Tuesday, March 26th 12-1:30pm
Sometimes you need to manipulate the data in your dashboard, for example adding a new field to hold a calculation or modified string, or collating data that is spread across multiple fields or layers.  Data expressions to the rescue!  Data expressions are Arcade expressions written to return a FeatureSet which can be used in the dashboard.  In this lunchtime session we will go through some examples of how you might use them.
 
Please register to attend: NEARC Community Event Registration 

​Do you have a Dashboard project that you’d like to share with the NEARC Community? We want to hear from you! We are inviting users to submit a 5 minute lightning talk to show off their work during this event. To submit please complete the NEARC Community Event Interest Form.

​Friday, March 22nd 12-1pm
We all face unique challenges when it comes to advocating for ourselves. This session is designed to empower women in GIS to confidently navigate the job market, advocate for their worth, and secure their next opportunity, no matter what that might be!
Please register to attend and share this invite with others! WiGIS NE Event Registration 

Monday, February 26th, 12-1pm
In Celebration of Black History Month, NEARC invites you to explore some of the History Trail story maps from around the Northeast. This event will take us on a journey from Hartford's Black Heroes Trail to the African American Heritage Trail in Vermont. 
Do you have a story map or other mapping project showcasing Black History in the Northeast? Contact Katie Grillo ([email protected]) to be added to this event!  ​

​Northstar of GIS 2024 Black History Month Series
Northstar of GIS is offering a series of events all month long! Please visit gisnorthstar.org/bhm for more information.

​Working with Imagery and Remotely Sensed Content in ArcGISWhen: Thursday, December 7, 12PM – 1:30PM
Where: Virtual
Mapping Reality and detecting change at the rural edge

The rural edge is a sensitive zone that exists between urbanization and rural environments. As rural landscapes are transformed by development, the result is often irreversible change that has significant impacts on quality of life and the environment. In this NEARC Community Event session, Esri will demonstrate how up-to-date imagery and 3D data can provide the most relevant geospatial information for understanding and managing change within the rural edge.
CT Mappy Hour - NEARC Fall 2023​When: Friday, October 13 at 2:00pm (Friday before Fall NEARC)
Where: WeHa Brewery 141 Shield Street West Hartford CT 
Sponsored by Bad Elf
BONUS!! Bring your first poster presentation/Map or Favorite Map you have ever made!

NEARC HUB WorkshopWhen: Wednesday, September 20th 12-1:30pm
Where: Virtual
 
The latest NEARC lunch and learn is all about ArcGIS Hub, a cloud-based engagement platform that helps organizations share important information and engage meaningfully with stakeholders and community members. Esri staff will give an overview of ArcGIS Hub, discuss setting up a hub website, look at sharing data and content and show how Hub Premium allows community members to be active participants in Hub initiatives.
 
Do you have a HUB site/project that you’d like to share with the NEARC Community? We want to hear from you!
We are inviting users to submit a 5 minute lightning talk to show off their work during this event.
To submit please complete the NEARC Community Event Interest Form. 

Event Recording: NEARC Event: ArcGIS Hub
Esri Resources:

• hub.arcgis.com
• hub.arcgis.com/pages/gallery
• solutions.arcgis.com

Martha’s Vineyard!  Mappy Hour! ​When: Saturday, September 16 at 4:00 pm
Where: Nomans, 15 Island Inn Road, Oak Bluffs, MA (​Map- Travel Logistics)

Update, event cancelation: Hurricane Lee decided to modify our plans, but we will gather on the Vineyard either in the late spring or late summer in 2024.  Stay tuned for future updates!

Join us for house-distilled rum and its inspired cocktails, good food, lawn games, and live music.  Best of all, there will be great conversation!  All this and an island getaway? 
 
