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GIS in Action 2026

Welcome to the 2026 GIS in Action Annual Conference hosted by the Oregon & SW Washington Chapter of the Geospatial Professional Network & Cascadia ASPRS.

Alex Clasen

Portland Community College

Portland, OR

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I'm a GIS Certificate student at PCC who's passionate about Environmental Justice and graduating in June 2025. Seeking internships and entry level GIS work in the PNW and beyond!

8:00am PDT

Map Gallery Open Cafe

10:30am PDT

A brief history of topographic mapping AtriumElaine Guidero

11:15am PDT

Lightning Talks Round 2 - Investigating Affordable Homeownership Program Impacts on Homeowner Equity: A GIS-Based Real Estate Index Approach ColumbiaKari Shippen

11:24am PDT

Lightning Talks Round 3 - Data equity in transportation safety ColumbiaNat Moss • Kate Gregory

11:33am PDT

Lightning Talks Round 3 - Designing Accessible Static Maps: WCAG Compliance at Metro ColumbiaFranz Arend

11:42am PDT

Lightning Talks Round 3 - Beyond the Slogan: Testing 15 Minute Neighborhoods in Seattle ColumbiaWeixuan Teng

11:51am PDT

Lightning Talks Round 4 - Modeling Streams & Drainage from High-Resolution Elevation Data ColumbiaBob Chappell

12:00pm PDT

Lunch Buffet (Provided) Cascadia

1:38pm PDT

Lightning Talks Round 4 - What would a road map of the Moon look like? ColumbiaHeather Sauerland

1:48pm PDT

Lightning Talks Round 5 - Scaling Utility UAS Inspections Through GIS-Driven Operation Efficiency ColumbiaHeather Sauerland

1:57pm PDT

Lightning Talks Round 5 - Student Project: Potential Permanent Ground Deformation on Emergency Transportation Routes ColumbiaJohn Thai

2:06pm PDT

Lightning Talks Round 5 - Historic Counties of Oregon ColumbiaNicholas Cramer

2:15pm PDT

Lightning Talks Round 6 - Hoop Dreams: Mapping American Streetball ColumbiaJoshua Weill

2:24pm PDT

Lightning Talks Round 6 - Burning Up the Walkshed: How Land Surface Temperature in one Portland, Oregon neighborhood restricts access to transit and other services. ColumbiaErin Zipper

2:30pm PDT

Stepping Out of The Shadows: Utilizing Invariant Color Spaces to Build a Shadow Mask in ArcGIS Pro Classrooms 1-4Kate Pope

3:30pm PDT

Legacy Data, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Mess. Classrooms 1-4Jordan Hamann

4:00pm PDT

Identifying Patterns of Residential Summer Landscape Irrigation Via Remote Sensing Classrooms 1-4Daniel Welch

4:30pm PDT

Integrating PFAS Data in GIS AtriumChristopher Ratcliff Iverson

5:30pm PDT

Opening Night Reception (drinks, heavy hors d'oeuvres and live music) Cascadia

8:00am PDT

Celestial Infrastructure: The History, Science, and Future of Global Satellite Positioning AuditoriumNoah Flick

8:30am PDT

Snowplows, traffic cameras, and an unfixable Esri bug - A tale of resilience Classrooms 1-4Lauren McKinney-Wise

9:00am PDT

Geospatial Professional Network - PNW Board Meeting (Tentative) Columbia

11:00am PDT

Mapping Forgotten Routes: From Historical Texts to Interactive GIS Storytelling Classrooms 1-4Emily Westoby

1:30pm PDT

Responsive Mapping to a Food Access Crisis AtriumKyle Curtis • Rebbeca Robinson

2:00pm PDT

Bringing SCADA to the Map: Using GIS to Integrate Sensor Data for Wastewater Operations Classrooms 1-4Carrie Schmidt

2:30pm PDT

Analyzing Risk with GIS at WSRB AtriumGuillaume Turcotte

3:30pm PDT

Closing Plenary and Keynote - Spatial Storytelling: Making the Case for an Essential (Vulnerable) Service AuditoriumEvan Landman