Wedtech Lecture Tomorrow (Wed): Gar Clarke - NM Geospatial Information Officer (and all around expert GIS veteran)

[Stephen Guerin-5]

SPEAKER: Gar Clarke - NM Geospational Information Officer

TIME: 12:30p

LOCATION: https://bit.ly/SimtableOffice

Pizza will be available for $10 or bring your lunch/wine/beer

Gar Clarke is the New Mexico Geospatial Information Officer (GIO) for the State Department of
Information Technology (NM DoIT). As GIO he chairs the NM DoIT Geospatial Advisory Committee
(GAC) consisting of federal, state, local, and private interests. GAC convenes to assess standards, assist
in state purchasing agreements, coordinate data steward agreements, identify funding opportunities,
and build collaborative data acquisition projects. Previously, he was the Geospatial Information
Technology Coordinator for the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer (NMOSE) and was charged
with building an Enterprise solution that provided for water rights management statewide. In addition,
with the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico he built an intra departmental distributed Geographic
Information System (GIS) that won an international award for excellence. While under the
employment of a regional government council in the northwest he coordinated the development of a
large multi-million dollar GIS based ground water management program that straddled two states. In
1983 he assisted in the development and implementation of the first GIS facility within the State of
New Mexico. Previous to that he was a state botanist who coordinated all field survey projects for the
Endangered Species Program in Hawai’i.

Mr. Clarke has managed or participated as the primary analyst in over 75 major projects which have
included internet access development, SCADA system implementation, transportation modeling, crime
analyses, plat retrieval systems, electoral reapportionment, land use evaluation, feasibility analysis,
population and employment forecasting, groundwater modeling, well head protection, aquifer
vulnerability, travel demand prediction, site suitability, terrain analysis, wildlife habitat monitoring,
natural resource risk assessment, and production mapping.

He has been active in a number of federal, regional, state, and local committees responsible for the
development of data standards, inventory procedure, distribution protocol, and assessment procedure
for geospatial information systems. He has presented a number of lectures and workshops on GIS
implementation and use of the technology. Professional training workshops he conducts for special
requests have been successful in providing users a working understanding of the technology and the
ability to use it immediately following the training. He has conducted over 100 workshops and training
seminars for special sessions, community colleges, and universities resulting in the training of
professionals interested in using Geospatial Technology

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[Stephen Guerin-5]

** TODAY ** TODAY ** TODAY **

The State of the State using GIS and much, much more!
You don't want to miss this - Gar has been on the frontier of GIS developments over his 200-year career (in base 4)!

SPEAKER: Gar Clarke - NM Geospatial Information Officer

TIME: 12:30p
LOCATION: 1600 Lena St. Suite D1   map: https://bit.ly/SimtableOffice  

Pizza will be available for $10 or bring your own lunch/wine/beer

Gar Clarke is the New Mexico Geospatial Information Officer (GIO) for the State Department of
Information Technology (NM DoIT). As GIO he chairs the NM DoIT Geospatial Advisory Committee
(GAC) consisting of federal, state, local, and private interests. GAC convenes to assess standards, assist
in state purchasing agreements, coordinate data steward agreements, identify funding opportunities,
and build collaborative data acquisition projects. Previously, he was the Geospatial Information
Technology Coordinator for the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer (NMOSE) and was charged
with building an Enterprise solution that provided for water rights management statewide. In addition,
with the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico he built an intra departmental distributed Geographic
Information System (GIS) that won an international award for excellence. While under the
employment of a regional government council in the northwest he coordinated the development of a
large multi-million dollar GIS based ground water management program that straddled two states. In
1983 he assisted in the development and implementation of the first GIS facility within the State of
New Mexico. Previous to that he was a state botanist who coordinated all field survey projects for the
Endangered Species Program in Hawai’i.

Mr. Clarke has managed or participated as the primary analyst in over 75 major projects which have
included internet access development, SCADA system implementation, transportation modeling, crime
analyses, plat retrieval systems, electoral reapportionment, land use evaluation, feasibility analysis,
population and employment forecasting, groundwater modeling, well head protection, aquifer
vulnerability, travel demand prediction, site suitability, terrain analysis, wildlife habitat monitoring,
natural resource risk assessment, and production mapping.

He has been active in a number of federal, regional, state, and local committees responsible for the
development of data standards, inventory procedure, distribution protocol, and assessment procedure
for geospatial information systems. He has presented a number of lectures and workshops on GIS
implementation and use of the technology. Professional training workshops he conducts for special
requests have been successful in providing users a working understanding of the technology and the
ability to use it immediately following the training. He has conducted over 100 workshops and training
seminars for special sessions, community colleges, and universities resulting in the training of

professionals interested in using Geospatial Technology

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