GISMO - Geographic Information Systems and Mapping

NYCArc GIS User Symposium - June 18 at John Jay College

The NYCArc User Group is hosting a seminar on Friday 18 June. The full day session will take place at John Jay College - 899 Tenth Ave @ 59th Street.

Doors open at 8:00 am. The symposium will run until approximately 4:30pm. Please note that seats are on a first come first serve basis: you must confirm with Steve via email to nycarcuser@gmail.com


8:30AM John Jay College Welcome
Jack Dangermond, President, ESRI— Welcome Video

9:00AM Keynote Address
Inside Out: Analyzing Your Facility in its Geospatial Context
Michael Parkin, Facilities Information Systems Manager
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

10:00AM Break

10:15AM Certificate of Appreciation Presented to GISMO,
in honor of the group's 20 year anniversary

10:30AM Emergency Management: Preparing for Rapid Map Production
Lynn Seirup, Project Manager
Public Safety GIS Data Development Center
NYC Office of Emergency Management

11:00AM Geographic Information Support to United Nations Peace Operations -
Alice Chow, Chief
Geographics Operations Unit
United Nations Cartographic Section

11:30AM Young Street Tree Mortality Study
Jessie Braden, GIS Manager, Central Forestry & Horticulture
NYC Department of Parks and Recreation

12:00PM Vendor Sponsored Lunch & Technical Presentations

1:00PM Providing GIS Support When Getting to the Office is Not An Option:
EPA Region 2 Continuity of Operations (COOP)
Harvey Simon, GIS Coordinator
US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2

1:30PM Bad Air Day: Using GIS in the New York City Community Air Survey
Grant Pezeshki, Geographer
Bureau of Environmental Surveillance and Policy
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

2:00PM Technical Presentation

2:20PM GIS examples from the DEP Bureau of Environmental Planning and Analysis
Kaled Alamarie, Senior Hydrogeologist
Ecological Services/Bureau of Environmental Planning and Analysis
*with* Vlada Kenniff, Director, Planning and Water Demand Projections
GIS/Bureau of Environmental Planning and Analysis
NYC Department of Environmental Protection

2:50PM Break

3:10PM Technical Presentation

3:30PM CUNY's Online Maps: Integrating Open Source and ESRI Map Visualization
Tools - Steven Romalewski, Director - CUNY Mapping Service
Center for Urban Research/CUNY *with*
David Burgoon, Application Architect, Center for Urban Research/CUNY

4:00PM Underneath the Hot Spot: What is Causing All That Crime?
Chris Herrmann, Adjunct Professor - John Jay College/CUNY

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GISMO Meeting - Wednesday 30 June (3-5pm)

GISMO is Back! Come Join Us for a Re-launch Meeting on Wednesday 6/30 from
3-5pm at the Fund for the City of NY
http://www.fcny.org/fcny/about/contact/

Elisabetta (Lis) DeGironimo, GISP & Bruce Oswald are traveling downstate to
present the benefits of formal association between GISMO & the NYS GIS
Association http://nysgis.org.

Steve Romalewski will provide an update on the CUNY Mapping Service
http://www.urbanresearch.org/about/cur-components/cuny-mapping-service

Pay on your own social to follow: 5:30pm at Antarctica Bar
http://www.antarcticabar.com/Directions.html

GISMO was founded in 1990 and was, in its' heyday, the New York Metropolitan
Area's largest geographic information systems (GIS) users' group, with over 700
members from city, state and federal agencies, non-profit organizations and the
private sector.

GISMO continues to be a valued forum for sharing information on
well-established and emerging geospatial technologies along with news from GIS
publications, meetings, vendors as well as business, internship and software
training opportunities.

GISMO members range from students to savvy practitioners in & out of
government: all cite significant benefits over the years from the networking
promoted both virtually and in-person.

GISMO meetings will once again be scheduled bi-monthly beginning in July 2010.
We will generally gather at the Fund for the City of New York, with other venues
adopted depending on group size & nature of presentation(s) – "unconferences"
anyone?

GISMO programs typically run two-hours. Future schedules may vary between late
afternoon or early evening to accommodate various sectors of the local
geospatial community.

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