State Geography Awareness Week (Nov 15-19)

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Joint Agency GIS Week is a forum for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) professionals to share GIS solutions that are transforming data management, customer service, decision making, and much more!

2021 continues to shine a spotlight on the value of GIS as we have more and more requests for geographic data needed for decision making and integrating into existing IT systems. Governor Inslee issued a Proclamation recognizing State Geography Awareness Week (Nov 15-19) and the important work we do in our communities and for our state. View a copy of the proclamation here.

Again this year, the event will be completely virtual! The full agenda with presentation abstracts will be included below along with details for how to join using Zoom Events webinar. We even have some GeoTrivia events to test your geographic skills! A special thanks to our GIS Week organizing team, State CIO Bill Kehoe, all our presenters, moderators, tech support and to you for joining us for GIS Week 2021!

GIS Week Organizing Team: Jim Jarvis, DFW; Dan Miller, MIL/911; Greg Tudor, RCO; Elizabeth Lanzer and Julie Jackson, WSDOT; Josh Greenberg, ECY; Bruce Dahlman, Kirk Davis and Joanne Markert, WATech/OCIO

Agenda

Tuesday, November 16

  • 10:00 – 10:10 Welcome & Announcement of Government Helping Government GIS Award – Joanne Markert, State GIS Coordinator
  • 10:10 – 10:45 State Agency Roll Call
  • 10:45 – 11:30 State of the State GIS (Joanne Markert – WaTech/Office of the CIO)
  • 11:30 – 12:00 Building a Spatial Community to Collectively Monitor Ecosystem Health (Jen Burke & Jenna Judge – Puget Sound Partnership; Ken Pierce – WA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife)
  • 12:00 – 1:10 Break
  • 1:10 – 1:30 GeoTrivia
  • 1:30 – 2:30 National Data Act, National Initiatives and WA (Cy Smith – National States Geographic Information Council)
  • 2:30 – 2:45 Wildlife Survey Data Collection and Management (Bill Simper – WA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife)
  • 2:45 – 3:00 Publishing ArcGIS Pro Custom Add-Ins to the Enterprise (Rich Daniels – WA Dept. of Transportation)
  • 3:00 – 3:30 ArcGIS Pro Tips & Tricks (Randy Bonds – City of Yakima)
  • 3:30 – 4:00 ArcGIS JavaScript and TypeScript: An Introduction for the GIS Layperson (David Howes)

Wednesday, November 17

  • 10:00 – 10:15 Opening Remarks – Bill Kehoe State CIO and Director of WaTech
  • 10:15 – 10:45 The UW ITS4US Project, Delivering OpenSidewalks Data and Tools (Mark Hallenbeck – University of Washington)
  • 10:45 – 11:15 How Do I Share This GIS Data?! An Update on the Geoportal 2.0 Project (Kirk Davis, WaTech/Office of the CIO)
  • 11:15 – 11:45 Mobile Data Collection for WDFW Fish Passage Inventory (Rachel Bouchillon & Ryan Gatchell – WA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife)
  • 11:45- 12:00 GeoTrivia
  • 12:00 – 1:30 Break
  • 1:30 – 2:00 Supporting Municipal GIS With a Drone Program (Gary Montgomery – City of Lacey)
  • 2:00 – 2:30 Wildlife Telemetry Data System (Paul Whelan – WA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife)
  • 2:30 – 3:00 Washington State Department of Commerce: 2021 Mapping Tools (Jason Henderson & Deanah Watson – WA Dept. of Commerce)
  • 3:00 – 3:30 Project Management 101: Essentials for GIS Experts  (Puneet Agrawal & Stacy Steck WaTech/Office of the CIO)

Thursday, November 18

  • 10:00 – 10:30 Washington State National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) Looking Forward (Josh Greenberg & Christina Kellum – WA Dept. of Ecology)
  • 10:30 – 11:00 Faking GIS Indoors Because It’s Too Expensive Otherwise (Clint Lusk & Dustin Wiersma – WA Dept. of Military)
  • 11:00 – 12:00 GIS: A Tacoma Pierce County Health Department’s COVID Response Tool (Maria Sevier & Melissa Hayashida – Tacoma Pierce County Health Dept.)
  • 12:00 – 1:10 Break
  • 1:10 – 1:30 GeoTrivia, Diabolical Edition
  • 1:30 – 2:30 Census (Deirdre Dalpiaz Bishop, U.S. Census Bureau)
  • 2:30 – 3:00 Developing a Bike Trails Inventory for WSDOT (Anastasiya Grecu & Naomi Jurado – Dept. of Transportation)
  • 3:00 – 3:30 Management of Roadside Safety Assets (Paul Abbot – WA Dept. of Transportation)
  • 3:30 – 4:00 Role of GIS Technology in WA’s Redistricting Processes (Justin Bennett and Lisa McLean – WA State Redistricting Commission)