Fourth Annual Environmental Data Management Conference

Howdy-

I'm looking forward to dusting off this blog!!

I'm happy to announce that the fourth annual International Conference for Environmental Data Management (ICEDM) happens May 14-15, 2013 in Portland, Oregon. Better yet, Sarah Wright of deMaximis Data Management, Inc. (ddms) joined me to co-host the conference.  Sarah's a great speaker, knows people throughout the environmental data management community, and has ton of environmental data management experience.

Here's Sarah presenting at the 2012 Conference....
And here's a shot of the Conference Crowd....

So, what happened to the old conference name (NW EDMC)? Sarah and I felt the word "Northwest" gave a bit of a provincial tone and didn't reflect how the conference has grown. After all, we've had attendees from Australia, Chile, Canada, and from all the US including Alaska. We love the new name-"International Conference for Environmental Data Management" (ICEDM)- genned up by William Puknat of the Montana DEQ, one of our 2012 conference attendees. Along with the new name, we have a new website and a twitter account where we post conference news.

Check out the 2012 conference photos here. The attendee list grew in 2012 so we could add a reception following the first day's meeting including free drinks and food. Receptionaires (like that made up word?) had a great time socializing and talking shop with folks from all over the world.