham) - Urban Modeling Using ESRI's ArcMap and ArcScene & Google's SketchUp

2008 MEETINGS:

    December 12, 2008 - 9:00-12:00, Mt. Vernon (PUD) map

               (NOTE: Due to the holidays the December meeting is on the second Friday of the month)

Josh Greenberg (Skagit Co.) - Mapping Riparian Land Use within Agricultural Zones

Sean Carson & Kari Secrest (Skagit Co.) - GIS and the NWIMT (NW Incident Management Team)

Mike Geertsen & Bill Bothell (Depiction, Inc.) - Depiction Software Demo (online mapping software)

    September 19, 2008 - Padilla Bay (National Estuarine Research Reserve) map

TJ Abbenhaus (ESRI) - What's New in ArcGIS 9.3

Nate Herold (NOAA) - NOAA Costal Change Analysis Program and Data

    June 20, 2008 - 9:00-12:00, Bellingham (Bellingham Tech College, map)

Peter Hodges - BTC's GIS Program

Terri Clark - San Juan County's Routes & Data Integration

Matt Kenny - Extending GIS with Open Source

Jeremiah Podleski - Perteet Mobile GIS & Field Data Collection Projects

    March 21, 2008 - 9:00-12:00, Mt. Vernon (PUD) map

Scott Tyler - Field Data Collection using GeoAge FAST

Mike Price - DS Map Book demonstration

Terri Clark - Implementing ArcGIS Routes as a Data Integration Solution

        postponed...

Jeremiah Podleski - Using DS Map Book (2009 Overlay Assessment, City of Seattle)

        postponed...

Cartographic Round Table LINKS - Open to All - Tips, Tricks, Map Show & Tell

2007 MEETINGS:

    December 14, 2007 - 9:00-12:00, Mt. Vernon (PUD) map

               (NOTE: Due to the holidays the December meeting was on the second Friday)

Josh Greenberg - Using ArcGIS to Plagiarize your way to an Atals: Creating a Topograpic Atlas of Skagit County

Sean Carsom - Using the USNG (United States National Grid)

Patrick Jankanish - Creating Publication-Quality Maps in the King County GIS Center

Cartographic Round Table - Open to All - Tips, Tricks, Map Show & Tell

        postponed until March...

    September 21, 2007 - Padilla Bay (National Estuarine Research Reserve) map

Tarang Khangaonkar - PNNL’s Puget Sound Model of Circulation and Transport, a Land Use Planning Tool and it’s Proposed Application to Skagit and Padilla Bay System

Jeremy Davies - Predicting Salmonid Recolonization Patterns Following the Removal of the Elwha Dams

Stephen Stanley - Developing a Watershed Based Management Plan for Birch Bay

    June 15, 2007 - Stanwood (Tetra Tech) map

Chris Hansen - GIS User Needs Assessments

                    Hansen PowerPoint on GIS Needs Assessment

Geoff Almvig - Skagit County’s Crime Map

Chris Behee - Cooking in the Cartographic Kitchen

    March 16, 2007 - Mt. Vernon (PUD) map

Scott Miles - Computing with Words for GIS: Development of an Earthquake-Induced Landslide Model

Chen Li - ESRI’s ArcGIS Image Server

2006 MEETINGS:

    December 15, 2006 - Mt. Vernon (PUD) (map)

Nicole Barrett & Nicholas Barrett - Osyris LIDAR, Recent Advances in Hardware and Software

Jaden Langford - LIDAR Remote Sensing of Forests: Applications, Issues and Opportunities

Darrell Sofield - Advanced Surface Modeling for Geomorphic Applications: Post Processing of LIDAR Helps to Identify Relative Changes in Topography

    Sept. 15, 2006 - Lummi Nation (Silver Reef Casino)

Allison Bailey & Zach Ferdana - Incorporating Groundfish Survey Data into Offshore Ecoregional Assessment

Matt Paskus - Custom Applications with Google Earth

Steve Walker - Open Source Internet Mapping Applications

Mike Pelela & Peter Gill - Using Pictometry for Shoreline Inventory and Enterprise Imagery

    June 16, 2006 - Mt. Vernon (PUD) (map)

John Joseph & ESRI Staff - What's New in ArcGIS 9.2 

    March 17, 2006 - Padilla Bay (National Estuarine Research Reserve) (map)

Jessica Archer - The Boundaries Project: Mapping Washington’s Shoreline for Public Access and Public Ownership 

Susan Grigsby & Peter Gill - Watershed Analysis: DOE's GIS Analysis for Characterizing Watershed Processes, and the Application of These Methods for Whatcom County's Shoreline Update Process

