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MINNESOTA GIS/LIS CONSORTIUM TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE & WORKSHOPS Golden Rock State Highway 61 WreckWreck ofof thethe MadeiraMadeira 47.20619447.206194 SunkSunk onon NovemberNovember 28,28, 19051905 -91.357349-91.357349 Bow Stern Pilot House Mid-Section The Madeira was lost on November 28, 1905 during what is now known as the Mataafa Storm. At the time it sank, it was being towed by the steamer ‘William Edenborn’. The captain of the William Edenborn decided to cut the ship loose in the 70+ mile per hour winds, and once free, the ship drifted toward the shore, striking the rocks and sinking in the shadow of Golden Rock. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. OCTOBER 26-28, 2016 DULUTH ENTERTAINMENT /LIS CONSO Split Rock Lighthouse IS RT Split Rock Lighthouse G I U N M EstablishedEstablished 19101910 & CONVENTION CENTER M DULUTH D U A L T UT SO MINNESOTA H, MINNE Contents Welcome .......................................................................3 Acknowledgements ......................................................4 Keynote Speakers ........................................................5 GIS/LIS Consortium Awards .........................................9 Students.....................................................................13 Workshop and Session Schedule ...............................17 Poster and Web Map Gallery..................................26 Entertainment ........................................................ 27 Session, Poster and Web Map Abstracts ...............29 Conference Exhibitors ................................................57 DECC Maps.................................................................63 Conference Schedule At-A-Glance ...............Back Cover #mngislis16| #YourGeospatialDestiny | @mngislis | Fb.com/mngislis Welcome to the 2016 MN GIS/LIS Conference and Workshops WELCOME On behalf of the Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium Board of We also thank the students who have joined us. You are Directors and the Conference Planning Committee, I welcome the “us” of the future. You are just starting your geospatial you to the 26th Annual Minnesota GIS/LIS Conference and destiny like many of us did in years past. As I have told Workshops. After a very successful conference last year many people, I am here because of David Brandt from it will be hard to match that, but the conference planning Washington County. I was in college when I first meet David; committee worked many hours to make this conference the he taught me a lot in a short time. He helped form my best it could be. We have over 90 sessions with over 100 geospatial destiny. As a GIS Community, that is what we are presenters for our two days and we have 17 workshops here to do. So I encourage our members to stop and talk for people to enjoy. Everything that is taught or presented with a student if you see one. — whether in a session or workshop — shows you how talented our GIS Community in Minnesota really is. Like I said, For the second year, we welcome K-12 Educators from the planning committee worked hard on this conference; I across Minnesota to our conference. On Wednesday we have would like to thank each and every one of you for your work. over 60 educators attending workshops and sessions about Not just the individuals but the organizations they work for geospatial technology and how to utilize it in the classroom. allowing them to spend hours on planning the conference. All of this couldn’t have happen without the help of Scott With a theme of “Your Geospatial Destiny,” I wanted to find Freburg and others at the Department of Education. something different for our keynote. I think I accomplished Lastly, thank you to the Board of Directors for everything my goal. I welcome Carrie Sowden, the Archaeological you do for our membership. To our members, thank you. Director at The Peachman Lake Eire Shipwreck Research Without you, none of this could happen. If you are interested Center, as our Thursday keynote. On Friday we will get to in helping the consortium (whether being on the board or hear about a long journey that took place back in the early planning events, etc.) stop by the MN GIS/LIS Consortium 1980s from Dana Starkell with his presentation titled “Paddle Booth in the vendor hall and talk with current and past board to the Amazon.” members. What is “Your Geospatial Destiny”? What does that mean Ryan Stovern, GISP to you? Over the past 26 years we have seen a lot of 2016 Conference Chair things as an organization (though I have only been around since 2006, but not a fully active member until 2009). One thing always brings us together — and that is our annual geospatial destiny, the fall conference and workshops. I chose this theme for that very reason: it is our destiny to promote what we do as an organization. Our mission is to develop and support the GIS professionals in Minnesota to benefit our state and the citizens of Minnesota. As we do every year, we give awards to people who have a full understanding about their geospatial destiny. I would like to congratulate our award winners this year — Michelle Trager, Geoff Maas and Marty Mitchell — all recipients of the Polaris Leadership Award. Without these folks, we wouldn’t be where we are today. 