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8:00am PDT

Check-In and Morning Refreshments Meydenbauer Center

8:30am PDT

Kayak-Based Citizen Science: Mapping Real-Time Water Temperature in Puget Sound with GIS 409Brian Footen Hexagon Content Program – off-the-shelf aerial ortho imagery and elevation data 403Rob Eadie A Tale of Two Experience Builders: Migrating Tacoma's Map Applications 401-402Alicia Bradshaw • Idalis Laboy Cintron The Notebook: [Python] has always been enough 407-408Jordan Carmona, GISP

9:00am PDT

Using GIS to calculate geomorphological change in a river system over time 409Katie Messick ‘My Job Would be Impossible Without GIS!’ GIS Makes the Impossible Possible 403Greg Babinski, MA, GISP, EthicalGEO Fellow The Power of Digital Twins: From Complex Data to Operational Insights. 401-402Mischa Hey Using Native SQL Geometry for Cloud-Ready, Lightning-Fast Overlays 407-408Fred Lott • Harkeerat Kang

9:30am PDT

Spatial patterns of foraging activity in endangered killer whales shift with changes in Chinook salmon abundance 409Kimberly Nielsen A GIS Workflow for 3D Printing Topographic Models 403Noah Flick Chehalis River Basin Early Flood Warning System - A Decision Support Tool 401-402Sarah Harvey, MGIS, GISP Covington Water District Chat Bot 407-408Shawn Buck • Dan Dulan

10:00am PDT

Break Time Meydenbauer Center

10:30am PDT

Advancing Spatial Data Collaboration for Ecosystem Recovery: An Overview of the PSEMP Spatial Data Work Group 409Tyson Z Waldo • Mike Leech A Journey of GIS Data Integration into an Asset Management System 407-408Eliud Flores Saenz Celestial Infrastructure: The History, Science, and Future of Global Satellite Positioning 403Noah Flick How to Build a Production App and ETL in One Week(ish) 401-402Bill Keller Dick Thomas Award Presentations 404-406DTA Finalists

11:00am PDT

Estimating the Climate Resiliency of WA Dairy Farms 409Michael Lowry

11:30am PDT

Rebuilding King County’s Open Data Platform for the Cloud Era 407-408Thomas Ryan • Mary Ullrich Connecting and Empowering Communities Through Map Guides to Inventory Trees Within Their Communities 403Nelson Pham Experience Builder: Beyond the Map 401-402Mary Phillips

12:00pm PDT

Annual WAGISA Business Meeting 401-402Taylor Dixon • Michelle Totman • Micah Gelber Lunch Meydenbauer Center

1:30pm PDT

Relationship Goals - Linking Construction Drawings to a Map 409Steve Schunzel, GISP New ArcHydro tools to facilitate connecting data to hydrography through linear referencing 401-402Joshua Greenberg Drone Panel - We Came, We Flew, We Mapped 407-408Jim Mudd • Peter Keum • Jesse Alton • Keisha Chinn • Ben Delyea • Alex Arams ArcGIS for Real-Time Winter Weather and Street Sweeping Operations 403TJ Abbenhaus

2:00pm PDT

Taking GIS into the Well: Building a Replicable Condition Assessment Framework with Survey123 409Max Sugarman Powering the Future: Mapping Solar Potential Across WSDOT Rights‑of‑Way 401-402Golnaz Badr, PhD, GISP

2:30pm PDT

Bringing Branch Editing to PostGIS/QGIS 409Roma Hicks Understanding post-truth GIS 403Gene Martin Beyond the Map: Immersive 360 Degree Imagery and Drone Mapping for Stream Restoration in the South Puget Sound 407-408Alex Arams Unlocking the Past to Empower the Future: Geo-Enabling WSDOT’s Statewide Real Estate Parcel Inventory 401-402Golnaz Badr, PhD, GISP

2:45pm PDT

Tree Canopy and Land Cover: Tacoma's GIS Approach 409Shawn Leonard

3:15pm PDT

Closing Plenary 404-406Taylor Dixon • Micah Gelber • Jennifer Radcliff

4:00pm PDT

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