New Mexico Geographic Information Council Meeting & Workshop Announcements

Fall Program

Vision of GIT Education in New Mexico

NMGIC Fall Meeting
Albuquerque, NM

Thursday, November 21 and Friday, November 22

UNM Science & Technology Park
801 University Blvd SE

The NMGIC WORKSHOP/FALL MEETING will be held November 21 and 22, on the topic of GIS education. This will be an opportunity for NMGIC to fill its role as education consultants, and give input as to what the GIT program at UNM could look like. The new UNM Dean of Arts and Sciences, Reed Dasenbrock, will attend and make an overview presentation, and then would like to hear about what kind of information the program should have, and what NMGIC folks look for in graduates. There will also be discussion on the URISA National Certification status.

Thursday, November 21

The NMGIC Fall 2002 Meeting will include a Thursday afternoon pre-meeting facilitated forum discussing GIT education at UNM.
A panel consisting of New Mexico GIS professionals will discuss the UNM GIT program with the UNM Dean of Arts and Sciences, as well as the UNM GIScience Task Force Committee. The panel will focus on the Task Force Report (posted on the NMGIC webpage), and on what skills, etc. GIT professionals look for in future graduates (i.e., job applicants) of UNM GIScience. It is open to everyone, but it is specifically focused on UNM, while the Friday meeting will cover GIT Education throughout NM.

The panel consists of:

Shirley Baros

GIS Manager, Earth Data Analysis Center

Denise Bleakly

GIS Team Lead, Sandia National Laboratories (NMGIC Board)

M. Candace Bogart

Photogrammetry/GIS Unit Leader, USDA Forest Service

Gar Clarke

GIS Coordinator, New Mexico Office of the State Engineer

Rich Friedman

GIS Manager, McKinley County GIS Center (NMGIC Board)

Bart Matthews

Project Development Manager, Bohannan-Huston, Inc. (NMGIC Board)

Jon Phillips

GIS Coordinator, Bernalillo County

Paul Rich

GIS Team Leader, Los Alamos National Lab GISLab

Larry J. Rose

GIT Program Chair, Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute

Louis A. Scuderi

Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UNM

Richard P. Watson, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist, Earth Data Analysis Center

Reed Dasenbrock

Dean of Arts & Sciences, UNM

Kim Paul, Facilitator

Technology Program Administrator, NM State Forestry Division

The forum is scheduled for 1:00pm until 4:00pm, 11/21/2002, at the UNM Science & Technology Park Rotunda, 801 University Blvd SE in Albuquerque.

Friday, November 22

8:30-9:00

Coffee/setup

9:00-9:30

Welcome/Scholarship presentations/Election results/Gary Kress (USGS)

9:30-9:40

Dean Reed Dasenbrock - Introduction/overview

9:40-10:15

Rick Watson - UNM GIT taskforce report and synopsis of Thursday's forum

10:15-10:30

Break

10:30-11:15

Bruce Joffe, URISA National Certification status (Oakland, CA)

11:15-12:00

Mike DeMers, UCGIS (University Consortium for Geographic Information Science), Sponsored by the Rio Grande Chapter of ASPRS

12:00-1:00

Box lunch (provided)

1:00-2:30

Overview of GIS programs in the state, goal and status of each program.

Larry Rose - TVI GIS program
Mike DeMers - NMSU program
Denise Chavez/Monty Montieth - SIPI program
Jeff Toomey - Northern New Mexico Community College
Lynn Onken - San Juan College
Craig Watts (invited) - Santa Fe Community College
Doug Isley - Diné College

2:30-2:45

Break

2:45

Bruce Joffe, Model Law: GIS Responsibility for Licensed Surveyors

There will be posters and exhibits by NMGIC members available for viewing all day.

Most recent revision: Wednesday, November 11, 2002

Dave McCraw

Public Relations

NMGIC, Inc.

P.O. Box 9445

Albuquerque, NM 87119-9445

Phone: (505)835-5594

FAX: (505)835-6333

email: djmc@nmt.edu

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