2016 Conference Committee Kitty Hurley Leah Sperduto Aaron Menza Jackie Kovarik Michelle Trager Andrew King-Scribbins Jake Rodel Molly Shoberg Ashley Ignatius Jane Mueller (VICE CHAIR) Rebecca Foster Carolyn Adams Jared Hovi Ryan Bergstrom Eric Kopras Jeff Storlie Ryan Stovern (CHAIR) Geoff Maas Kelvin Maki Scott Freburg Gerry Sjerven Kiah Sagami Stacey Stark Heidi Gaedy Kim Sundeen Tami Maddio 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 2016 Board of Directors Sponsors Tami Maddio Chair ddms, Inc. Scott Freburg Chair-Elect Moore Engineering Heather Albrecht Past Chair Ex-officio North Point Geographic Solutions Tim Loesch Treasurer Pictometry Leah Sperduto Secretary Pro-West & Associates, Inc. Ryan Stovern Conference Chair RESPEC Jane Mueller Conference Chair-Elect WSB & Associates, Inc. Gerry Sjerven Past Conference Chair Stacey Stark Higher Education Zeb Thomas State Government Eric Kopras Local Government Brandon Tourtelotte Private Sector Andrew King-Scribbins At-Large Ewald Consulting Dan Ross MnGeo Ex-officio We would like to thank the staff at Ewald Consulting who help the Minnesota GIS/ LIS Consortium and its Board of Directors in the administration, logistics and management of this conference. In the following pages we’ve listed past members of the In 1988, the Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium got its start as Board of Directors, plus Polaris and Lifetime award winners. one of the nation's first forums to communicate and share Without the leadership and dedication of these individuals, information among the growing community of environmental the Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium would not have survived and natural resource geographic information system users the first 25 years. and data producers in Minnesota. The Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Land Management Information In 2015, the Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium was honored Center (LMIC), the University of Minnesota’s Center for to be selected for a Governor’s Geospatial Commendation Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) and Natural Resource Award. The awards recognize organizations that have “gone Research Institute (NRRI), along with other key participants, the extra mile” to deliver products and services resulting in organized an "Executive Steering Committee" to get the a more responsive government, promoting public access effort started. to information and reflecting the benefits of working in a collaborative environment that encourages similar efforts in Initially, the group was named Minnesota Natural Resource the future. Geographic Information Systems (NRGIS) Consortium. In 1990, the Steering Committee unanimously voted to change the group’s name to the Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium and the first state-wide conference was held. In 1992, the Consortium incorporated as a state and federally- recognized non-profit run by a Board of Directors elected by the members, thus creating the basic structure of the Consortium that still exists today. 4 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS KEYNOTE SPEAKERS KEYNOTE 8:30 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016 time Dana returned to the top with the third set of chocolate Carrie Sowden shakes, his recently acquired fear of climbing was history. Archaeological Director Peachman Lake Erie Shipwreck Research Center Nearly every summer the trio would take long canoe trips MAST Coordinator — primarily around the lakes of southern Ontario, and a few Carrie Sowden graduated from times in the remote lakes of northern Manitoba. The longest Emory University with a BS in of these trips lasted a month and was planned specifically to Chemistry; after deciding against prepare for their voyage from Canada to Brazil. Specifically, medical school, she entered they wanted to test the food-carrying capacity of their canoe, Texas A&M University. She physical endurance and their ability to be self-sufficient for at graduated from the Nautical least one month at a time. Archaeology Program there with a Master of Arts in Anthropology. Her areas of specialty are historical A year after completing high school, Dana undertook the archaeology and waterlogged artifact conservation. During now famous two-year canoe trip his father had been planning her career as a nautical archaeologist, she has worked on since Dana was 9 years old. Altogether, they paddled shipwreck projects in Maine, Florida, Alabama,