Fall NEARC 2024

Fall NEARC 2024

8:00am EDT

WORKSHOP: A Knowledge Workers Guide to Visual Management (advance registration and additional fee required) TBABrett Horr, GISP, LAVM

8:30am EDT

GIS EDUCATORS DAY: Registration Desk Open; Coffee & Networking Montpelier C

9:00am EDT

GIS EDUCATORS DAY: Opening Comments & Welcome Montpelier C

9:15am EDT

GIS EDUCATORS DAY: New York State K-12 Geography Education with ArcGIS Online Montpelier CJeff Herter • Paige Gebhardt

9:45am EDT

GIS EDUCATORS DAY: Bringing GIS to the Homeschool Community Montpelier CJessica Morgan

10:15am EDT

GIS EDUCATORS DAY: Interactive Web Maps as a Teaching Tool Montpelier CMark Baran

10:45am EDT

GIS EDUCATORS DAY: Break Prefunction

11:00am EDT

GIS EDUCATORS DAY: Embrace the Chaos, Provide Snacks: Lessons Learned Producing High Quality Data with a Student Workforce Montpelier CAnna Royar

12:00pm EDT

GIS EDUCATORS DAY: Lunch On Your Own TBA

1:00pm EDT

GIS EDUCATORS DAY: Lightning Talks Montpelier CCarol Cady • Shane Bradt • Jessica Pearson • Brian Baldwin

1:30pm EDT

GIS EDUCATORS DAY: The African Building Heritage Project: Preserving Cultural Heritage with GIS Technology Montpelier CBahare Sanaie-Movahed

2:00pm EDT

GIS EDUCATORS DAY: Best Practices for Sharing Research and Student-Produced Data Montpelier CBrian Baldwin

2:30pm EDT

GIS EDUCATORS DAY: Break Prefunction

2:45pm EDT

GIS EDUCATORS DAY: Lessons learned while Integrating Drones into Salem State’s Geography and Sustainability Department Montpelier CKeith Ratner • Nick Geron

3:15pm EDT

GIS EDUCATORS DAY: Teaching with AI: Critical GIS Education in an Uncertain Future Montpelier CAletha Spang

3:45pm EDT

GIS EDUCATORS DAY: Group Discussion and Concluding Remarks Montpelier C

5:00pm EDT

SOCIAL EVENT: Sunday Welcome Mixer at the St. Johns Club St. John's Club

7:00am EDT

Registration Desk Open Prefunction

7:30am EDT

Breakfast - Sponsored by Stone Environmental, Inc. Prefunction

8:15am EDT

NEARC 101 Green Mountain C

9:00am EDT

GENERAL SESSION: Welcome & Keynote Address by Andrew Turner: Making GIS Available to Everyone – The Future With AI Adirondack BallroomAndrew Turner Esri Hands On Learning Lab Vermont B

10:00am EDT

Refreshment Break Prefunction

10:30am EDT

Esri User Conference Condensed Version Part 1 Lake Champlain BCarl Nylen GIS INSIGHTS: ERPS AND REPORTING: Utilizing ERP Software to Enhance Internal Logistics and Marketing with GIS Green Mountain CBrett Barnard • Rob Nalewajk Field Data Collection: A Conversation About Non-Survey GPS Technology and Configuration Within the ESRI Suite of Software Green Mountain BJoseph Grossman WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE: Women in the Workplace - A Collaborative Discussion Green Mountain AKatie Grillo GEOAI WITH PRO: Utilizing GeoAI and Image Detection Tools in ArcGIS Pro for Enhanced Geospatial Analysis Lake Champlain ATito Sanchez

11:00am EDT

Esri User Conference Condensed Version Part 2 Lake Champlain BMark Scott

11:30am EDT

Real-Time GIS with ArcGIS Velocity Lake Champlain BKrithica Kantharaj GIS INSIGHTS: ERPS AND REPORTING: Turning Your Field-Collected ArcGIS Online Data into Photo Reports Using ArcPy/DocxTemplate Green Mountain CDavid Heacock

