FALL GIS CONFERENCE. Boyne Mountain Resort

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1 M I C A M P ' S 2 3 R D A N N U A L FALL GIS CONFERENCE S E P T E M B E R Boyne Mountain Resort

2 GETTING AROUND BOYNE Conference Sessions are held in the Civic Center Mountain Grand Lodge Front Desk Everett's Clock Tower Lodge Stein Eriksen's Trophy Room Pub Snowflake Lounge

3 CONFERENCE CENTER MAP

4 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Board Officers President: Chris Cantrell, GISP MCAO - GIS/IT Coordinator, Midland County Vice-President: Chad Burke - GIS & Mapping Coordinator, City of Coldwater Treasurer: Brent Thelen - GIS Coordinator, Calhoun County Secretary - Rosemary Anger, GISP MAAO - GIS Technician/Appraiser, Barry County Trustees Dr. Eric Anderson - Manager of Planning, Marquette County Jay Anderson, GISP - Transportation Planning & GIS Manager, Bay County Sue Hoch - Senior Systems Analyst, City of Kalamazoo Trevor Floyd, GISP - GIS Analyst, St. Clair County Nathan Fazer - GIS Technician, Midland County

5 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS Laura Anderson, GISP - Bay City Laura Anderson, has 10 years of experience in the GIS field. Currently, she is the Lead Power System Planner for Bay City Electric Light & Power. She has been with the City of Bay City since Laura has been involved with the implementation of a GIS audit, maintaining the GIS data through field collection, to the release of ArcGIS Online to field staff. From , Laura worked as a GIS Specialist and Environmental and Land Use Planner for URS Corporation in Raleigh, North Carolina. Rosemary Anger, GISP, MAAO - Barry County Rosemary Anger is the GIS Technician & Property Appraiser with Barry County Land Information Service where she maintains all county GIS layers in addition to duties as assigned in the equalization process. She has a MA in Geography from Western Michigan University and puts that to good use teaching freshman geography at Kellogg Community College. Most recently, she won the 2018 Frank Moss Literary Award from the Michigan Assessor Association which is presented to the author of articles adjudged to contribute the most toward the improvement of assessment administration. Rebecca Brandt - Bay County Rebecca Brandt is the Manager of Bay County Mosquito Control, a county-wide millage-supported program for the control of mosquitoes to reduce the risk of mosquito-transmitted diseases and nuisance mosquitoes. She also currently serves as President of the Michigan Mosquito Control Association, a non-profit professional association promoting the control of mosquitoes through educational and scientific approaches. Jeremy Clark - SVSU Jeremy Clark is a student attending Saginaw Valley State University. He will be graduating in December with a major in geography and a minor in business, as well as a certification in GIS. Michael Cousins - OHM Michael Cousins is the Practice Leader for GIS at OHM Advisors. He graduated from Michigan State University with a B.S. in Geography with a Specialization in Spatial Information Processing. He has been using GIS for over a dozen years now. Mike is a Certified GIS Professional (GISP) and has been with OHM Advisors for 5 years. Mike specializes in the areas of GIS, asset management, augmented reality (AR) applications and other innovative technologies. Stephan Currie - MAC On January 1, 2017, Stephan Currie became MAC s fourth executive director since Currie began his service at MAC as deputy director in As deputy director, Currie led MAC s daily operations, plus spurred new initiatives such as CoPro+, a collaborative purchasing program for public entities. Currie also has led a new program where MAC is assisting Wayne County with modernizing its procurement efforts. In September 2017, Currie was named the Strategic Association Leader for 2017 by the Michigan Society of Association Executives. Prior to joining MAC, Currie was operations manager at Comfort Research in Grand Rapids. He graduated from Hope College with a degree in business administration and has an MBA from Michigan State University. Nathan Fazer - Midland County Nathan Fazer is the GIS Technician for Midland County. Nathan graduated from NMU in 2006 with a degree in Community Planning. Nathan spent 9 years with the EUPRPDC in Sault Ste. Marie as a Planner and GIS Coordinator and 2 years with CUPPAD in Escanaba before moving to Midland. Nathan has been on the MiCAMP Board of Directors since Trevor Floyd - St. Clair County Trevor Floyd has a BA in Environmental Science from Alaska Pacific University and has served as GIS Analyst for St. Clair County over the last 20 Years. Also serving the GIS Community as a member of the MiCAMP Board since 2001 and presenting at numerous MiCAMP and IMAGIN and local user conferences over the past two decades.

