[gis_info] Helping Out with PNW Wildfires

Thu Sep 7 11:42:18 PDT 2017

While I completely understand people's good intentions with wanting to
help with the effort to map wildfires, as a recently retired wildland GIS
specialist I can tell you it's a highly specialized task that follows
strict standard operating procedures. There is no time on an incident to
train anyone from scratch, and there is a pool of well-qualified GIS
Specialists among the agencies, as well as trainees who have learned the
basics before fire season starts. If you are wanting to contribute your
GIS skills right now, I would recommend jumping on volunteer and
crowdsourcing opportunities with GIS Corps. I've seen a few come up for
Hurricane Harvey this week. It's probably better if the agencies managing
wildfires are not inundated with offers of well-meaning help that they
don't need.

Thanks for your willingness to help!

Sephe Fox

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>    1. Re: Helping Out with PNW Wildfires (Aaron Paul)
>    2. NWGIS 2017 Boise Early Registration Extended (Davis, Linda)
>    3. Re: Helping Out with PNW Wildfires (Wayne, Chris)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 16:45:31 -0700
> From: Aaron Paul <aaronrpaul at comcast.net>
> To: Misty Mesaga <Misty.Mesaga at pgn.com>
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> Subject: Re: [gis_info] Helping Out with PNW Wildfires
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> All,
>
> Please limit your requests to Bobbi as I'm certain she is extremely busy
> right now.
>
> Thank you to all that want to assist,
>
> Aaron
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Sep 6, 2017, at 4:11 PM, Aaron Paul <aaronrpaul at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Misty,
>>
>> I work for the Office of Emergency Management.
>> I spoke with our public information officers.
>> They said to contact Bobbi Doan with ODF.
>> Here's her email contact info
>>
>> Bobbi.j.doan at oregon.gov
>>
>> She can at least point you in the right direction.
>> We appreciate your offer for assistance.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Aaron Paul
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Sep 6, 2017, at 12:30 PM, Misty Mesaga <Misty.Mesaga at pgn.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of any organizations or efforts to which I could lend
>>> a GIS/cartography hand in the fight against the regional wildfires? I?d
>>> love to chip in right now, apart from donating money to relief groups,
>>> and I?ve heard from a [very busy, very exhausted] firefighting friend
>>> that that sort of help could be used at the moment...just not sure
>>> where or how.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Misty M?saga
>>> Potelco | PGE GIS Designer
>>>
>>>
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> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 23:57:49 +0000
> From: "Davis, Linda" <Linda.Davis at idwr.idaho.gov>
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> As an after Labor Day, almost end of summer bonus,  early Registration for
> the 2017 NWGIS Conference has been extended to Friday September 15th.
> Register by 5pm (PDT), September 15th  and you can take advantage of the
> best rate.  Join us in Boise, October 9-13 at the  Boise Centre for the
> 2017 Northwest GIS Users Conference.  While the registration has been
> extended, the reduced room rate at The Grove Hotel is only being held
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> Northwest GIS User Group Conference to be eligible for the reduced rate.
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> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 17:22:29 -0700
> From: "Wayne, Chris" <chris_wayne at nps.gov>
> To: Aaron Paul <aaronrpaul at comcast.net>
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> Good point, Aaron.  Right now, at least down south, we're in a Catch-22.
> Every incident could use GIS assistance, but those coordinating the
> efforts
> are stretched to the limit.  On Crater Lake's fires we are on our third
> team already.  I'll check around and see if I can find a contact here.
> Thanks for the offer, Misty!
>
> Also, it would helpful to them if you have a quick list of your
> qualifications ready to share.  Not a resume, just a quick list of any
> emergency experience/training you've had-- fire, floods, SAR, etc.-- and
> your general GIS experience.  Any other quals like botany, archaeology,
> hydrology, aviation, etc. would be useful as well.
>
> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Aaron Paul <aaronrpaul at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> Please limit your requests to Bobbi as I'm certain she is extremely busy
>> right now.
>>
>> Thank you to all that want to assist,
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Sep 6, 2017, at 4:11 PM, Aaron Paul <aaronrpaul at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Misty,
>>
>> I work for the Office of Emergency Management.
>> I spoke with our public information officers.
>> They said to contact Bobbi Doan with ODF.
>> Here's her email contact info
>>
>> Bobbi.j.doan at oregon.gov
>>
>> She can at least point you in the right direction.
>> We appreciate your offer for assistance.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Aaron Paul
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Sep 6, 2017, at 12:30 PM, Misty Mesaga <Misty.Mesaga at pgn.com> wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know of any organizations or efforts to which I could lend a
>> GIS/cartography hand in the fight against the regional wildfires? I?d
>> love
>> to chip in right now, apart from donating money to relief groups, and
>> I?ve
>> heard from a [very busy, very exhausted] firefighting friend that that
>> sort
>> of help could be used at the moment...just not sure where or how.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>>
>>
>> Misty M?saga
>>
>> Potelco | PGE GIS Designer
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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