12:00pm EDT

Lunch and Visit Exhibitors - Sponsored by NV5 Geospatial Adirondack Ballroom

1:30pm EDT

ArcGIS Solutions for Emergency Response Lake Champlain BMark Scott ENVIRONMENTAL: Finding the right spot to go six feet under the ground: A GIS Suitability Analysis for a Conservation Cemetery Green Mountain CJackie Claver GIS TOOLS 1: Using Survey123 to Create Interactive Tool Directions Lake Champlain ADon Katnik PORTFOLIO BUILDING: Building Your GISP Portfolio Green Mountain A UTILITY NETWORKS: Network Analyst: Tips, Tricks, & Use Cases Green Mountain BBrittany Hoffnagle

2:00pm EDT

Integrating Data with ArcGIS Data Pipelines Lake Champlain BTom Schwartzman ENVIRONMENTAL: Erosion Modeling Prototype for Departments of Transportation Green Mountain CAimee Mountain GIS TOOLS 1: Strategies and Tips for Developing No Code/Low Code Experience Builder Apps Lake Champlain ALarry Spraker

2:30pm EDT

Migrating from Web App Builder to Experience Builder Lake Champlain BJudy Fung PORTFOLIO BUILDING: NEARC and NEURISA Panel Green Mountain ANate Ward, GISP ENVIRONMENTAL: Coastal Flood Hazards on Cape Cod: A Mapping Resource Toolkit to Promote New Regulations for a Changing Climate Green Mountain CDeb Ricotta GIS TOOLS 1: Leveraging ArcGIS Pro and Global Mapper Pro: A Comparison of Viewshed Analysis Tools Lake Champlain AJoseph Grossman UTILITY NETWORKS: To the Utility Network & Beyond! Green Mountain BErin McCormick

3:00pm EDT

Break and Visit Exhibitors Prefunction

3:15pm EDT

GENERAL SESSION: NEARC Business Meeting Adirondack Ballroom

4:15pm EDT

POSTER: Analyzing Saskatchewan, Canada 2023 Fires Using Landsat Imagery and ArcGIS Pro Land Cover Classification PrefunctionShayla Flaherty POSTER: Broadband Mapping in Connecticut: Measuring and Tracking Access and Adoption PrefunctionAshley Benitez POSTER: Early Assessment of Nutrient Deficiency in Fruit Crops using Unpiloted Aerial System (UAS) Imagery PrefunctionSusmita Lamichhane POSTER: Engaging Teens in Environmental Storytelling with StoryMaps PrefunctionCary Chadwick • Emily Wilson POSTER: Forest Carbon, AMC’s Maine Woods and Net Zero PrefunctionCatherine Poppenwimer POSTER: Geospatial Investigation of Environmental Factors and ALS in Ohio: The Role of Nickel and Nickel Compounds PrefunctionGrace Payne • Anh-Ton Nguyen POSTER: Gulf of Maine + Central Atlantic Offshore Wind Leasing Process PrefunctionQuentin Andersen POSTER: Leveraging Post-Treatment Monitoring Data to Evaluate Outcomes of Invasive Species Management Programs PrefunctionFate Syewoangnuan POSTER: Maine Comprehensive Plan Data Portal and Mapping Services PrefunctionAshley Gamache POSTER: Mapping the northernmost town in New Hampshire - Pittsburg PrefunctionJon Atwood POSTER: Remote Sensing Analysis Between 2001 and 2021 at Subalpine Summits, Acadia National Park PrefunctionMin Kook Kim POSTER: Road Centerline Update Request App PrefunctionPam DeAndrea POSTER: Salt Marsh Adaptation to Sea Level Rise in the Lower Cape Cod Region: Finding Potential Conservation Sites for Resiliency PrefunctionTiare Sierra Rivera POSTER: SLU EMS Response Times: Network Analysis of St. Lawrence University Campus PrefunctionEvelyn Bibbins POSTER: Survey123 for Data Collection PrefunctionLiza Frassinelli POSTER: The Common Operating Picture (COP) - Mapping During Emergencies PrefunctionJohnathan Croft POSTER: The Last 10 Years: Space-Time Cube Visualization of St. Lawrence University Campus Classroom Percent Utility PrefunctionMarika Stauring POSTER: Tracking Changes of Orchid Populations After Two Decades in a Northeastern Dwarf Shrub Bog PrefunctionKim Ryniec POSTER: Twenty Years of Helping People Help the Land: A Geospatial Review of NRCS Conservation Efforts in Vermont (2004-2024)  PrefunctionJohn Van Hoesen POSTER: Understanding Buildings in GIS PrefunctionRebecca Davis POSTER: Windy Business PrefunctionJonathan Naughton SOCIAL EVENT: Vendor/Poster Social - Sponsored by Bad Elf Prefunction

