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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.

Jeff Lesh, GISP

City of Gresham

Environmental Data Analyst

Gresham, OR

greshamoregon.gov

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

10:57am PDT

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

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

11:51am PDT

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

1:30pm PDT

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

1:57pm PDT

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

8:00am PDT

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

10:30am PDT

(Virtual) Accessibility best practices in GIS and mapping AuditoriumJessica Mccall

2:00pm PDT

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