Come early and enjoy the Vineyard and Oak Bluffs in their best season on your own, before our Mappy Hour event: 

• Walk the Camp Meeting cottages and tour their little museum
• Enjoy the Tivoli Day street fair in downtown Oak Bluffs
• Take a swim at Oak Bluff’s Town Beach, near the ferry

 
Then, when you are just about ready for a nosh and refreshment, join us at our Mappy Hour!
NH and ME Seacoast Mappy HourWhen: Wednesday, August 23 from 5:30 - 8:00pm
Where: Maine Beer Café, 439 US RT 1, Ste. 1, Kittery, Maine 03904
Connect with fellow colleagues, enjoy some good brews, tell fun mapping stories, and relax in a chill environment. All are welcome to attend!
NEARC Esri UC MeetupWhen: Tuesday, July 11th, 5:00-7:00pm
Where: Social Tap - 815 J St Suite #101, San Diego, CA 92101
We are excited to be bringing back the annual NEARC UC Meetup! Come join us in person at the Social Tap Patio in San Diego, California during the Esri User Conference. We invite you to come connect with NEARC friends and colleagues, enjoy the sunshine and a drink or app with us.
This event is graciously sponsored by our friends at​ NV5 Geospatial and Terracon.
NEURISA and NEARC Mappy HourWhen: Thursday, April 27th 6-8
Where: Trinity Brewhouse at 186 Fountain St, Providence, RI 02903
NEURISA and NEARC are teaming up to host a Providence Area Mappy Hour. This is an opportunity to connect with fellow colleagues, enjoy some good brews, tell fun mapping stories, and relax in a chill environment. All are welcome to attend!

The Experience Builder Experience​When: Wednesday, March 8, 2023, 12-1:30 PM
What: ​The Esri Team is back to kickoff the 2023 Community Event Esri Workshop Series! This lunch and learn session will be all about Experience Builder. NEARC has heard your feedback and so this event will also include user presentations to showcase how Experience Builder has been put into practice.

We are looking for a few presenters who would like to give brief (5 min) talk on their own use of Experience Builder for this workshop. Are you interested? We want to hear from you!
Please submit your experience builder work via the NEARC Community Event Interest Form.

ArcGIS Experience Builder can help you to transform your data and maps into compelling web apps without writing a single line of code. Build apps with, or without, a map, and display them on a laptop, mobile device, or website. Perform a drag-and-drop operation to choose the tools you need from a rich set of widgets, without any coding. In the workshop, you will learn how to use Experience Builder via presentations and demos.

Event Recording: NEARC Event: Experience Builder
Event Resources: Esri and our User Presenters were kind enough to share the following resources with us all. If you have any questions, please contact the speaker(s) directly. Big thanks again to all these folks for helping making this event happen.

• Esri Resources
  • PDF of the PowerPoint Mark shared. It is somewhat more extensive than the one he presented.
  • Slide/page 38 contains a whole list of Helpful Resources!
• User Presentations
  • Active and Completed DCR Watershed Forestry Projects Interactive Map
    • Rich MacLean
    • https://arcg.is/1jeyja
  • Revolutionizing Web App Builder Apps with Experience Builder
    • Mikayla Minor
    • https://app.mvpc.org/REPA
  • CT DOT ATLAS
    • Michael Gracer and Dan Wheeler
    • Experience Builder app requires a login to Connecticut’s ArcGIS portal. Please contact Mike or Dan for more information.

MA NEARC and NEURISA Mappy Hour​When: Tuesday, January 31st, 5-7pm
Where: River Bar at 661 Assembly Row, Somerville, MA 02145
What: The Greater Boston area has an in person Mappy Hour for you! Come join this NEARC and NEURISA collaboration event to connect with colleagues, swap your best mappy stories, or just relax with good company and delicious beers. This venue is a short walk from public transit or there is also parking available in the Assembly Row area.

