[FRIAM] Wedtech Lecture Tomorrow (Wed): Gar Clarke - NM Geospatial Information Officer (and all around expert GIS veteran)

[Stephen Guerin]

SPEAKER: Gar Clarke - NM Geospational Information Officer
TIME: 12:30p
LOCATION: https://bit.ly/SimtableOffice

Pizza will be available for $10 or bring your lunch/wine/beer

Gar Clarke is the New Mexico Geospatial Information Officer (GIO) for the
State Department of
Information Technology (NM DoIT). As GIO he chairs the NM DoIT Geospatial
Advisory Committee
(GAC) consisting of federal, state, local, and private interests. GAC
convenes to assess standards, assist
in state purchasing agreements, coordinate data steward agreements,
identify funding opportunities,
and build collaborative data acquisition projects. Previously, he was the
Geospatial Information
Technology Coordinator for the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer
(NMOSE) and was charged
with building an Enterprise solution that provided for water rights
management statewide. In addition,
with the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico he built an intra departmental
distributed Geographic
Information System (GIS) that won an international award for excellence.
While under the
employment of a regional government council in the northwest he coordinated
the development of a
large multi-million dollar GIS based ground water management program that
straddled two states. In
1983 he assisted in the development and implementation of the first GIS
facility within the State of
New Mexico. Previous to that he was a state botanist who coordinated all
field survey projects for the
Endangered Species Program in Hawai’i.

Mr. Clarke has managed or participated as the primary analyst in over 75
major projects which have
included internet access development, SCADA system implementation,
transportation modeling, crime
analyses, plat retrieval systems, electoral reapportionment, land use
evaluation, feasibility analysis,
population and employment forecasting, groundwater modeling, well head
protection, aquifer
vulnerability, travel demand prediction, site suitability, terrain
analysis, wildlife habitat monitoring,
natural resource risk assessment, and production mapping.

He has been active in a number of federal, regional, state, and local
committees responsible for the
development of data standards, inventory procedure, distribution protocol,
and assessment procedure
for geospatial information systems. He has presented a number of lectures
and workshops on GIS
implementation and use of the technology. Professional training workshops
he conducts for special
requests have been successful in providing users a working understanding of
the technology and the
ability to use it immediately following the training. He has conducted over
100 workshops and training
seminars for special sessions, community colleges, and universities
resulting in the training of
professionals interested in using Geospatial Technology
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