Event Archive

Oct - Mappy Hour: Missing Mapathon event, with Chaelese Kailewa.

Oct - Speaker Series - Portland Mural Map, with the PCC GIS Club.

Spring - Speaker Series - Three-part series discussing Critical GIS and Community GIS, with David Banis and Randy Morris.

June 3 - 2021 Spring Career Panel - Panel of local GIS professionals discuss their work and offer advice for students on job search techniques, interviewing, and more - alongside PSU Career Counselor Mary Vance. Speakers: Theresa Burcsu (Freshwater Trust), Taylor Allen (Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians), Rachel Wheat (Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife), Frank Lahm (Bureau of Land Management), and Mary Vance (PSU Career Services).

Nov - Back to School Night: Pizza, Professionals and, Powerpoint. A panel of students who had internships/professional experience shared their experiences and offered advice. Also, upcoming events from both clubs were advertised and the clubs introduced themselves.

Feb - Annual Map Sale. Put on by PSU GIS club and the PSU geography dept. 

Feb - PCC/PSU Mappy Hour. Mixer between both clubs where folks got to know each other in a fun, unstructured environment.

March - 2020 Cartography Symposium. The 5th biannual cartography symposium. A free, day long event that included informative presentations from important cartographers, a map gallery, and more!

May - Career Panel/State of the Industry Panel. Panel of local GIS professionals discuss how their work has changed in the time of COVID and share tips for students looking for work.

Oct - Back to School Night with ASPRS GIS Club. Student presentations on summer internships and jobs, upcoming events for the year, and social. "Bad Map Critique."

Nov - GIS Day: Missing Maps Mapathon; OR-URISA 7th Annual GIS Day Event at Ecotrust

Nov - Map Sale

Jan - ArcPro Workshop with Randy Morris

Feb - General Meeting with special discussion topic: "Grad School Mysteries."

Feb - Talk on Applied Critical GIS with Tim Hitchins and Sachi Arakawa of the Mapping Action Collective

Feb - PDX GIS Social - Mixer with the PSU and PCC GIS Clubs at Lucky Lab on Hawthorne

Feb - DOGAMI Student Visit & ASPRS Annual Dinner at McMenamins Broadway Pub. Every February, members get together for dinner and learn about the groups past years accomplishments and plans for the next year. Professional members and  student members from PSU, PCC, OSU, and U of O were among those in attendance. This year, the ASPRS's Columbia River Region and the Puget Sound Region announced they are merging to become the ASPRS Cascadia Region.

Mar - Portland GIS Winter Social with OR-URISA Emerging Professionals and PSU ASPRS GIS Club

Apr - 27th Annual GIS In Action Conference at PSU 

May - Missing Maps Map-a-Thon

May - Dymaptic Presentation: A.I. for Safer Cycling Routes

May - Seminar on Modern GIS with Esri Solution Engineer Canserina Kurnia

May - Annual GIS Career Panel. Panelists: Kate Clark - XPO Logistics; Eric Stipe - NW Natural; Richard Crucchiola - Washington County; Molly Vogt - Metro; Tyler Vick - Flo Analytics; and Louise Paradis - PSU Career Services.

Oct - Back to School Night with ASPRS GIS Club. Student Speaker panel on summer internships and jobs, upcoming events for the year, and social. Student Speakers: Katelyn Michelson, John Rogers, Kelsey Ramsey, Adele Rife, and Alec Trusty.

Oct - ASPRS Columbia River Region Tech Exchange

Nov - Map Sale

Nov - GIS Day: Missing Maps Mapathon and 6th Annual GIS Day Event.

Nov - Presentation by James Manzione. Topic: Basic Python Skills

Jan - Student Map Critique

Feb - Presentation by Bryan Kilburn. Topic: Using sUAS for a tool

Mar - 2018 Portland Cartography Symposium. Keynote Speaker: Aaron Draplin. Presenters: Nik Wise, Tim Hitchins, Dan Coe, Paul Fyfield, Gabriel Rousseau, Mattye Walsworth, Joseph Bard, Alexa Todd, Jon Franczyk, Kate Leroux, Amy Lobben, Joanna Merson, Jim Thatcher, Matthew Hampton, Chris Wayne, Molly Vogt, and Rafa Gutierrez.

