Fall 2010 Northwest Arkansas/River Valley GIS Users Group Meeting, Second Street Live! Performing and Visual Arts Center, 101 N. 2nd St., Fort Smith, AR
September 23rd, 2010
http://www.secondstreetlive.com/

Agenda

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.: Registration and Reception.
Refreshments provided by EFS GeoTechnologies, Monticello, Ark.

9:00 a.m. – 9:20 a.m.: Opening Remarks and Welcome
Gary Campbell, Vice-Mayor and At-Large Director, Fort Smith Board of Directors ; Jayne Hughes, Director, Central Business Improvement District

9:20 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.: BSAT Degree-The GIS Connection
Dr. Argie Nichols, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith

9:40 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.: Using GIS to Locate New Value
Dan Cypert, Washington County Assessor’s Office

10:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.: Conway Corp, an approach to Electric Enterprise GIS
Chris Boudreaux & James Rains, Conway Corp

10:20 a.m. – 10:40 a.m.: BREAK

10:40 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.:  Arkansas Game and Fish Web GIS
Tracy Moy, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission

11:00 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.: Recent CAST Research I
Brian Culpepper/Staff from Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, UA-Fayetteville

11:20 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.: AGIO Update
Shelby Johnson, Arkansas Geographic Information Office (AGIO)

11:40 a.m. – Noon: Arkansas GIS Users Forum Update
Bill Sneed, USGS

Noon – 1:20 p.m.: LUNCH
Lunch provided by Arkansas  GIS Users Forum

1:20 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.: Pine Bluff Uses Web GIS to Track Crime
Russell Gibson, City of Fort Smith, Ark.

1:40 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.: What’s new in ArcGIS 10
Ed Crane, ESRI

2:00 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.: Recent CAST Research II
Brian Culpepper/Staff from Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, UA-Fayetteville

2:20 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.: BREAK

2:40 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.:  Benton County GIS
Benton County GIS Staff

3:00 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.: Fort Smith GIS
Russell Gibson/Jeff Fears, City of Fort Smith, Ark.

3:20 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.: CLOSING REMARKS/OPEN FORUM

DIRECTIONS to Second Street Live!, 101 North 2nd St.

http://www.secondstreetlive.com/

FROM THE EAST:

I-40 West to Exit 7 (I-540/Hwy. 71, Van Buren/Ft. Smith) I-540 to Exit 6 (Grand Ave.) Take a right onto Grand Avenue and follow to 10th Street Take a left onto 10th Street and follow to Garrison Ave Take a right onto Garrison Ave and follow to 2nd Street At the Ferris Wheel, take a right onto 2nd Street and turn immediately right into the public parking lot.

The theater is on the left at the intersection of 2nd Street and “A” Street

FROM THE WEST:

Take I-40 East to Exit 325 (Hwy.64, Roland/Ft. Smith). Take a right onto Hwy. 64 East. Approximately six miles down the highway you will cross the river into downtown Ft. Smith onto Garrison Avenue. At the end of the bridge, take an immediate left onto 2nd Street. The public parking lot is on your immediate right before you get to “A” Street. The theater is across “A” Street on the left.

FROM THE SOUTH:

Follow Hwy.71 North to Fort Smith where it will turn into Business. Follow Hwy. 71-Business, which will eventually turn into Towson Avenue, into the downtown area to Garrison Avenue. Take a left onto Garrison Avenue and follow to 2nd Street. Take a right onto 2nd Street, and the public parking lot is on your immediate right before you get to “A” Street. The theater is across “A” Street on the left.

Agenda and directions courtesy of Russell Gibson.