2009 IGIC Conference Poster Session Results

Congratulations to the winners of this year's poster session. Thank you for all of you who contributed a map or poster to fill the exhibit hall.

Student Category:
First Place: Mr. Fei Yang of Iowa State University for "Using VGI to Enhance Public Participation in the Planning Process".

Cartographic Category:
First Place: Mr. Jim Giglierano of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Geological Survey Bureau for "Surficial Geology of Cedar County, Iowa".
Second Place: Ms. Micah Cutler of Hardin County for "Iowa Falls School District Transportation Map".

Analytical Category:
First Place: Mr. Chris Seeger of ISU for "Community Walking Maps".
Second Place: Mr. Scott Larsen of UNI for "Ecological Niche Modeling of Potential West Nile Virus Vectors".

2009 IGIC Conference Exhibitors

Thank you to all of this year's exhibitors who helped to make the 2009 IGIC Conference a success! We would not be able to do it without you!

2009 IGIC Conference Award Recipients

Congratulations to the following award recipients. Enough can not be said about the three individuals who received awards at this year's conference and what they have done to further the cause of geospatial coordination in Iowa.

The Achievement & Contribution in GIS (A member that you feel is always in the mix, always producing and trying to serve Iowa's GIS community - a member that exemplifies what we want IGIC to be known for) was awarded to Mr. Jim Giglierano of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

The Project Energizer (given to an individual identified as continually putting out ideas, mobilizing people, and seeing it through to completion) was awarded to Mr. Chris Ensminger of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

The Networking Award (given to individual that best repeatedly make the connections the group needs) was awarded to Mr. Bob Lemen with the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

(l-r:   Jim, Bob & Chris)

We are a social bunch........

For those of you who are into that whole social networking phenomenon, there are a couple of different routes you can use to assist in getting your IGIC fix.

• The IGIC website - feel free to post your news and events on this trusted "community" driven website.
• The IGIC email list - if you're new to the group and want to catch up with what have been topics of interest to the Iowa GIS community - this archive goes back 3 years
• Facebook
• LinkedIn (search Groups for IGIC)
• We're thinking of a few other ways to keep in touch in the future so stay tuned.