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Kate Thornhill
Oregon State University
Graduate Student
Eugene, Oregon
About me
Oregon State University graduate student interested in public engagement, digital storytelling, environmental justice, and remote sensing analysis.
Wednesday
, April 29
8:00am
PDT
Map Gallery Open
Cafe
8:30am
PDT
Opening Plenary and Keynote - Creating Capacity in Times of Change: Understanding the Brain and Moving Forward
Cascadia
Dr. Jessica Lorenz
10:30am
PDT
GPN-PNW Emerging Professionals Mentorship Program
Auditorium
John Thai • Lorena Nascimento • Roxanne Garcia • Daniel Carter • Vyla Grindberg • Joe Hayes • Lindsey Karr • Joe Bard • Kyle Curtis • Kate Pope • Eliza Yurkov • Kyrian Nnadi • Jake Lovell • Catherine Green • Leah Bollin • Zack Kasson
11:00am
PDT
Building a Resilient Imagery Program
Atrium
Savannah Heckman • Josh Weilert
11:24am
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 3 - Data equity in transportation safety
Columbia
Nat Moss • Kate Gregory
11:33am
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 3 - Designing Accessible Static Maps: WCAG Compliance at Metro
Columbia
Franz Arend
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
Atrium
Kate Emmel
2:00pm
PDT
Lessons Learned in The Special Operations Community - Inspiring GIS & Indoor Mapping
Auditorium
Josh Longenecker
2:06pm
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 5 - Historic Counties of Oregon
Columbia
Nicholas 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.
Columbia
Erin Zipper
2:30pm
PDT
Stepping Out of The Shadows: Utilizing Invariant Color Spaces to Build a Shadow Mask in ArcGIS Pro
Classrooms 1-4
Kate Pope
Simplifying GIS Workflows with Arcade
Auditorium
Nicholas Cramer
2:42pm
PDT
Lightning Talks Round 7- Pishno Pi̱yakni (Our Land): Environmental Justice, Colonialism, and Indigenous Land Sovereignty of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Columbia
Allison McClaughry • Professor Gunwha Oh
4:00pm
PDT
Reappraisal Pilot Project: Multnomah County Leverages ArcGIS Survey123 to Inspect Residential Properties
Auditorium
Jerry Oelerich
Identifying Patterns of Residential Summer Landscape Irrigation Via Remote Sensing
Classrooms 1-4
Daniel Welch
Geospatial Data-Driven Strategies to Improve Freshwater Ecosystems in the West
Atrium
Amanda Temple
4:30pm
PDT
Integrating PFAS Data in GIS
Atrium
Christopher Ratcliff Iverson
5:30pm
PDT
Opening Night Reception (drinks, heavy hors d'oeuvres and live music)
Cascadia
Thursday
, April 30
8:00am
PDT
Celestial Infrastructure: The History, Science, and Future of Global Satellite Positioning
Auditorium
Noah Flick
9:00am
PDT
How a Plan to Learn AI Became a Companion for ArcGIS Pro
Auditorium
Tim Rawson
9:30am
PDT
Mapping the Future of Gresham’s Parks
Classrooms 1-4
Brandon McCullough
10:30am
PDT
ArcGIS Instant Apps: Engage your community
Classrooms 1-4
Sarah McDonald
11:00am
PDT
Mapping Forgotten Routes: From Historical Texts to Interactive GIS Storytelling
Classrooms 1-4
Emily Westoby
Animating Urban Growth: Storytelling with RLIS Housing Data in ArcGIS Pro
Atrium
Al Mowbray
11:30am
PDT
Accessibilty Q & A
Auditorium
Chance Morrison • Lauren McKinney-Wise • Franz Arend • Emma Brenneman • Hallie Liu Rogers • Jon McDowell • Neil Green-Clancy
1:30pm
PDT
Responsive Mapping to a Food Access Crisis
Atrium
Kyle Curtis • Rebbeca Robinson
2:30pm
PDT
(in)visible Oregon
Classrooms 1-4
Joseph Bard
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