6 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS Adele Gardner - Detroit Public Schools Adele Gardner, Detroit Public Schools Community District Police Department is a Certified Cyber Security Professional and Certified Cyber Security Trainer with extensive training and work experience with juvenile crime intelligence for the Detroit Public School Community District. As an Undercover Police Officer, she knows how the student use social media to communicate and organize for events so systems can be developed to prevent acts of violence. Paige Gebhardt - Michigan DNR Paige Gebhardt graduated from MSU in December 2016 with a degree in Human Geography and minor in GIS. She has been working as a GIS Analyst in the Michigan Department of Natural Resources since January Her work focuses on ArcGIS Online administration, content creation and management, GIS software support for the department, and helping others acclimate to ArcGIS Pro. Robert Guiliani - MMCC Bob and his wife, Linda, own Guys & Dolls Photography Studio and Reflections of Nature Art Gallery in Clare, MI. Bob is past president of: Michigan Photographic Society, Professional Photographers of Michigan, Northern Michigan Professional Photographers, Isle Royale & Keweenaw Parks Association, Clare Chamber of Commerce, Wildlife Recover Association, and former editor of Michigan Audubon s Jack- Pine Warbler magazine. He teaches photography at Mid Michigan Community College. He is a Master Photographer, Photographic Craftsman, and holds a BA and MA degree in chemistry. He has given programs at various conventions and has lead workshops to many locations, including Alaska, Isle Royale National Park and Iceland. His portrait and nature photographs have received National, State and Local Awards and has had images published in various magazines. Brooks Kelley - InfoGeographics, Inc. Brooks E. Kelley is a Senior Consultant with InfoGeographics in Traverse City. He is a career GIS professional with over 25 years of applied GIS experience. His areas of expertise are spatial databases, data abstraction, modelling, and automation. He also likes bicycles. David Kirwin, MCAO - BS&A David Kirwin is a Training Representative at BS&A Software and is the assessor for Big Rapids Township and the City of St. Louis. TJ Kunde - Bay City T.J. Kunde is the GIS Coordinator for the City of Bay City s Department of Public Works. He graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a degree in Biology and attended Central Michigan University for Geographic Information Science. He has instructed courses in GIS and remote sensing and worked as the Director of GIS for Steuben County Indiana. In his current role for The City of Bay City he is working to help others utilize their GIS data to get work done more efficiently. Kelly Pilarski - Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe Kelly Pilarski - Kelly s love for being outdoors and exploring new places is what brought her to this profession. Her undergrad work was in Earth Science and Natural Resource conservation. That is where she found the world of Geographic Information Science (GIS). Later she received her Masters in GIS from Central Michigan University. Soon after she began work at ESRI in Redlands California, in the Military division. There she traveled around the US training Military application of GIS. A longing for Michigan, and all it had to offer, brought her back to her home state. She returned to the home town of her alma mater and began work for the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe. That is where she found the perfect match of GIS and everything she loved about Michigan. There she could work discovering a piece of Michigan s history, helping to protect our natural resources, and truly put her GIS skills to good work. Randy Raymond - Detroit Public Schools Randy Raymond, GIS Specialist retire from administration in Detroit Public Schools in He has been consulting and collaborating with the Detroit Public Schools Community District on GIS implementation strategies and school safety activities. In collaboration with Officer Adele Gardner and DataCapable ( ) they are developing an advance social media listening system to help prevent acts of school violence.

7 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS Everett Root - CSS Everett Root is an Outreach Specialist with the State of Michigan, Center for Shared Solutions. He has been in this position since May of 2014 and has been with the State since His current position focuses on relationship management between the State and external customers in the areas of GIS and Information Technology with an emphasis on the State s imagery and Lidar program, MiSAIL. Laurie Spencer, MMAO - Leelanau County Laurie is Equalization/GIS Director for Leelanau County. She has been in the assessing field in various capacities for 41 years. A certified MMAO Assessor and a certified Personal Property Examiner, she is past president of the Northern Michigan Equalization Director s Association as well as past president of the Michigan Association of Equalization Director s Association. She is a certified instructor for the State Tax Commission. Laurie was the direct supervisor for the GIS setup in Presque Isle, Grand Traverse County and Leelanau County. She has overseen various GIS projects including enhanced 9-1-1, a county wide mapping project, emergency map books, parcel ownership layers, a karsts study, an impervious surface study, zoning maps, road centerline layer, intranet application, address point layer, framework project, among others. She received the Jim Living Geospatial Achievement Award in 2012, the MAA Distinguished Assessment Jurisdiction Award in 2015, and the Equalization Director of the Year Award in She has also been a speaker at various GIS conferences and seminars and served on the IMAGIN Board and MiCamp Board. Kathleen Weessies - MSU Kathleen Weessies has an MA in Geography from Western Michigan University and a MLS from Indiana University. She has been head of the Map Library at Michigan State University for 18 years and is also the Social Sciences Coordinator for MSU Libraries. Other Conference Speakers Chris Bessert, Kalamazoo County Mike Dagle, Oakland County Eric Kerney, Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi Touyo Scott, St. Clair County Tony Sauerbrey, Northwestern Michigan College Chris Brown, MangoMap Emily Selph, Charlevoix County