Apr - GIS In Action - Portland State University - The twenty-sixth annual GIS In Action Conference, hosted by the Columbia River Region of the ASPRS and the Oregon-Southwest Washington Chapter of URISA. 

May - Missing Maps Mapathon

Jun - Career Panel: A selected group of local GIS professionals shared their tips on resumes, interviews, and how GIS students can prepare to land their dream jobs after graduation. Panel members: Mary Vance (PSU Career Guidance Specialist); Maria Schlangen (City of Hillsboro GIS Manager); Jason Underwood (City of Portland Maps/Records Supervisor); Heather Borunda-Ferguson (Quantum Spatial).

2016/2017

Oct - Back to school with the GIS Club. Discussions of summer GIS projects, social, and happy hour. 

Nov - Speaker Series: Jackson Voelkel, Sustaining Urban Places Research Lab, Portland State University - Topic: R for Spatial Analysis

Feb - Student Map Critique. A fun and casual critique of our peers posters, web maps, story maps, or any type of mapping data graphics. 

Feb - Speaker Series: Joe Gordon, Portland Metro and PCC - Topic: Fusion of Multispectral Imagery and LiDAR for Classification of Oregon White Oak

Apr - GIS In Action - Portland State University - The twenty-fifth annual GIS In Action Conference, hosted by the Columbia RIver Region of the ASPRS and the Oregon-Southwest Washington Chapter of URISA. 

May - Resistance GIS - RGIS was a first of its kind mini-conference that took place at Portland State University on May 20th, 2017. The event was well attended and was a great success. What exactly is RGIS? Our conference aimed to build a new critically informed framework for applicaitons of GIS by providing a space for GIS experts and non-experts to exchange radical ideas that challenge the dominant paradigm of GIS as neutral tool. Students, academics, organizers, professionals and the general public are welcome to join, learn and share tips, skills and visions for how geospation technologies, open data and data visualization can empower communities and support civil resistance struggles and social movements. From Anti-Eviction mapping to international water securty, speakers such as Brittany Ricker, Jim Thatcher, Veronica Velez, Jennifer Veilleux and Erin McElroy Brought their experiences and knowledge to share with all. Check out our website: https://resistancegis.wordpress.com/

2015/2016

Oct - Corey Plank, Bureau of Land Management. Topic: Bureau of Land Management's use of LiDAR & drones for remote sensing applications

Nov - 2015 Portland Cartography Symposium

Nov - 4th Annual GIS Day Event

January - Mathew Lippincott, of Public Lab. Topic:  Aerial Photography in the Age of Drones  Missed the presentation?  Watch it here. 

January - Mathew Lippincott, of Public Lab. Weekend Workshop:  Low Altitude Aerial Photography Workshop. See more work of the public Lab community Here; https://publiclab.org/tag/pole-mapping

May - Career Panel: 

- Jamie Ludwig, Director of Operations at Quantum Spatial

- Anne Hillyer, Cartographer at Bonneville Power Administration

- Josh Ahmann, Planner / GIS Analyst at Paramatrix

- Jeff Nighbert, Senior Technical Specialist at Bureau of Land Management

- Tyler Vick, Principal at FLO Analytics

- Mary Vance, Career Counselor at PSU Advising & Career Service

2014/2015

Oct - Joe Hayes, GIS technician, Washington County. Topic: One List to Rule Them All. John Sherrard, ESRI. Topic:Deploying GIS Technology in an Enterprise Environment

Nov - 3rd Annual GIS Day Event

Nov - Ian Madin, DOGAMI. Topic: LiDAR in Oregon: Beyond the Bare Earth.

Jan - Darrell Fuhriman. Topic: Open Source GIS.

Feb - Columbia River Region of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Annual Dinner.

Feb - Tim McCarthy, Peace Corp. Topic: GIS, Disaster Planning, Dengue y Merengue.

