<div dir="ltr"><div>SPEAKER: Gar Clarke - NM Geospational Information Officer</div><div>TIME: 12:30p<div>LOCATION: <a href="https://bit.ly/SimtableOffice">https://bit.ly/SimtableOffice</a></div><div><br></div><div>
Pizza will be available for $10 or bring your lunch/wine/beer</div><div><br></div><div>Gar Clarke is the New Mexico Geospatial Information Officer (GIO) for the State Department of<br>Information Technology (NM DoIT). As GIO he chairs the NM DoIT Geospatial Advisory Committee<br>(GAC) consisting of federal, state, local, and private interests. GAC convenes to assess standards, assist<br>in state purchasing agreements, coordinate data steward agreements, identify funding opportunities,<br>and build collaborative data acquisition projects. Previously, he was the Geospatial Information<br>Technology Coordinator for the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer (NMOSE) and was charged<br>with building an Enterprise solution that provided for water rights management statewide. In addition,<br>with the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico he built an intra departmental distributed Geographic<br>Information System (GIS) that won an international award for excellence. While under the<br>employment of a regional government council in the northwest he coordinated the development of a<br>large multi-million dollar GIS based ground water management program that straddled two states. In<br>1983 he assisted in the development and implementation of the first GIS facility within the State of<br>New Mexico. Previous to that he was a state botanist who coordinated all field survey projects for the<br>Endangered Species Program in Hawai’i.</div><div><br>Mr. Clarke has managed or participated as the primary analyst in over 75 major projects which have<br>included internet access development, SCADA system implementation, transportation modeling, crime<br>analyses, plat retrieval systems, electoral reapportionment, land use evaluation, feasibility analysis,<br>population and employment forecasting, groundwater modeling, well head protection, aquifer<br>vulnerability, travel demand prediction, site suitability, terrain analysis, wildlife habitat monitoring,<br>natural resource risk assessment, and production mapping.</div><div><br>He has been active in a number of federal, regional, state, and local committees responsible for the<br>development of data standards, inventory procedure, distribution protocol, and assessment procedure<br>for geospatial information systems. He has presented a number of lectures and workshops on GIS<br>implementation and use of the technology. Professional training workshops he conducts for special<br>requests have been successful in providing users a working understanding of the technology and the<br>ability to use it immediately following the training. He has conducted over 100 workshops and training<br>seminars for special sessions, community colleges, and universities resulting in the training of<br>professionals interested in using Geospatial Technology<br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>