Welcome to GIS-Pro 2024 and our super-sized opening session!
Hear from conference and URISA leadership about the not-to-miss highlights of the coming days.
Take every opportunity to celebrate the community, make connections, and share your thoughts and ideas with your fellow attendees. Don't pass up the chance to expand your professional support system this week!
Climate Resilience & GIS
Our opening keynote will focus on something we are all concerned with, particularly in coastal areas like Portland, Maine: Climate Change and Community Resilience. This session will be a discussion of the uses of GIS as a tool in Climate Resilience and Adaptation activities. The panelists represent a variety of organizations all working to define, prepare, and assist communities in their work to understand the issues facing them and to develop policies, actions, and responses to the changes ahead. GIS has become an important tool to bring together the disparate data, policies, agencies, and communities involved in these processes. The panel will discuss their work and thoughts on how GIS can and will be used as we move forward.
Eileen Johnson, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Tora Johnson, Co-Director, Sustainable Prosperity Initiative, Sunrise Economic Council, Machias, ME
David Reidmiller, Director, Climate Center, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, ME
Emily Farr, Senior Fisheries Program Manager, Manomet Conservation Sciences, Brunswick, Maine
Why You Should Care About the NSDI
We'll follow that with an important discussion about the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI), how local government can participate in the NSDI and its role in supporting local government. Emphasizing the critical importance of local data, the panel will discuss the role of local data to the NSDI, collaborative strategies for advancing the NSDI, the role of standards, and the way ahead for local governments and the NSDI.
Broad stakeholder involvement is crucial for defining roles, responsibilities, authoritative data content, and governance structures. Attendees will be challenged to actively engage and contribute to the conversation furthering the development and implementation of the NSDI. Local Governments can aid FGDC in determining the specific themes where local governments are the primary data developers and discuss how they interact with their state data stewards. By sharing insights, best practices, and opportunities for participation, the panel aims to advance a collaborative approach to implementing the NSDI that enhances urban planning, disaster response, resource management, and public services. Join us to play a part in shaping a more connected and data-driven future for the Nation.
Josh Delmonico, Executive Director, Federal Geographic Data Committee, Reston, Virginia
Lynn Dupont, Lynn Dupont, GISP, ASLA, GIS Manager/Principal Planner, New Orleans Regional Planning Commission, New Orleans, Louisiana
Curtis Pulford, Manager - Enterprise Geographic Information System, City of Phoenix, Arizona