May - CAREER PANEL

Sim Ogle, Port of Portland

Jimmy Kagan, INR & ORBC

Patrick Burns, Quantum Spatial

Greg Flores, Portland State

2013/2014

Oct - Greg Townley, Professor, Portland State University Department of Psychology. Topic: GIS Applications in Psychology

Nov - Portland Cartography Symposium 2013

• Stuart Allan, Allan Cartography, Keynote Address. Topic: Maps, not data dumps: Making maps that people will be willing to look at long enough to learn something

• Justin Miller, MapBox. Topic: Creating Custom Maps With TileMill and CartoCSS

• Ryan Sullivan, Paste in Place. Topic: Recent Projects

• Matthew Hampton, Metro. Topic: Designing a Regional Multi-scale Digital Map

• Ben Sainsbury, Metro. Topic: Keeping up with the Times: Developing a Regional Government API

• Dr. Aileen Buckley, ESRI. Topic: It’s About Time: GIS Brings Spatio-temporal Data to Life

• Bernhard Jenny and Bojan Šavrič. Topic: Adaptive Composite Map Projections

• Nick Arnold, Jane Darbyshire, Lara Heitmeyer, Brooke Marston, Charles Preppernau, Steven Schuetz, and Bernhard Jenny, Oregon State University. Topic: Atlas of the Columbia River Basin — Interactive Atlases for iPads

• David Banis, Corinna Kimball-Brown, Kirk McEwen, Jon Franczyk, and Daniel Coe, Portland State University. Topic: Cartographic Anarchy: Creating a Cultural Atlas of Portland

Nov - 2nd Annual GIS Day Event

Jan - Angie Diefenbach, USGS Volcano Disaster Assistance Program. Topic: Oblique photogrammetry as a tool for quantifying volcanic eruption volumes in Ecuador

Feb - Nate Wood, USGS. Topic: Site Suitability for Vertical Evacuation Structures on the Pacific Northwest Coast

Mar - Erin Stockenberg, US Fish and Wildlife. Topic: Modeling Inundation Levels at Wapato Lake Using High-resolution LiDAR

May - Steve Schilling, USGS. Topic: Laharz Software Helps Users Map Lahar Hazard Zones

May - CAREER PANEL

Chris Aldridge, Geospatial Manager at David Evans and Associates, ASPRS CRR President

Steven Sobieszczyk, Hydrologist at USGS

Annie Trambley, Remote Sensing/Water Quality Analyst at QSI

Daron McCaulley, Remote Sensing/GIS Specialist at QSI

Mary Vance, Career Counselor, PSU Advising and Career Services

Tyler Vick, Principal at FLO Analytics and former ASPRS student president

2012/2013

Oct - David DiBiase, ESRI Director of Education for Industry Solutions. Topic: Stand and Be Counted: seven ways to strengthen the GIS profession

Nov - Chris Aldridge, Geospatial Manager, Surveying & Geomatics COE. Topic: GeoAutomation; an imagery based mobile mapping system

Feb - Matthew Holdgate, M.S. Candidate, PSU Biology Department. Topic: Room to roam: using GPS to improve the welfare of zoo elephants

Mar - Josh Faber-Hammond, Adjunct Research Assistant, PSU Biology Department. Topic: Developing a Breeding Habitat Suitability Model for Northern Red-legged Frog in the Portland Metro Region

Apr - Dr. Wen Lin, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University. Topic: Investigating social constructions of geospatial technologies: Politics of everyday mapping and spatial narratives in China.

Apr - Mike Renslow, Editor-in-Chief and contributing author. Topic: The ASPRS Airborne Topographic LiDAR Manual: The latest developments, best practices, and application of LiDAR technology

May – CAREER PANEL

Molly Vogt and Paul Couey, Metro

Rachel Smith, DOGAMI

Erik Brewster, Kapala IT

Gus Monteverde, The Freshwater Trust

2011/2012

Oct - Janne Boone-Heinonen, OHSU and UNC Chapel Hill. Topic: Cardia Study, Using GIS to see the relationships between diet quality and fast-food availability

Nov - Greg Stewart, Portland Police Bureau. Topic: Mapping and crime in Portland, Oregon: Using GIS to help reduce crime, the fear of crime and improve neighborhood livability

Nov – CARTOGRAPHY SYMPOSIUM

David Imus (keynote speaker)

Analisa Fenix (Ecotrust)

Liz Cruz (US Fish and Wildlife)

Daniel Coe (DOGAMI)

Rafa Gutierrez (Grafa Geographic Design)

John Sharrard (ESRI)

Erin Aigner (City of Gresham/NY Times)

Paul Fyfield (BLM)

Matthew Hampton (Metro)