​Fall NEARC ConferenceWhen: Sunday, November 6th - Wednesday 9th
Where: Mt. Washington Hotel Resort
What: NEARC is not just for the GIS faithful. Yes, NEARC is for GIS practitioners, but NEARC is for anyone who wants to see the value GIS technology brings to their own environment and the world. This conference is very valuable for new users as well as those who have been using GIS for many years. www.northeastarc.org/fall-nearc.htm
NEARC Board Open HouseTuesday, November 1st, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
During this year’s Fall Conference, the NEARC Board of Directors will be undergoing a lot of change. We will have two open board seats elected during the conference, and following the conference, the Board will elect a new Chair as well as a new Treasurer! This lunchtime session will be your opportunity to learn more about the NEARC Board, who we are, what we do, as well as what roles and responsibilities there are. This is also a chance to learn more about the two open board seats.

​If you are interested in joining the board, you must plan to attend the Fall Conference in person (scholarships are available) and have someone nominate you at the Monday afternoon Business Meeting. This lunch session is your chance to connect with the Board and learn more about this incredible opportunity to get move involved in the NEARC Community. We hope you will join us!

Event Resources:
Event Recording: NEARC Board Open House
NEARC Website
Meet the Board

Stakeholder Mobilization for Climate, Health and EquityThursday, September 29th, 12-1:30pm
GIS professionals have tools and expertise that are critical to Stakeholder Mobilization for Climate, Health and Equity. This is your opportunity to learn more and get involved!

Advanced Energy Group (AEG) is a quarterly stakeholder action platform across key cities (Boston, Chicago, Washington DC and NYC) for engaged individuals committed to delivering on clean energy, equity and resilience promises. As Lead Facilitator and CEO of AEG, H.G. Chissell is focused on curating the right collection of top energy leaders and facilitating ongoing stakeholder collaboration to expedite real progress in 12 month sprints.

​During this workshop we will hear more about AEG’s mission and how mapping can be used to visualize and bring more awareness to these important energy and equity goals.
​
Event Resources:
Event Recording: Stakeholder Mobilization Recording
bit.ly/AEG_Charging_Infrastructure
Overview of AEG Task Forces
AEG Calendar of Events

VT NEARC Mappy Hour​When: Wednesday, September 14th 5:30 – 7:30pm
Where: Zero Gravity Beer Hall at 716 Pine St, Burlington, VT
What: Hey VT NEARCers, we’ve got an in person Mappy Hour for you! This is an opportunity to come together in an informal setting to connect with colleagues, swap your best mappy stories, or just relax with good company and delicious beers.

MA NEARC Mappy HourWhen: Thursday, August 18th 5:30 – 7:30pm
Where: The Porch at 175 Rivers Edge Dr, Medford, MA 02155
What: The Greater Boston area has an in person Mappy Hour for you! Come join us at the Porch in Medford to connect with colleagues, swap your best mappy stories, or just relax with good company and delicious beers. This venue is a short walk from public transit or there is also parking available on site.

GeoAI in ArcGISWhen: Wednesday, July 27th 12:00-1:30pm (Eastern Time)
In this virtual lunch and learn, David Yu, Senior Data Scientist at Esri will lead us as we explore GeoAI, the intersection of GIS and the latest developments in artificial intelligence. In recent years, AI has become exceeding good at automating decision making, natural language processing and object recognition tasks. Using ArcGIS we will discuss applying deep learning models to help you automate feature extraction tasks for a variety of datatypes, such as nadir/oblique imagery, LiDAR point clouds and vector data. We will discuss GeoAI best practices, when (and when not to) use deep learning, and even how to train your own custom models from start to finish.

Event Recording: GeoAI

Event Resources

• Learn ArcGIS gallery: https://learn.arcgis.com/en/gallery/#?q=deep%20learning
• Pretrained Models: https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/deep-learning-models
• GeoAI Medium blogs: https://medium.com/geoai
• Python API Sample Notebooks: https://developers.arcgis.com/python/samples (search for keyword 'deep learning' under GIS analysts and data scientists dropdown)
• GitHub: https://github.com/Esri/deep-learning-frameworks

NEARC ESRI UC MeetupWhen: Tuesday, July 12th, 5:00-7:00pm
Where: Social Tap - 815 J St Suite #101, San Diego, CA 92101
It’s been a couple years, but we are bringing back the NEARC UC Meetup! We will be IN-PERSON at the Social Tap Patio in San Diego, California during the Esri User Conference. We invite you to come connect with NEARC friends and colleagues, enjoy the sunshine and a drink or app with us! This event is graciously sponsored by our friends at​ NV5 Geospatial.

