Spring NEARC 2026

Spring NEARC 2026

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7:30am EDT

Breakfast and Visit Exhibitors Auditorium Registration Opens Concourse

8:30am EDT

Welcome & Keynote: How Spatial Analysis Can Support Ecosystem Management: A Case Study With Invasive Species AuditoriumDr. Bethany Bradley

9:45am EDT

Break, Visit Sponsors, & View Posters Concourse

10:15am EDT

Leveraging AGOL Applications for Climate Adaptation Room 174Jeff Amero • Katie Grillo Making Data Visualizations Accessible Across the ArcGIS Platform Room 163Claire Smith Working with Overture Maps in ArcGIS Pro: Workflows, QA, and POI Conflation Room 168Brian Hebert Connecticut’s New GIS Parcel Data Creation Guidance and Specifications AuditoriumAlfredo Herrera Advancing GIS with UAS Room 165Dave Price

10:45am EDT

Equitable Climate Resilience: A GIS Approach to Protecting Vulnerable Communities with NbS Room 174Cate Arnold ArcGIS Field Maps Tasks: Improving Field Coordination Room 163Tom Schwartzman Novel Strategies for Arcade-based Automation Room 168Colin Bergmann GIS Tools for Connecticut’s Housing Growth Plan Requirements AuditoriumSarah Hurley

11:15am EDT

From Mandates to Maps: Leveraging GIS and Web Mapping to Communicate Locally Relevant Climate Risks and Inform Climate Change Adaptation Room 174Jonnell Robinson Demystifying Digital Twins in GIS Room 163Clarissa Paz BETA Group, Inc.’s Snow Route Optimization Program Room 168Isaiah Spencer Beyond the Blueprint - Transforming Plan Review with Embedded GIS. AuditoriumNancy Aguirre

12:00pm EDT

Lunch, Visit Sponsors, & View Posters Auditorium

1:15pm EDT

From Scan to System: Enabling Predictive Asset Management Through BIM–GIS Integration Room 168Amanda Falkner From Questions to Solutions: How AI Assistants Revolutionize GIS Tasks Room 163Tom Schwartzman Lightning Talks AuditoriumHyun Joong Kim • Forrest Bowlick • Yves De Jesus • Sonam Sah • Arev Kaligian Advancements in the USGS StreamStats Web Application for Delineation of Urban Watersheds Room 174Laura Luongo Women in GIS (WiGIS) Room 165Katie Grillo

1:45pm EDT

Using ArcGIS Dashboards to Manage Outreach and Construction for an LSLR Program Room 168Nicholas Werner • Jack Dennison Automating GIS Workflows with ArcGIS Workflow Manager Room 163Christopher Bast • Mark Bowen It takes a village: making GIS accessible AuditoriumAlexandra Wolfe • Elaine Brewer • Erica Poisson Making a Water Connection: 3DHP and Stormwater Room 174Tom Mueller

2:15pm EDT

From Spreadsheets and GIS Layers to an Active, Scalable Geospatial Asset Management Program Room 168John Diaz Enabling Your Organization with Real-Time GIS Room 163Tom Schwartzman GIS-Driven ADA Transition Planning: Designing Schema, Collecting Data, Delivering Deficiencies AuditoriumBrett Barnard Remapping our Nation’s streams: How the USGS 3D Hydrography Program (3DHP) supports New England Room 174Adam Benthem

2:45pm EDT

Break, Visit Sponsors, & View Posters Concourse

3:15pm EDT

Solving Business System Integration Challenges with GIS Room 163Mark Bowen GIS Has Grown Up. Our Roles Haven’t. Room 168Michelle Toner MassDOT Aeronautics Overview AuditoriumSinan Abood Validation of Ocean Color Satellite Products (Sentinel-2) over the Banana River AERONET-OC Site Room 174Kalu Okigwe Field Data Collection Fundamentals: A Beginner's Guide to Field Mapping with High Accuracy GPS Room 165David Grafton

3:45pm EDT

Tapping into Content: Exploring the Living Atlas Room 163Matthew Deal Strategically Planning the Regional GIS Hub at UMass - Amherst: Survey Results and Paths Forward Room 168Forrest Bowlick • Joseph Kopera • Priya Sankali Turning Infrastructure Records into Usable GIS AuditoriumNic Peterson Rhode Island Stone Wall Mapping Project Room 174Elliot Vosburgh

4:15pm EDT

Streamlining Mapping and Analysis Workflows with GeoAI Room 163Clarissa Paz From Street-Level Imagery to GIS-Ready Data: How Computer Vision Builds Infrastructure Inventories AuditoriumAJ Laiosa Modeling Salt Marsh Migration In The Northeastern USA Using Remote Sensing & Geospatial Analysis Room 174Atticus Scott

4:45pm EDT

Closing Session Auditorium

5:00pm EDT

Mappy Hour Networking Social & Poster Awards UMass Upub

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