Jan - Justin Healy, Real Urban Geographics. Topic: Using GIS for wind farm site analysis and methodology

Feb - Erik Strandhagen, Integral Consulting. Topic: Applying GIS to environmental analysis

Mar - Byron Clayton, BLM. Topic: Migrating land status records to a spatial environment

Apr - Jimmy Kagan, Institute of Natural Resources. Topic: GIS at the Institute for Natural Resources

2010/2011

Nov – Chris Aldridge, Continental Mapping Consultants Inc. Topic: Photogrammetry 101

Nov - Tom Perkins, National Water and Climate Center. Topic: GIS: Bridging the gap between research and technology

Mar - Jacob Macdonald, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. Topic: Applying digital terrain modeling to water resource engineering

Apr – Matthew Hampton, GIS Specialist with Metro. Topic: Creativity in mapmaking

Apr – Chris Aldridge, ASPRS. Topic: Primer on the ASPRS, “We are the ASPRS”

May – CAREER PANEL

Steve Lennartz, Sanborn

Orrin Frederick, BLM

Mark Bosworth, Metro

2009/2010

Nov - Topic: GIS applications, cow manure, stream quality, and salmon death

Nov – Richard Lycan, Population Research Center. Topic: Older moms deliver: How increased births to older moms impacts enrollments at Portland public schools

Jan – Jasna Kolasinac, European Environmental Agency and the University of Belgrade. Topic: Methodology for land cover interpretation in Serbia

Feb – Ralph Kiefer, University of Wisconsin. Topic: Remote sensing and GIS: Then and now

Apr – David Percy, PSU. Topic: Open source GIS

May - Jacob MacDonald, US Army Corps of Engineers. Topic: Lidar, and water resource engineering applications.

May - Daniel Wise, USGS Hydrologist. Topic: Spatial modeling of surface water nutrients in the Pacific NW.

May – CAREER PANEL

John Chase, USDA, Forest Service

Terrence Conlon, USGS, Oregon Water Science Center

Baron Howe, L-3 STRATIS

Mike Mertens, Ecotrust

Erik Strandhagen, Integral Consulting

2008/2009

Nov – Whityn Owen,USDA NRCS. Topic: Using DEM surface derivatives for soil data analysis

Nov – Sheri Schneider, USGS. Topic: Exploring GIS data at the US Geological Survey in Oregon

Feb – Kevin Martin, City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. Topic: Applications of LiDAR in planning Portland’s future

Feb – Mike Boeder, Watershed Sciences. Topic: LiDAR processing, applications, and future directions

Mar – Erik Strandhagen, Integral Consulting. Topic: 3D subsurface geostatistical analysis

Apr – Steven Lennartz, Sanborn. Topic: A geographic perspective of New Zealand

May – Ken Salsman, Aptina, Inc. Topic: Remote sensing from humble past to mighty future: The intersection of geography and physics

May – CAREER PANEL

Celia Cornett, Portland Water Bureau

David Drescher, US Fish and Wildlife Service

Rafael Gutierrez, SWCA Environmental Consultants

Tim Nortz, Watershed Sciences

Molly Vogt, City of Gresham

2007/2008

Oct – Molly Vogt, City of Gresham. Topic: The Shady Side of GIS: Planning Stream Revegetation in Gresham to Enhance Water Quality

Nov – Steph Gaspers, ASPRS Research Scholarship Recipient. Topic: Thematic Mapping for Middle-School Students: Are We Asking the Right Questions?

Feb – Cy Smith, Statewide GIS Coordinator. Topic: The Oregon Imagery Explorer Project

Apr – Blair Deaver, GeoEngineers, Inc. Topic: Virtual Globe Smackdown

Apr – Ralph Kiefer Co-author of Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Topic: Photographing Hawaiian Volcanoes in the Infrared

Apr – CAREER PANEL

Chris Aldridge, i-Ten Associates

Carol Murdock, Clackamas County Water Environment Services

Whityn Owen, USDA - NRCS

David Graves, Columbia River Region Intertribal Fish Commission

Geoffrey Chew, Portland Water Bureau

2006/2007

Oct – Dawn Wright, Professor of Geography and Oceanography, Oregon State University. Topic: Acoustic Remote Sensing and Marine GIS in the South Pacific (and Elsewhere)

