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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.

Shawn Granton

Portland Community College

Student

Portland, Oregon USA

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Currently a student at Portland Community College, will transfer to Portland State University in Fall of 2026. Majoring in Geography and GIS. Has led walks and bicycle rides exploring Portland's unique history and geography since 2004 via his own organization, Urban Adventure League.

8:30am PDT

Opening Plenary and Keynote - Creating Capacity in Times of Change: Understanding the Brain and Moving Forward CascadiaDr. Jessica Lorenz

10:30am PDT

GPN-PNW Emerging Professionals Mentorship Program AuditoriumJohn 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

11:30am PDT

GIS for Wildfire Response at the Oregon Department of Forestry AtriumErik Larsen

11:42am PDT

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

12:00pm PDT

Lunch Buffet (Provided) Cascadia

1:30pm PDT

Tactile Cartography with 3D Terrain Modeling Classrooms 1-4Chance Morrison

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

2:24pm 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

2:42pm 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

2:51pm PDT

Lightning Talks Round 7 - Metro's Safe Routes to School Walkshed Application ColumbiaJake Lovell

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

Working with Local 3D data in the ArcGIS Native SDKs Classrooms 1-4Ian Maher

5:30pm PDT

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

8:00am PDT

Remote Sensing to Restore a Degraded Jurisdictional Wetland in Urban Washington County AtriumEmma Colburn • Carly Holzschuh

9:30am PDT

Mapping the Future of Gresham’s Parks Classrooms 1-4Brandon McCullough

10:00am PDT

Break (Refreshments Provided) TBA

10:30am PDT

ArcGIS Instant Apps: Engage your community Classrooms 1-4Sarah McDonald

11:00am PDT

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

11:30am PDT

Designing Maps for the Next Generation: A Retrospective on the Third Edition of the Student Atlas of Oregon Classrooms 1-4Aaron Menconi • Rachel Rudick • Owen Scholes.

12:00pm PDT

Lunch Buffet (Provided) Cascadia

1:30pm PDT

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

2:30pm PDT

(in)visible Oregon Classrooms 1-4Joseph Bard

3:00pm PDT

Break (Refreshments Provided) TBA

3:30pm PDT

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