The Oregon and Southwest Washington URISA website is designed to be a resource for OR-URISA members, GIS and Information Technology professionals, and students to learn more about GIS, technology, and open source issues and events, find special interest groups, and meet chapter members.  Check back often to find out the latest information on events and important issues.

Mark your calendars for the TWENTIETH Annual GIS In Action Conference, hosted by the Columbia River Region of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) and the Oregon-Southwest Washington Chapter of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA).This year, we will be hosting a JOINT CONFERENCE WITH PLSO. Each year ASPRS and URISA collaborate to hold this informational conference on current issues in the Geospatial Information Community. Navigate to the conference website from the GIS IN ACTION link above.

URISA International's GIS-Pro & Northwest GIS User Conference to be held jointly in Portland - This should be an outstanding conference for a number of reasons and not just the fact that the two organizations have joined forces. Paramount is the fact that this will be a crossing of cultures: Management & Technology. Traditionally, URISA is more of a management focus and NWUG is more of a technical group. The combination will offer you a lot of outstanding choices!  Stay tuned for further conference information.

OR-URISA Announces Scholarship Winners - Congratulations to Tera Hinkley and to  Daniel Uthman; recipients of 2011 OR-URISA scholarships.  Tera, a Portland State University GIS Certificate Program student, has been awarded a $500 tuition scholarship.  Daniel, who is pursuing a Masters Degree in Geography from Portland State University, has been awarded a $500 Research award to help him out in performing research on the Willapa National Wildlife Refuge. 

Oregon URISA Member wins First Place in Student Competition - Congratulations to Taylor Riso with Lewis and Clark College for winning the First Place award.  The submitted paper was on "Estimating Phosphorous Potential from Non-Point Source Pollution to Determine High-Risk Areas in the Missisquoi Watershed: A comparison of the Endreny and Wood and Sivertun and Prange Models"