<div dir="ltr"><div>** TODAY ** TODAY ** TODAY **<br><br></div><div>The State of the State using GIS and much, much more! <br>You don't want to miss this - Gar has been on the frontier of GIS developments over his 200-year career <font size="1">(in base 4)</font>!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">SPEAKER: Gar Clarke - NM Geospatial Information Officer<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">TIME: 12:30p<br>LOCATION: 1600 Lena St. Suite D1 map: <a href="https://bit.ly/SimtableOffice" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/SimtableOffice</a> </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br>Pizza will be available for $10 or bring your own lunch/wine/beer</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br>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 class="gmail_quote"><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 class="gmail_quote"><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><div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid 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