GeoTools Ten Years Later! & The Coastal Services Center at 15!

1. GeoTools Ten Years Later!&The Coastal Services Center at15! Anne Hale Miglarese

2. Celebrating the past • Acknowledging our accomplishments • Identifying some of the challenges and opportunities of the future

3. BUT FIRSTWe must acknowledge the people

4. Serious guys aren’t they?

5. Every now and then they relax

7. Hamilton on his lunch break in the halls of the Center?

8. Just another day at the office for Tony

9. Exactly how do you get paid to do this?

10. Girls, girls, girls

11. Leadership!

12. Celebrating our Success • The Coastal Services Center has driven 15 years of innovation and collaboration within this community by staying true and focused on the mission: “Linking people, information and technology in the coastal zone” • Coastal GeoTools has given this community a sense of common identify, an opportunity to share technology and methods and a forum to develop creative solutions • The Coastal Services Center has a sought out and developed true partnerships that are based upon a common set of goals and mutual respect for others roles and missions.

13. Celebrating our Success • Positive relationships and productive partnerships with: • Coastal state and local resource management organizations • CSO, NSGIC, NACO, APA, TNC and many, many other organizations • Other Federal agencies • FEMA, USGS, DHS, NASA, Army COE, FGDC • The private sector

14. Celebrating our Success • The fifth meeting of GeoTools • Over 300 participants • The Digital Coast • Coastal Change Analysis Program, baseline completed • LiDAR for the Coast • LDART • Data analysis tools • Training programs • Political change • Policy changes • People

15. Celebrating our Success • Solution Development in: • Community resiliency • Natural hazard modeling • Ecological modeling • Adaptive management • Human dimensions • Habitat change • Coastal erosion

16. A Rapidly Changing Landscape • The speed of technological innovation is astounding • Geospatial is a BIG business with new drivers • Navteq, Tom Tom, Garmin, MSFT, Google • Changing relationships in who buys the data • New public drivers, missions, institutions and applications

17. Where are we going, what lays ahead – the challenge • Our problems are not technical • We need to be understood and thrive within our own home/organizations. • In general we do not succeed as stand alone departments • Trend is the integration of geospatial into the IT backbone/enterprise of the organization. • Facilitates mission alignment • Consistent funding • Improves service delivery

18. Where are we going, what lays ahead – the challenge • Our efforts require long term strategies the maximize the value to the whole of our organizations and in support of the mission requirements. • We need to do a better job of articulating our value proposition • We need to quit trying to educate decision makers on the details of the technology and speak to the benefits • Why we matter, how we support solution development • What is our return on investment

19. Where are we going, what lays ahead – the challenge • We need to develop strong proactive coalitions that speak to our priorities with a common voice. • The Digital Coast • Fifty States Initiative • NSGIC , NACO & OGC participation • The Coalition of Geospatial Organizations (COGO)

20. The Challenge • Focus on clear communication and organizational strategies • Focus on our impact in enabling better solutions • Focus on the business case • Participate in the policy debate

21. The Opportunity“Bridging the Gap between Science and Management” • Climate change • Resilient communities • Homeland security along our coasts • Alternative energy • Conservation planning • Location based services • Etc……