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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.

Anne Hillyer

Bonneville Power Administration (USDOE)

Cartographer

Portland, Oregon metro area

bpa.gov

About me

ASPRS, cartography, high-resolution (1-m or better) aerial imagery, habitat monitoring, accuracy, contracts, UAS, international development, diversity & inclusion

10:30am PDT

Lightning Talks Round 1 - Multi-Season UAV and LiDAR Assessment of Landscape and Vegetation Dynamics Following Dam Removal in the Klamath River Basin ColumbiaSu Jin Lee • Jordan Nowell • Zia Hill Sparks • Samantha Davenport

10:39am PDT

Lightning Talks Round 1 - The Great Burn ColumbiaDaniel Welch

10:48am PDT

Lightning Talks Round 1 - Orthometric Correction of Ground Control Points ColumbiaRyan Lennon

10:57am PDT

Lightning Talks Round 2 - Greater Cooling Sensitivity of Evapotranspiration in Water-Limited Urban Environments: Evidence from Portland, Oregon ColumbiaTarannum Khandoker

11:15am PDT

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

11:30am PDT

Linux for GIS Professionals Classrooms 1-4Rachel Gugler

12:00pm PDT

Lunch Buffet (Provided) Cascadia

1:30pm PDT

When Lidar Gets Weird: Adaptive Strategies for Systematic Noise and Classification Challenges for Topographic and Bathymetric Lidar AtriumKate Emmel

1:38pm PDT

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

2:06pm PDT

Lightning Talks Round 5 - Historic Counties of Oregon ColumbiaNicholas Cramer

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

2:42pm PDT

Lightning Talks Round 7- Pishno Pi̱yakni (Our Land): Environmental Justice, Colonialism, and Indigenous Land Sovereignty of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma ColumbiaAllison McClaughry • Professor Gunwha Oh

3:00pm PDT

Break (Refreshments Provided) TBA

3:30pm PDT

Lightning Talks Round 7 - For a Good Time Call: Bathroom Graffiti & Private Space ColumbiaJoshua Weill

4:00pm PDT

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

4:04pm PDT

Technologies of Containment and Bordering: Community Resistance Against the NWDC ColumbiaKati Sosa

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

9:30am PDT

Mobile Clinic Collaborative AtriumJohn Ruffing • Heather Fara • Verian Wedeking

10:00am PDT

Break (Refreshments Provided) TBA

10:30am PDT

Metro Data Resource Center (DRC) Updates: New RLIS Layers, App Enhancements, and Upcoming Work AtriumMadeline Steele

11:00am PDT

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

1:30pm PDT

Geospatial data storytelling to promote street art (Panel) AuditoriumTiffany Conklin • Libby Martin • Lorena Nascimento • Elana Eisenberg • Grace Galvin • Cherise Frehner

2:00pm PDT

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

2:30pm PDT

(in)visible Oregon Classrooms 1-4Joseph Bard

3:00pm PDT

Break (Refreshments Provided) TBA