Oct – Lisa Zurk, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of The Northwest Electromagnetics and Acoustics Research Lab, Portland State University. Topic: Physics-Based Processing for Radar Terrain Imagery and Sonar Mapping of Coral Reefs

Nov – James Meacham, InfoGraphics Lab Director, University of Oregon. Topic: From Grizzlies to Geysers: Creating the Atlas of Yellowstone

Feb – CAREER PANEL

Chris Aldridge, Spencer Gross

Mark Bosworth, Metro

Michele Huffman, USDA Forest Service

Jackie Olsen, USGS Water Resources Division, Portland

Molly Vogt, City of Gresham

Feb – Matt Stevenson, CORE GIS. Topic: A Conservation Plan for the Columbia Land Trust

Mar – Robert McMaster, Professor, Geography, University of Minnesota. Topic: The National Historical Geographic Information System

Apr – Amy Lobben, Assistant Professor, Geography, University of Oregon. Topic: Understanding What the Map User Understands

Apr – Robert Kennedy, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station, Corvallis. Topic: Applied Change Detection: New Approaches for Monitoring National Parks and Forested Lands at Regional and National Scales

May – Demetrios Gatziolis, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station. Topic: The Utility of LiDAR for Forest Inventories

May – Judy Olson, Professor, Geography, Michigan State University. Topic: Map Projections: For Mere Mortals

2005/2006

Oct – Steve King, NOAA/National Weather Service. Topic: Columbia River Water Stage Modeling & Prediction

Oct – Geoffrey Duh, Geography, Portland State University. Topic: Careers in GIS & Remote Sensing

Nov– Dan Brown, School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan. Topic: Land Cover Change in the Exurbs: A View from Michigan

Jan – GIS Job Market Forum

Feb – Anne Hillyer, BPA. Topic: Georeferencing and Orthorectification of Air Photos in the Softcopy Environment

Feb – Michael Wing, Oregon State University. Topic: Mapping and Analyzing Crime in the National Forest

Mar – Jeff Nighbert, BLM. Topic: Managing a GIS in the Real World"

Apr – Ralph Kiefer, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Topic: 50 Years of Remote Sensing and GIS: A Personal Journey

Apr – Kevin Martin, City of Portland, GIS Analyst. Topic: Recent applications of LiDAR and multispectral imagery in the City of Portland, focusing primarily on mapping canopy and tree heights in Tryon Creek watershed

May – Heejun Chang, Assistant Professor of Geography, PSU. Topic: Land Cover Change and Water Quality: Portland and Seoul Metro Areas

May – Doug Smith. Topic: Designing Aerial Mapping Projects for GIS: Key Project Planning issues and Considerations

2004/2005

Oct – Marc Thomas, BLM. Topic: The PLSS in Remotely Sensed Images

Oct – Matt Dietemeyer, Dept of Assessment & GIS, Clark Co, Washington. Topic: Applying LiDAR & Infrared Aerial Photography to create a Land Cover Classification for Clark County, Washington

Nov – Steve Duncan, Bonneville Power Administration. Topic: Photogrammetry 101, Part 1

Jan - CAREER PANEL

Glenda Woodcock, Mt Hood National Forest Public Affairs

Demetrios Gatziolis, Dale Weyermann, Sally Campbell, & Todd Schroeder, USFS PNW Research Station

Susan Kelly & Tim Hall, Portland Water Bureau Community Outreach

Sheila Casey, BLM HR Specialist

Shelley Moore, BLM SCEP Student- GIS Trainee

Jan – Tom Pagh, OSI Geomatics, Inc. and National Director, ASPRS. Topic: High Accuracy Photogrammetric Mapping for Transportation Design-Build Projects

Feb – Chris Aldridge, Spencer B. Gross, Inc. Topic: Photogrammetry 101, Part 2

Feb – Gregg Petrie, Senior Research Scientist, Imaging and Electro-optics Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Topic: PNWRC Land Resource Project: Partnerships Integrating New Technologies for Improved Environmental Decision Making

Mar – Duncan Crowl, Leica Geosystems. Topic: New Leica Photogrammetry Software

Apr – Ralph Kiefer, co-author of Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Topic: Fifty Years of Remote Sensing and GIS: A Personal Journ