NW Washington GIS Users Group Meeting - March 15th, 2002  (9 to noon)

              Conference Room – DNR Northwest Region Office, Sedro-Woolley

                         Hosted by the Skagit System Cooperative

   9:00 - 10:00   Participants Roundtable

                   An opportunity to introduce yourself and provide some information

                   on your current activities, concerns and/or needs

  10:00 - 10:10   Break Time

                   Have a cup of coffee, a cookie, and network with your neighbor

  10:10 – 10:15   Karen Van Parys

                  Introduction to the Skagit System Cooperative

  10:15 – 10:45   Devin Smith, Restoration Ecologist, Skagit System Cooperative

                  Using a routed hydro layer to analyze riparian forest conditions.

         A routed hydrography coverage was used to store information from field-based inventories of

         riparian forests adjacent to salmon streams. This information can be used to quantify riparian

         conditions, identify habitat restoration projects, and monitor conditions as they change over

         time.

  10:45 – 11:15    W. Gregory Hood, PhD--Restoration Ecologist, SSC

                   Analysis of Direct and Indirect Impacts of Dikes on Estuarine Habitat.

         GIS was used to analyze historic photos and compare the change in estuarine marsh and tidal

         channel area from 1956 to 2000 in the Wiley Slough area (South Fork Delta of the Skagit River).  

  11:15 – 11:50  David A. Brown, Certified Photogrammetrist, Walker and Associates

                 Comparing Puget Sound Lidar Consortium (PSLC) data with photogrammetric mapping   

  11:50 – 12:00  Gene Hoerauf - Report on the Washington Geographic Information Council and a request

                    for volunteer(s) to be responsible for the June meeting presentations.

N.B.  These meeting notices are sent by e-mail and snail mail.  If you wish to change how you get yours, or to add or change an address, please send a note to geneh@cc.wwu.edu  or  to  Gene Hoerauf, Huxley/Geography, MS 9085, WWU, Bellingham, WA  98225