7:00am EDT

Registration Desk Open Prefunction

7:30am EDT

Breakfast and Visit Exhibitors - Sponsored by CAI Technologies Prefunction

8:00am EDT

Esri Hands On Learning Lab Vermont B

9:00am EDT

GENERAL SESSION: Keynote Address by Chris Danforth, University of Vermont Adirondack BallroomChris Danforth

10:00am EDT

Break and Visit Exhibitors Prefunction

10:30am EDT

ArcGIS Urban for Land Use and Transportation Analyses Lake Champlain BJudy Fung ARCGIS ONLINE AND HUB: Integrating Policy, Maps, Living Atlas Data and Dynamic Custom Charting with ESRI’s Hub Green Mountain BMelanie Needle DATA QUALITY AND AI SUCCESS: Using GeoAI for Flood mitigation modeling Lake Champlain AMichael Blair DRONES/UAS: Leveraging Esri for Drone Integration Green Mountain CAirspace Link WATER RESOURCES - FLOODING: Improving Flood Hazard Resilience in Florida: Automated Spatial Vulnerability Analysis of Community Critical Assets Impacted by Climate Change Flooding Green Mountain AEmma Estabrook

11:00am EDT

What's New in ArcGIS Pro Lake Champlain BKrithica Kantharaj ARCGIS ONLINE AND HUB: Using ArcGIS Online to Connect Vermonters to the Internet Green Mountain BMary Haley DATA QUALITY AND AI SUCCESS: Data Value before Data Quality before AI Lake Champlain APeter Veenstra DRONES/UAS: UAS for Flood Response & Recovery: From Flight Planning to Data Sharing Green Mountain CAdam Zylka WATER RESOURCES - FLOODING: Riverine Mapping & 2D Hydraulic Modeling with UAS topobathymetric LiDAR in Lyndon, VT Green Mountain AEvan Carlson • Doug Osborne

11:30am EDT

Leveraging ArcGIS for Community Engagement and Collaboration Lake Champlain BJudy Fung ARCGIS ONLINE AND HUB: Enhancing Public Engagement through ArcGIS: Integrating Survey123, Dashboards, and StoryMaps Green Mountain BStephanie Pelletier • Kristina Sargent DATA QUALITY AND AI SUCCESS: Embrace the Chaos, Provide Snacks: Lessons Learned Producing High Quality Data with a Student Workforce Lake Champlain AAnna Royar DRONES/UAS: 10 Lessons Learned flying drones since before there were rules Green Mountain CKevin Ham WATER RESOURCES - FLOODING: Flood Risk Analysis Green Mountain ARebecca Davis

12:00pm EDT

Lunch and Visit Exhibitors - Sponsored by VHB Adirondack Ballroom

1:30pm EDT

Managing Parcel Data in ArcGIS Lake Champlain BMark Scott ASSET MANAGEMENT 1: Indoor GIS: a history, trials, tribulations and the promise Green Mountain BSamuel Lingeman GIS TOOLS 2: Utilizing Arcade Expressions for Interactive Analysis within Web Apps Green Mountain AAustin Canty REMOTE SENSING: Extracting Vermont's Energy Infrastructure From QL1 LiDAR PointClouds Green Mountain CMaeve Naumann DIVE DEEPER INTO TECHNICAL SKILLS 1: Google Big Query for ArcGIS Users Lake Champlain ABrian Hebert

