Hotel Accomodations
The conference is being held at Tan-Tar-A Resort and Spa in Osage Beach, Missouri. The rate is $72.00 plus applicable taxes for 1-4 people. Please make your reservation directly with Tan-Tar-A. For details on accommodations and reservations, call 1-800-826-8272 or 573-348-3131. There are still rooms available in the room block. Be sure to mention that you are attending the Missouri GIS Conference to receive the discounted group rate. Note!! The room block ends January 18th. Please make your hotel reservations quickly to take advantage of the conference rates!
Sponsors
Missouri GIS Advisory Committee
Missouri Spatial Data Information Service
Missouri State Geographic Information Office
Contacts
Presentation Submissions
Colin Duewell 573-522-8465
Poster Submissions
Liz Cook 573-876-9396
Exhibitor Information
Jim LaScala 816-305-2808
Conference Chair
Tony Spicci 573-882-9909x3295
Keynote Speakers
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Lynn Dupont, New Orleans RPC
Lynn was asked to keynote the 2009 conference because of the both informative and interesting keynote she gave at the March, 2007 MAGIC Homeland Security workshop - hosted by the MARC offices in Kansas City. Her experiences (with slides) in the wake of Hurricane Katrina have generated many interesting - and at times - entertaining - thoughts on how people actually work together during such a crisis.
Since 1999 Lynn Dupont has been employed at the Regional Planning Commission of New Orleans as principal planner and GIS Manager handling enhancement projects, land use studies and data integration in the region. Her emphasis has been in working with State and Federal agencies in procuring usable data for use at the local level. Her motto is, "the State and Feds get what they need if they help the locals build it." She represents Planning and Development Districts on the Louisiana GIS Council and has been an active participant in ortho-imagery standards, contracting and procurement. She is past-president of LA URISA (Urban and Regional Information Systems Association). She is also an adjunct instructor for the University of New Orleans Geography Department teaching GIS Theories and Concepts.
Lynn is a licensed landscape architect and graduate of the University of Georgia. After many years working in the physical design of subdivisions and retirement communities augmented with basic commercial, industrial and military site design in Virginia Beach and Charlotte Lynn returned to her native New Orleans where she earned a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from the University of New Orleans. Her graduate work included completion of the Geography Masters work in remote sensing and GIS at UNO. She received certificates for Erdas Imagine software and ESRI ArcGIS software while working as an image analyst at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis specializing in precision agriculture and land cover analysis.
She received the 2004 Louisiana American Planning Association Award for incorporating multi-modal transportation and site improvements in a newly emerging Museum District in the CBD and received the distinguished leadership award for a professional planner in 2007 for the multi-agency ortho-imagery project post-Katrina/Rita incorporating partnerships at the federal, state and local levels.
Lynn has two daughters who refuse to make maps. One is a senior at the University of Texas, Austin, and the younger will be attending Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
Tim Haithcoat, Missouri's State Geographic Information Officer
Timothy L. Haithcoat has 23 years experience developing and managing geospatial technologies in both the research arena of the University of Missouri (MU) and applied environments in support of the missions and mandates of the State of Missouri and the Nation. He is currently Missouri's State Geographic Information Officer (Missouri Office of Administration, Information Technology Services Division). He is also the Director of Missouri's NSDI Clearinghouse (MSDIS) as well as an applied research laboratory called the Geographic Resources Center within the Department of Geography at MU. He is Deputy Director of the Center for Geospatial Intelligence within the College of Engineering. He has served as co-chair and member on numerous state and national committees regarding geospatial information architecture. A major focus of his current efforts in statewide geospatial development and architecture is in the realm of mapping and analysis support for emergency management and homeland security application areas.
