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Hot News Items - April 2006 The place to be in April is the California GIS Conference in Santa Barbara! Summary of CGIA Participation and Sponsored Activities at CALGIS:
Details are presented below. CGIA
Sponsors California Geospatial Framework Draft Workshop at CALGIS,
April 5, 2006, Santa Barbara, CA The Outreach Workshop will be held Wednesday, April 5th, from 8 am to 11 am in the Anacapa Room in Fess Parker's Doubletree Resort. Baker and CGIA, on behalf of the USGS, California Resources Agency, and the California GIS Council, are excited to announce a two-part session open to all CALGIS conference attendees: 1. Geospatial
Data Coordination for FEMA's Map Modernization Program (30
minutes) 2. Outreach
Workshop for the California Geospatial Framework Draft Data Plan
(2.5 hours)
Your input will be captured in workshop summaries and rolled up into the Draft Data Plan, a living document for subsequent Geospatial Framework development and implementation in California. For more info, download PDF flyer California
GIS Council Will Meet at CalGIS Conference,
CGIA
Session at CalGIS Conference The first part of the session will focus on the implementation of CGIA's leadership vision. Main points include the impact of our new website for CGIA and its members, the benefits of supporting CGIA with membership and participation, the consequences of not having an effective CGIA and an explanation of current initiatives for both accomplishments during 2004-05 and on-going initiatives in 2005-06. Other discussion topics include a preview of CGIA's future strategic possibilities over the next three years. These include CGIA increasing synergistic regional collaboration, demonstrating why GIS is a "technology of choice" for evaluating many of California's cultural, economic and political policy choices, and CGIA's leadership role towards policy and legislative changes to allocate resources for creating on-going data sharing, training, regional collaboration projects in concert with the California Geographic Information Councils strategic directions. The session will also show how the organization encourages operational cooperation to implement emergency management, homeland security, and other regional projects. The second part of the session, from 9 am to 10 am, involves a regional collaboration roundtable with stakeholders about projects that have improved collaboration, cooperation, and resource allocation in support of strategic regional initiatives that have statewide implications and identify future regional project possibilities. This purpose of this open forum is for the California Geographic Information Association (CGIA) and the California GIS Council to obtain feedback that can be used to focus future policy discussion and direction. For complete conference information, please visit www.calgis.org. CGIA
will Present 2006 Awards at CalGIS CGIA Awards will be formally presented at CALGIS Conference in Santa Barbara on Friday, April 7 at the closing Brunch (starting at approximately 10:30 am). Since 1997, the California Geographic Information Association (CGIA) has recognized the outstanding accomplishments of the state's GIS community through its annual awards program. Join us at CALGIS to see who will be the outstanding winners of 2006 CGIA Awards:
Explanations of the award categories can be found here on the CGIA website. Metadata Updates are Important to Us As you change your data service offerings, please don't forget to update the appropriate metadata records for your organization in the California Environmental Information Catalog (http://gis.ca.gov/catalog/). If you haven't already created records for your data and information resources in CEIC, please do so. CEIC has been endorsed by the California GIS Council and is California's principal National Spatial Data Infrastructure node. CEIC records are harvested by Geospatial One-Stop (http://gos2.geodata.gov/wps/portal/gos). You can enter data directly into CEIC using its online data entry forms or "publish" your metadata for harvesting by CEIC. Job Announcements The County of Napa is seeking an experienced GIS/Web Programmer. The ideal candidate will have a 4-year college degree in a relevant field and at least two years GIS and Web programming experience in the ASP.NET environment, preferably using C#. Experience with VBA and ArcObjects is also desired, along with ArcIMS, ArcSDE and SQL Server. For full details and an application, visit Napa County's Jobs website at http://www.co.napa.ca.us/jobs.asp. Look for the position titled "Information Systems Specialist II GIS Programmer." The California Governor's Office of Emergency
Services is seeking highly qualified individuals to immediately
fill a Research Analyst I/II (GIS) position based in Oakland.
See: http://www.spb.ca.gov/employment/more_info.cfm?recno=263624,
or contact: Christine West at 916-845-8324 or at christine_west@oes.ca.gov. The USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, is currently in the process of outreach to assess interest in two Resource Information Specialist positions.
The Mendocino County Department of Information Services is currently advertising for a GIS Tech position. The deadline for submitting an application and supplemental questionnaire is April 28, 2006. The job is listed as a Personal Computer Technician I, however, the job is actually that of a GIS Tech I. Any PC Tech experience thta you have to add along with GIS knowledge and experience would be an added plus.
