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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.

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

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

11:42am PDT

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

1:30pm PDT

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

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

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

4:00pm PDT

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

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.

1:30pm PDT

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