CARTOGRAPHY SESSION & MAP GALLERY

Chris Behee (City of Bellingham) - Mapping Bicycle Network Characteristics

Jeremy Davies (Pew Environmental Group) - Interactive Maps: Another Arrow to add to your Cartographic Quiver

Kate Newell (City of Bellingham) - Mapping for the Downtown Community Reports

         PLUS - Map Gallery - Everyone encouraged to bring maps (old, new, good, draft, etc.)

    June 15, 2012 - 9:00-12:00, Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve map

Gary Greene (Marine Geologist) - The Deep Hidden Secrets of a Forage Fish Revealed Through GIS - The Sub-Tidal Habitat of Pacific Sand Lance

    March 16, 2012 - MEETING CANCELED

         (everyone encouraged to attend the WaURISA Making Beautiful Maps workshop instead)

2011 MEETINGS:

    Dec. 9, 2011 - 9:00-12:00, Skagit Co. PUD, Mt. Vernon map NOTE: The December meeting is on the 2nd Friday of the month (not the 3rd)

TJ Abernhaus (ESRI) - ESRI's Community Map Program

Jeremy Davies (Pew Trust Environmental Group) - Engaging the Public in Research and Conservation using Interactive Maps

    Sept. 16, 2011 - 9:00-12:00, Snohomish County, Everett (Robert J Drewel Building) map (building "A")

Ed Fairbanks (Snohomish County) - Collaboration at Snohomish County

Katy Taylor, Darby Veeck, Liz O'Dea & Tammy Pelletier (Wa. Dept. of Ecology) - The Washington Coastal Atlas

Rick Jordan (Wa. Dept. of Ecology) - National Hydrographic Dataset

Suzanne Shull (Padilla Bay Reserve) & Ann Stark (City of Bellingham) - Bringing Local Marine Resource Committee GIS Data to the Public via a Web Access Portal

    June 17, 2011 - 9:00-12:00, Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve map

Alex Wallace & Suzanne Tomlinson (University of Washington) - Mapping Restoration in the Puget sound

Jennifer Minich & Jessica Taylor (Green River) - Seahurst Park Project: Designing a Geodatabase for Data Collection, Monitoring and Analysis

Aaron Racicot (Z-Pulley Inc) - Disaster Response in the Gulf of Mexico - ERMA

    March 18, 2011 - 9:00-12:00, City of Bellingham (Fireplace Room, 625 Halleck St.) map

Chris Behee (City of Bellingham) - Using GIS and Google Sketch-Up to produce quick architectual-style perspective sketches

Chris Gardner (Pacific Alliance Technologies) - iVault: A self service web mapping application based on ArcGIS Server 10 and Silverlight

Matt Stevenson (CORE GIS) - Mapping Floods, Damage, Development, and Habitat in Western Washington for
the National Wildlife Federation

Brian Small & Ann Stark (City of Bellingham) - Automating those daily tasks with Python: tips and ricks for behind the scenes productivity

2010 MEETINGS:

    December 17, 2010 - Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve map

Mike Price (Entrada / San Juan) - Glenosa Revisited - Evacuation Modeling with ArcGIS Network Analyst

Jason Taylor (Samish Nation) - Invasive Knotweed Survey, Control, and Monitoring Using Python, Network Analyst
and Trimble Technologies

Matt Paskus (WWU) - Understanding the Dynamic Effects of Flight Paths on Land Use and
Property Values in Whatcom County

Josh Greenberg (Skagit County) - Predicting the Future: An Introduction to the Envision Skagit 2060 Project

    September 17, 2010 - 9:00-12:00, Mt. Vernon (Tetra Tech) map

         Python

Alison Bailey (Sound GIS) - Python and Statistics and ArcMap - Oh My! Automating Data Analysis

Gerry Gabrisch (Lummi Nation) - Exporting GPS Locations and Attributes from a GPS Enabled Smart Phone to an ESRI Shapefile

Emilio Mayorga (Univ. of Washington) - Python Glue Holding Pacific NW Real-Time Marine Data Together in the NANOOS Visualization System

Steve Walker (Middle Fork GIS) - Python-Based, Spatially-Enabled Website Deployment Using Django

                                           - Turning your Python scripts into GUI EXEs using WxPythonand PyInstaller

    June 18, 2010 - 9:00-12:00, Mt. Vernon (PUD) map  -     Call for Presenters

         CARTOGRAPHY SESSION & MAP GALLERY

Gerry Gabrisch (Lummi Nation) - Creating 3D Anaglyph Maps

Victor High (King County) - 3D Map of San Juan Islands and the Latest King County Bike Map

Chris Behee (City of Bellingham) - Cartographic Techniques for Illustrating a Geo-Temporal Population Model

Eliana Macdonald (Ecotrust Canada) - Creating Maps for Living Proof, by Terry Tobias

Jeremy Davies (NOAA) - Using Illustrator to Make Better Maps - Simple Tweaks and Tips

Matt Kenny (Ridolfi) - The State of Open-Source Cartography Tools

         Cartographic Map Gallery - Everyone is encouraged to bring maps to post and share

    March 19, 2010 - Padilla Bay (National Estuarine Research Reserve) map

Craig Dolphin (Lummi Nation) - Large-Scale Survey of the Natural Resources of the Lummi Reservation Tidelands

Gi-Choul Ahn (Snohomish County) - Land Cover Mapping and Change Detection for Snohomish County Critical Area Monitoring

Michael Hannam (Univ. of Washington) - The Influence of Multiple Scales of Topography on the Distribution and Interaction of a Native and an Introduced Seagrass in the Puget Sound

2009 MEETINGS:

    December 18, 2009 - Padilla Bay (National Estuarine Research Reserve) map

Matt Kenny (Ridolfi) - Flex API for ArcGIS Server

Ed Whitford (TetraTech) - Hazus

Suzanne Shull (Padilla Bay NERR), Nearly 20 Years of Eelgrass Monitoring in Padilla Bay

    September 18, 2009 - 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 - Mt. Vernon (PUD) map

CARTOGRAPHY SESSION & MAP GALLERY

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Mt. Vernon (PUD) map

CARTOGRAPHY SESSION & MAP GALLERY

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 - 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 Atlas: Creating a Topographic 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 Around 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 Assessment

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

Ed Fairbanks & 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 Fairbanks - 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