National
Hydrography Dataset One-Day Workshop This workshop will closely examine the portrayal of California hydrography to uncover strengths and weaknesses of the data. Using the National Hydrography Dataset along with easy-to-use GIS functions, you will learn how to create basic surface water maps. You will add intelligence about the water to build a powerful database containing the characteristics of the surface water for California. Armed with this information, you will make better-informed decisions based on an in-depth understanding of California's surface water. To take full advantage of the CalGIS annual conference, we have scheduled this training in Ventura to maximize travel options. Please pick the day that works best for you and contact costergren@usgs.gov (916-278-9510) for reservations---first come, first served, but we will try to accommodate everyone. Download PDF flyer The Northwest Environmental Training Center
Presents Instructors: Ben Thomas, Ben Thomas Associates, Inc., Dave Belyea, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality; Dennis Burke, PE, ND Burke Associates; Scott Wilson, Wilson/Rogers Associates; and Bob Wiese, Northwest Tank Course Description: This entry-level two-day course is an excellent primer for new UST inspectors or anyone who needs a comprehensive overview of the requirements for UST systems. Get simple explanations on complex rules from top experts in the field, plus get practical advice on real-world site conditions to ensure you are better prepared for the nuances of compliance inspections. Course Web Page: http://www.nwetc.org/opol-405_04-06_portland.htm Two NBII USGS Metadata Training Seminars (*for federal agencies*) Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Content Standard Geospatial Metadata and the NBII Biological Data Profile. Sacramento Federal Building, USBR Training
Room Course description: Metadata records help preserve the usefulness of data over time by detailing methods for data collection and data set creation. These standardized records greatly minimize duplication of effort in the collection of expensive digital data, and foster sharing of digital data resources through Clearinghouses and websites. This 1 ½ day workshop provides an introduction to the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata and the NBII Biological Data Profile, as well as metadata development tools, strategies for production, and clearinghouses. The Biological Profile encompasses the entire geospatial metadata standard and includes additional elements to describe taxonomy, methods, and analytical tools (such as models). Demonstrations for producing documentation for a sample data set using Metavist software will be part of the main workshop, and the optional half-day will allow participants time for hands-on experience with the software. If you have questions, contact Lorri Peltz-Lewis,
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Mid Pacific Region Regional Geospatial
Data. Two-Day Course, "Working with ArcGIS Network Analyst," at the Oakland Training Lab, April 13th & 14th, 2006 Built around the new network dataset, ArcGIS Network Analyst software incorporates an advanced connectivity model that more accurately represents real-world multimodal networks. This course teaches how to create network datasets and migrate existing data, such as shapefiles and coverages, into a network dataset. Participants work with network datasets to solve different types of network problems such as finding the most efficient travel route, finding the closest facility, and defining service areas based on travel time. The course also teaches how to calculate origin-destination matrices for network locations. This course is designed for experienced ArcGIS users who want to create and manage network datasets and perform network system analyses. Participants should have completed Introduction to ArcGIS I or Learning ArcGIS 9 and Introduction to ArcGIS II. Completion of Building Geodatabases I is recommended. Those who complete this course will be able to:
ESRI site: $900 (per seat) University
of California Riverside, Extension Introduction to ArcGIS Earth Science
802.2 (1.5 CEU) Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Project
Management Cartographic Design Earth Science
X104 (3 units) Introduction to Photogrammetry Earth
Science X453.5 (1.5 units) Using Geographic Information Systems in
Landscape Archaeology GPS Processing and Analysis Earth
Science X440.8 (3.5 units) Map Projections Earth Science X440.9
(1.5 units) UC Riverside Extension presents the 9th
Annual GIS Summer School 2006 To enroll with Visa or MasterCard, please call (800) 442-4990. Click here for other enrollment options. For complete information, including course descriptions and instructors, please see our winter and spring course catalogs or visit our web site at http://www.extension.ucr.edu/catalog.html. If you have questions regarding any of these courses, requirements for the Certificates or your current status in the certificate program, please call 951-827-5804 or email sciences@ucx.ucr.edu. Request for Submittal of Statement of Qualifications and Proposal for a Geographic Information Systems Orthophoto, Basemap, Associated Layers and Data The University of California, Riverside
(UCR) requests proposals (RFP) from qualified consultants to assist
the Office of Academic Planning and Budget (APB) in preparing
a seamless, campus-wide, integrated digital map, herein referred
to as the "Map." The Map will use digital orthophotography
for the development of various base map products in a computerized
Geographic Information System (GIS) that will help meet the needs
of the campus in the following: a campus base map with physical
boundaries and locations of facilities, streets, sidewalks, and
topography. It is the intent that additional "layers"
will be developed in the future to support campus administrative
units such as physical plant (infrastructure), fire (locations
of fire lanes, hydrants, etc.), and Office of Design & Construction
(for architectural design consultants and contractors). The orthophotography
is to be supplied by the successful consultant and will be the
foundation of this system, acting as a reference network and base
for additional spatial data development and GIS applications by
other campus units. The Map will consist of the following layers:
The base map will serve as the foundation of a larger GIS initiative that is being pursued by Capital & Physical Planning, which is a division of Academic Planning & Budget. Currently the unit has several ArcGIS v. 9.x site licenses. All GIS deliverables produced via this effort will be utilized by desktop GIS terminals and held on a central server utilized by the entire office with the intent of creating a web-based enterprise GIS. Free
ESRI Virtual Seminar, April 27: Editing in ArcGIS 9: Tips &
Tricks II ESRI
ArcGIS User Group Locations
International
Conference in GIS and Health: Objectives of the conference:
For complete conference information, please visit http://geog.hku.hk/HealthGIS2006. CGIA
2006-2007 Membership Drive Starting Soon! CGIA extends a special "Thank You" to the California Resources Agency for their hosting of our web site. This special arrangement reflects the close working relationship that exists between our two organizations and our mutual interests in using geospatial technologies to improve government services. |
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