8 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 1:30 PM - 2 PM 2 PM - 4 PM 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM 6 PM - 8 PM 7 PM - CLOSE Early Check-In Meet the Vendors Wednesday Mixer Dinner Icebreaker THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 West Lobby Matterhorn C/D Matterhorn A/B Everett's or Trophy Room Trophy Room 7 AM - 8:30 AM 8 AM - 9 AM 9 AM - 10:15 AM 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM Breakfast Conference Check-In Plenary I: Steve Currie, MAC Break Matterhorn A/B West Lobby Matterhorn C/D ALBERG 1/3 10:45 AM - 12 Noon Hot Spot Analysis in Assessing: Laurie Spencer This session is intended to be an introduction to Hot Spot Analysis for assessors. Hot spot analysis seeks to identify statistically significant clusters of high (hot) and low (cold) values. Identifying these locations can provide valuable insight into geographic patterns within a community and provide a starting point for investigation by the assessor of the underlying processes that cause these patterns to emerge. 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM Simultanious vs. Sequential: Rose Anger Which came first? That is the question that every good surveyor must investigate before even entering the property. We will examine the idea that some boundaries are superior to other boundaries, how boundaries are prioritized in land surveying and the implications for unsurveyed parcel maintenance. 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM BS&A Updates: David Kirwin This session is designed as an overview of the tools many assessors use on a daily basis. Attendees will learn the tips and tricks and how to use features that most of us may not know about and how the tools can be integrated to work together to provide efficiency in work flows. BS&A will share some of the new fields that have been added and how they can be used. Updates on the new cost manuals will also be provided. Additionally, mobile technology options will be explored as well as showing how easily BS&A in integrated with Eagleview, APEX and KCI. ALBERG 2/4 10:45 AM - 11:20 AM Cartographic Collections: Chris Bessert 11:25 PM - 12 Noon MSU Geographic Library: Kathleen Weessies Learn about self-taught mapmaker John Farmer, who began his career by publishing a map for settlers in His maps contained extreme detail of every surveyed square mile, depicting every stream, swamp, and every road and trail in the state.. 1:30 PM - 2:05 PM GIS in Mosquito Control: Rebecca Brandt Four county-wide mosquito control programs exist in the State of Michigan. These districts have implemented GIS into their programs to increase efficiency and effectiveness of mosquito control in a variety of areas, including biological surveillance, the control of mosquitoes in the larval stage, the control of adult mosquitoes, and public education. 2:10 PM - 2:45 PM Getting The Most Out of Your GIS: Mike Dagle Is your community maximizing the use of spatial data? For 3 years, Oakland County has been using our GIS Roadshow process to help local government reimagine how GIS can solve business challenges. Come learn what we discovered by taking our GIS show on the road, and get introduced to a tool that tracks GIS maturity across your organization. 3:15 PM - 3:50 PM Introduction to Tribal GIS: Kelly Pilarski Join us as we provide an overview on the tribal wide GIS system at the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe. We will explore how the Tribe is using spatial data to support in the protection of heritage and environment, economic development, Tribal infrastructure, community health, land use, and natural resources management. 3:55 PM - 4:30 PM Mapping Mnomen - Wild Rice Restoration: Eric Kerney