2:00pm EDT

A Deeper Dive Into AI in the ArcGIS Platform Lake Champlain BAndrew Turner ASSET MANAGEMENT 1: Employing wireless access points for space utilization Green Mountain BSamuel Lingeman GIS TOOLS 2: Top 9 ArcGIS Dashboard tips and tricks I’ve stumbled upon (and a resource to help GIS users put them to use) Green Mountain AShane Bradt REMOTE SENSING: Using NASA Data to Analyze the Impact of Climate Phenology on Caribou Survival Green Mountain CBen Silver • Levi Mitchell • Mahnoor Naeem

2:30pm EDT

Imagery and ArcGIS Online Lake Champlain BTom Schwartzman ASSET MANAGEMENT 1: Let's talk Asset Lifecycle Management Green Mountain BGreg Zeller DIVE DEEPER INTO TECHNICAL SKILLS 1: Custom ArcGIS Widget Development and the GIS Cloud Lake Champlain AChris Aragon GIS TOOLS 2: Making Moves: Lessons in Migrating to Esri’s Experience Builder Green Mountain ACary Chadwick REMOTE SENSING: High Resolution Land Cover for Maine and the Nation Green Mountain CNate Harold

3:00pm EDT

Break Prefunction

3:30pm EDT

Microsoft 365 and Esri Lake Champlain BKrithica Kantharaj FME: Surficial Geology with FME Green Mountain BAndrew Koure GIS TOOLS 3: University Asset Management Green Mountain ACourtney Malott NATURAL RESOURCES 1: Conservation through Coordinates: GIS Strategies for Monarch CCAA Enrollment for Transportation and Utility Clients Green Mountain CJesse Therrien PORTAL CONTENT MONITORING: Building a Power BI Dashboard for ArcGIS Portal Content Reporting Lake Champlain AJon Atwood

4:00pm EDT

AGOL Administration Tools Lake Champlain BTom Schwartzman FME: Developing a Standardized Broadband Serviceable Location Dataset for Massachusetts Green Mountain BCaitlyn Severy GIS TOOLS 3: Connecticut's Statewide Geospatial Data: Technical and Outreach Activities for Data Access Green Mountain AEmily Wilson • Alfredo Herrara NATURAL RESOURCES 1: New York State Invasive Species Tiers: A Geospatial Data Driven Approach to Invasive Species Management Prioritization Green Mountain CJohn Marino PORTAL CONTENT MONITORING: Optimizing GIS Data Utilization: A Comprehensive Dashboard Solution Lake Champlain ASmruti Naik

4:30pm EDT

ArcGIS Government-to-Government Collaboration Lake Champlain BScot Decristofaro LIGHTNING TALK: Assessing health and impact street trees using UAVs and field methods in Worcester, MA Green Mountain ANick Geron LIGHTNING TALK: Estimating Mangrove Carbon Stock in the Everglades National Park Green Mountain AAlex Fazzino LIGHTNING TALK: Improving Stream Assessment for Trout and Salmon Restoration in Appalachian Mountain Club’s Maine Woods Initiative Green Mountain ABraedon Lineman LIGHTNING TALK: Mapping Success: Mind Maps as a GIS Project Planning Tool Green Mountain AGarrett Goff POSTER LIGHTNING TALK: Road Centerline Update Request App Green Mountain BPam DeAndrea POSTER LIGHTNING TALK: Survey123 for Data Collection Green Mountain BLiza Frassinelli POSTER LIGHTNING TALK: The Common Operating Picture (COP) - Mapping During Emergencies Green Mountain BJohnathan Croft NATURAL RESOURCES 1: Modern Update to the Branford Natural Resources Inventory Green Mountain CJackie Claver PORTAL CONTENT MONITORING: Using ArcGIS Monitor in an Enterprise GIS Lake Champlain AAlan Hammersmith

6:00pm EDT

Awards Reception and Banquet - Sponsored by Esri Adirondack Ballroom

7:00am EDT

Registration Desk Open Prefunction

7:30am EDT

Breakfast Green Mountain Foyer

8:30am EDT

Management Talk 1 - GIS Governance Lake Champlain BCarl Nylen ASSET MANAGEMENT 2: Making Work Orders Work in ArcGIS Online Green Mountain BDaniel Shinnick DIVE DEEPER INTO TECHNICAL SKILLS 2: Tiles and Tribulations Lake Champlain AAndrew Joseph NATURAL RESOURCES 2: Visualizing Aquatic Invasive Species in Connecticut with ArcGIS Experience Builder: Geodatabase Design and Web Map Development Green Mountain ARiley Doherty PUBLIC SECTOR 1: Improving Parcel and CAMA Data Collection in Connecticut Green Mountain CLeah Hodges • Ashley Benitez