NEARC CT Mappy HourWhere: Arch II Sports Bar and Grill -- 632 Cromwell Ave, Rocky Hill, CT
NEARC Community Events are going to start circulating in person events around the Northeast! We are kicking things off in June with an in person Mappy Hour in Rocky Hill, CT. This is an opportunity to come together in an informal setting to connect with colleagues, swap your best mappy stories or just relax and shoot some pool. The Arch II has dart boards and pool tables inside, as well as patio space for those that prefer to stay outdoors. For this event, NEARC is excited to be teaming up with NEURISA and the CT GIS Network. ​
Desktop to Online - The Shift in Higher EducationWednesday, April 20th,  12:00-1:30pm
Within the field of GIS, there has been and continues to be a shift towards interactive web mapping. Desktop software still plays a critical role, but so much work can now be done using a tool such as ArcGIS Online. For this workshop, Brian Baldwin from Esri will be joining Katie Grillo as they put on their Adjunct Professor hats and lead the NEARC Community in discussion centered around the shift in higher education from teaching ArcGIS desktop software to moving more online. Together we will acknowledge some of the challenges and explore potential solutions we can implement. This conversation will be geared towards those in higher education, but all are welcome to attend. 
​
Event Resources
Event Recording: Desktop to Online
Modern GIS Landing Page: esri.com/industries/higher-education/roles/educators/modern-gis
Learning Guide: Higher_Ed_Guide_Esri_ELearning.pdf
Join us for Spring NEARC at Westfield State University on Monday, May 16th
Make plans to attend Fall NEARC's GIS Educators Day on Sunday, November 6th: northeastarc.org/gis-ed-day
ArcGIS SolutionsWednesday, March 9th,  12:00-1:30pm
Join the Esri team to learn more about ArcGIS Solutions, a collection of focused maps and apps that help address challenges in your organization. Solutions leverage your authoritative data and are designed to improve operations, provide new insight, and enhance services in government, utility, defense, public safety, telecommunications, and commercial business.  In this session we will focus on understanding how the pieces of a solution fit together by deploying the Tree Management Solution, which can be used to create an inventory of publicly owned trees, streamline inspection and maintenance activities, understand conditions, cultivate a volunteer workforce, and inform the public.  The first hour of this workshop will be dedicated to learning about these tools and then we will have 30 minutes or so for Q&A, open discussion, and breakout rooms to connect with colleagues. We hope to see you there! 

Event Resources
Event Recording: NEARC Event: ArcGIS Solutions
Presentation PowerPoint
ArcGIS Solutions Homepage
ArcGIS Solutions Gallery​

​Preserving Significant Places of Black HistoryWednesday, February 16th,  12:00-1:00pm
In honor of Black History Month, NEARC is excited to be welcoming the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission to share the Preserving Significant Places of Black History story map. During this session, we will learn more about this incredible story map, how it was dreamed into existence, and what tricks were used to create an engaging story. The second half of the event will be dedicated to a discussion of how we can each do something similar in our own local communities!

Event Resources
Event Recording: NEARC Workshop: Preserving Significant Places of Black History
Story Map: Preserving Significant Places of Black History
Additional Resources:
Discover NYC Landmarks map 
Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) website
Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) story maps
NEARC’s New Year Mappy HourThursday, January 6th, 2022, 7-8:30pm
​2021 is almost in the rearview mirror! Come join new and old NEARC friends and colleagues for an informal Mappy Hour event to reflect on the past year and look forward to the next. There will be breakout rooms with a variety of New Year topics and themes. Do you have GIS resolutions? What are you excited about for 2022? Come get inspired, swap stories, or just relax and catch up.