9 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 MATTERHORN C/D 10:45 AM - 11:20 AM LiDAR 101 This panel discussion will focus on the basics of LiDAR collection, more specifically the data from the Federal Government (USGS, NRCS, USFS) and State of Michigan. The 101 discussion will include what end products you receive and how to work with the data within ArcGIS Pro. 11:25 PM - 12 Noon LiDAR 102 Continuing the discussion from 101, the 102 Discussion will focus on going beyond the base products and DEM: classifying point clouds, issues, and tips/tricks. 1:30 PM - 2:05 PM Municipal Electric GIS: Laura Anderson, Bay City We will see how the City of Bay City Electric Department s mapping has evolved into a complete GIS network. We will touch on how GIS is used by a wide variety of employees, using several different devices, for their individual tasks. DEMO THEATER Check out this new option to the MiCAMP Conference. Visit the Demo Theater in the Vendor Area to hear from various vendors on specific products and services they offer, or projects they have been involved with. The Demo Theater provides a bit more formal setting to talk with vendors and ask questions. 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM InfoGeographics, INC. 11:15 AM - 12 Noon PivotPoint 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Amalgam, LLC. 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM OHM Advisors 2:10 PM - 2:45 PM GIS in Utilities: TJ Kunde, Bay City DPW This session will focus on what is needed to create a fully functional GIS that is integrated into your everyday work flows, and provide an overview of how Bay City is using ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS for Server to get information to more people to better serve the community. 3:15 PM - 3:50 PM ArcGIS Pro 101 ArcGIS Pro is Esri s next-generation 64-bit desktop GIS and eventual replacement to the ArcMap suite. Learn from those that have been using Pro to find out what s different, what s the same, and some tips and tricks. The 101 session will be presented by InfoGeographics, Inc. and will focus on the look and feel of Pro, where existing tools are, and some of the new tools and features. 3:55 PM - 4:30 PM ArcGIS Pro 102 Continuing from the 101 session, the 102 session will focus on some of the enhancements in Pro, as well as some of the current drawbacks. THURSDAY EVENING ACTIVITIES 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM 6:30 PM - 8 PM 8 PM - CLOSE Vendor Reception Dinner Thursday Night Mixer Matterhorn A/B Everett's Snowflake Lounge

10 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 8 AM - 9:00 AM Breakfast 9 AM - 10:15 AM Plenary II: State of Michigan 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM Break 12 Noon - 1:00 PM Lunch/MiCamp Board Meeting Matterhorn A/B Matterhorn C/D Stein Eriksen's ALBERG 1/3 MATTERHORN C/D 10:45 AM - 11:20 AM Student Project: Jeremy Clark, SVSU As an intern with Bay County, Jeremy Clark worked on a project to perform an analysis of the publicly owned wetlands throughout Bay County, using GIS to demonstrate this. The goal of this project was to determine the value of tax exempt, publicly owned wetlands to understand to contributions made by Bay County to conserve such wetlands. 11:25 PM - 12 Noon Detroit Public School Safety & GIS The Cyber Alert School Safety system, developed in collaboration with DataCapable ( ), that makes it possible for school systems and municipalities to listen to Social Media feeds to identify potential threats against students and schools. The CASS system also allows individuals the opportunity to make anonymous tips about potential dangers and threats. 10:45 AM - 11:20 AM UAV Program: Tony Sauerbrey, NMC 11:25 PM - 12 Noon Drone Training Preview: Bob Guiliani, MMCC Predictions that in the next few years the drone market opportunities will become a $100 billion industry has gotten the attention of many. Bob Guiliani will present a short informational program about the rapidly growing field of drones and FAA regulations when flying them. He teaches an Intro to suas (small Unmanned Aircraft Systems) at Mid Michigan College. He will have his DJI Phantom at the presentation along with the drone that participants in the MMC class receive. AURORA ALBERG 2/4 10:45 AM - 11:20 AM MangoMap: AGO Alternative: Chris Brown, MangoMap Emily Delph, Charleoix County 10:45 PM - 12 Noon Higher Education Roundtable Discussion Engage in discussion with several higher education entities about the current skill sets students are learning versus what employers and those hiring are looking for, along with other topics. 11:25 PM - 12 Noon DNR Story Maps: Paige Gebhardt, MDNR Learn how the DNR has started using story maps in the last year to teach the public and share the DNR s story. See examples of DNR story maps and learn tips and tricks from the creator.

11 VENDOR AREA MAP Amalgam, LLC Anderwylde LLC Axis Geospatial BS&A Software EagleView Engineering Supply and Imaging Fleis & VandenBrink Engineering FTC&H Hubbell, Roth & Clark Inc. InfoGeographics, Inc. Latitude Geographics Group Michigan Surveyors Supply OHM PivotPoint A SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL OUR SUPPORTING VENDORS Precision Laser & Instrument, Inc. Prein & Newhof Sanborn Mapping TopComp TriMedia Environmental & Engineering Tunnel Vision Pipeline Services Wightman & Associates Williams Aerial & Mapping Thanks to Engineering Supply & Imaging for printing this year's conference program, and to Esri for the creation of MiCAMP's AGO account.

12 THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING THE 2018 MICAMP GIS CONFERENCE. WE HOPE TO SEE YOU IN 2019!