(Updated 6/27/2020)

If you're in the Davis/Sacramento area of California and would like to join us, please come out for Geo-Coffee on Tuesday, March 5th at Philz Coffee in downtown Davis. Looking forward to seeing you there!
https://www.meetup.com/Davis-Women-in-Geospatial-Science-Meetup/events/2...

I know it's February and a little late for a year-in-review kind of deal, but I suddenly looked behind me and realized how much had actually happened in 2018. It's funny because I get to thinking that I haven't been doing very much, not thinking about my field enough or forwarding my skills. I expect everybody feels that way from time to time. But when you sit down and really look at it, you can surprise yourself.

I launched a web app...

I'm working with a colleague to set up a local meetup for women in Spatial Science on GIS Day this year.

It's not just for women. If you're a male GIS professional interested in promoting gender balance in the industry, please join us. The reason I'm inspired to give this meetup a women-in-GIS focus is because our industry isn't particularly gender-balanced. Depending on which survey you read, women make up about ~45% of the industry. In developer and managerial roles, it's more like 20%.

I got my GISP this year. I've been working towards it for awhile, and finally got all the points lined up and got my application approved.

I return from ESRI UC, alternatively titled "18,000 Introverts in Cargo Shorts." But in a good way.

This was my third trip to UC. I always enjoy it. Here are some of the highlights.

There is a handful of local GIS events coming up around here, if you happen to find yourself in the Sacramento area.

Recently I found myself sitting at a GeoDev meetup, having a beer with some fellow geeks and waiting for the lightening talks to start up. My co-worker, a recent hire who brought some additional and very welcome javascript and web app dev experience to our team, was sitting next to me. She leaned in at one point, watching folks mingle around us. "Why are they all guys?" she asked.

Welcome to the dev community.

I did a presentation this week at my local GIS user group meeting. It was on customization options for Data Driven Pages in ArcGIS; I'm sure you're shocked at my choice of topic.

I had some power point malfunctions, which were kind of unfortunate (why does it never go smooth?) but we worked through it. The audience was pretty supportive despite the totally lack of the demonstration videos that I had so carefully put together, and I made it through. Folks asked good questions.