9:00am EDT

Management Talk 2 (Change Management) Lake Champlain BPaul Rooney ASSET MANAGEMENT 2: Subsurface Utility Location: Fiber Optic Geolocation for NHDOT Green Mountain BBrenden Bowen DIVE DEEPER INTO TECHNICAL SKILLS 2: Automating setup of Enterprise Geodatabase based Portal layers for data collection services Lake Champlain ADallas Shearer NATURAL RESOURCES 2: Geospatial step shifts occurring in the forest-water nexus in a temperate forest in the Mid-Atlantic United States. Green Mountain ABrandi Gaertner PUBLIC SECTOR 1: Bikeshare Station Expansion in Boston Green Mountain CEmma Curran

9:30am EDT

Understanding The New User Roles Lake Champlain BPaul Rooney ASSET MANAGEMENT 2: Amping Up the Accuracy of Utility GIS Green Mountain BZachary Adams DIVE DEEPER INTO TECHNICAL SKILLS 2: Mixing Python with SQL Lake Champlain AJason Wise, GISP NATURAL RESOURCES 2: A GIS-Based Approach to Delineating Top of Coastal Bank Green Mountain AKate Schassler PUBLIC SECTOR 1: Modern GIS Deliverables and Mobile Data Collection for Historic Preservation Green Mountain CAlexis Coplin • Britta Tonn

10:00am EDT

Break Green Mountain Foyer

10:30am EDT

ArcGIS Collaboration - Technical Lake Champlain BMark Scott ASSET MANAGEMENT 3: Asset Management for In-Ground Infrastructure: Did We Really Paint Every Manhole Cover? Green Mountain BBenjamin Anderson GIS INSIGHTS: COORDINATION, ENGAGEMENT, AND EDUCATION: Coordinating Local Emergency Response Using Experience Builder Lake Champlain AHeather Bhowmick • Neill Fotheringham PUBLIC SECTOR 2: Crowdsourced data collection for municipal and transportation planners Green Mountain CStefan Bengtson WATER RESOURCES - UTILITY: Using SQL database views to optimize reporting and tracking workflows for enterprise geodatabases Green Mountain AColin Bergmann

11:00am EDT

Real-Time GIS with ArcGIS Velocity Lake Champlain BKrithica Kantharaj ASSET MANAGEMENT 3: Asset Management: Leveraging Workflows & ArcGIS to Streamline Processes Green Mountain BMichael Boyd GIS INSIGHTS: COORDINATION, ENGAGEMENT, AND EDUCATION: Long-term community engagement strategies lead to a more comprehensive GIS (and feel-good results!) Lake Champlain ASarah Godfrey PUBLIC SECTOR 2: Creating the New Hampshire Zoning Atlas: A Behind-the-Scenes Look Green Mountain CRick Lederer-Barnes WATER RESOURCES - UTILITY: Leveraging GIS for use with Residential Waste Water Treatment Procedures within The Niagara County Public Health Department (Environmental Division) Green Mountain ALisa Casey

11:30am EDT

Migrating from Web App Builder to Experience Builder Lake Champlain BJudy Fung ASSET MANAGEMENT 3: Field Maps for All Occasions: A Retrospective on Data Collection and Asset Management with Field Maps Green Mountain BTristan Boyd GIS INSIGHTS: COORDINATION, ENGAGEMENT, AND EDUCATION: ArcGIS and Alteryx: Integrating GIS Workflows for School District Modeling Lake Champlain AKate Doiron PUBLIC SECTOR 2: Land Record Management with ArcGIS Pro and Parcel Fabric Green Mountain CScott Manley WATER RESOURCES - UTILITY: Understanding Wastewater Sludge Management in Massachusetts: Using the power of maps to effectively visualize survey data Green Mountain AEmily Mainville