Greg Hood - A Conceptual Model of Depositional, Rather than Erosional, Tidal Channel Development in the Rapidly Prograding Skagit River Delta CANCELED 

Helen Berry - Mapping and Monitoring Kelp in Washington State 

2005 MEETINGS:

    December 16, 2005 - Mt Vernon (PUD) (map)

Tyson Waldo - SSHIAP & ArcHydro: Integrating information for Puget Sound Salmon Recovery

Victor Johnson - Orthorectification of Air Photos with OrthoRec and Image Analysis

Kate Newell & Chris Behee - Modeling the Urban Environment using ArcScene and Sketch-Up

    September 16, 2005 - Sedro Woolley (North Cascades National Park Office)

Mike Leech - Comparison of Pixel-Based and Object-Oriented Approaches to Vegetation Mapping in Hawaii Using High Resolution IKONOS Imagery

Jeremy Davies -  GIS Methods for Incorporating Catastrophic Risk Assessments in Chinook Recovery Planning

    June 24, 2005 - Padilla Bay (National Estuarine Research Reserve) (map)

Allison Bailey - Examples of Marine GIS Projects on the West Coast: Comparing Regional to Coastwide Scales.

Jessemine Fung - Nearshore Analysis aAround the Sound.

Ross Freeman - Using 3D GIS Visualization to Portray Dam Removal in WA

    March 18, 2005 - Bellingham (map)

Don Burdick – Enterprise GIS at the City.

City of Bellingham Public Works GIS Staff – CityIQ: Demo of the City’s MapObjects customer service interface

Chris Behee – Using Color-Infrared Imagery for Impervious Surface Analysis

Ann Stark – An Overview of the Recently Completed Address-Mapping Project

2004 MEETINGS:

    December 17, 2004 - Mt. Vernon

Tim Hyatt - Hydraulic Modeling of Nooksack Channels Using TINs to Determine Old Meanders and Back Channels

Matt Nash - The use of LIDAR for Island County Drainage Delineation and Public Works Applications

Chris Behee & Roland Behee - Terrain Analysis of Extra-Terrestrial Objects Using PIGWAD & GRASS for the Topography of Mars

    September 17, 2004 - Everett Community Transit

Roland Behee -  Census Transportation Planning Package: 

Roland Behee - Update on the State Transportation Framework Project

John Joseph & Jeff Barrette -  An In-depth Look at Geoprocessing.

    June 18, 2004 - Mount Vernon

    March 19, 2004 - Mount Vernon (Skagit County)

2003 MEETINGS:

    December 12, 2003 - Padilla Bay (National Estuarine Research Reserve) (map)

Chris Behee - The use of Orthorec for In-house Orthorectification

Richard Hicks - Estuary or Watershed, Which is Most Important to Salmon?

Nathan Evans - Use of Remotely Sensed Data to Track Water Masses Associated with Harmful Algal Blooms Along the Washington Coast

Bert Tatham - High-Resolution Satellite Imagery and Urban Applications: Impervious Surface and Urban Greenspace Mapping

    September 26, 2003 - Stanwood (TerraLogic GIS)

    June 20, 2003 -  Everett (Everett Station, Snohomish County)

Eiko Toguchi & Adam Urbaniak - Tulalip Technology Leap Program

Todd Zackey - Tulalip Shoreline Mapping and Habitat Assesment

Brent Linder - City of Everett, ArcSDE, Geodatabase, Daily Maintenance

Ed Faribanks & Rob Simmonds - Snohomish Co.'s Critical Areas Map Viewer

    March 21, 2003 - Sedro Woolley

2002 MEETINGS:

    December 13, 2002 - Everett Community Transit

Ed Quarles - HAZUS for ArcView

Ed Faribanks - Snohomish Co.'s Land Use Allocation Model (LUFAM)

Roland Behee - Geographic Analysis of a Joint-Agency Transit Survey

    September 20, 2002 - Lummi Nation (NW Indian College)

Willy Lynch - A brief summary of the Lummi Nation GIS

Michael Cochrane - North Puget Sound Ecological Characterization

Mike Medler - Modeling of Fire Potential Using GIS and Remote Sensing

Jaime Crawford - Topology in the Geodatabase in ArcGIS 8.3 

     June 21, 2002 -

    March 15, 2002 - Sedro Woolley

Karen Van Parys - Introduction to the Skagit System Cooperative

Devin Smith - Using a routed hydro layer to analyze riparian forest conditions

W. Gregory Hood - Analysis of Direct and Indirect Impacts of Dikes on Estuarine Habitat

David A. Brown - Comparing Puget Sound Lidar Consortium (PSLC) data with Photogrammetric Mapping