NSGIC Awards
Celebrating 25 years of facilitating smart policy, partnership-building, innovation and professional growth
NSGIC was formed to provide a unified voice on geographic information and technology issues, advocate for states' interest and support its membership in statewide initiatives. Through the decades, NSGIC members have led the way in the creation of intelligent maps and databases that enable public and private decision-makers to make better informed and timelier decisions in a wide array of governmental areas. With our annual presentation of awards, NSGIC recognizes the highest levels of public service leadership, commitment and contributions to the greater geospatial community.
Geospatial Excellence Awards
Geospatial Excellence Award: Champion
Geospatial Excellence Award: Catalyst
Geospatial Excellence Award: Innovator
To be considered for a Geospatial Excellence Award, an individual or organization must meet at least three of the following criteria:
- Creates a sustainable partnership or initiative that returns significant benefit from geospatial technology across multiple organizations
- Documents measured improvement in implementing a state or national spatial data infrastructure
- Advances the 'create it once, use it a bunch' credo for efficiently delivering valued geospatial data and services across a broad enterprise of users
- Benefits the whole nation through sharing of innovation or establishment of best practices
- Champions the involvement of all state data infrastructure or national data infrastructure stakeholders
- Promotes NSGIC's goal of efficient and effective government through increased, prudent adoption of geospatial technologies
Service Awards
Lifetime Service Recognizing a "lifetime" of noted, dedicated and distinguished service to NSGIC, generally awarded at the conclusion or transition point of an individual's career
Outstanding Service Presented to an individual or organization that has advanced the national spatial data infrastructure and promoted NSGIC's goal of efficient and effective government
Award Recipients
2016 Outstanding Service Award Recipients
Tony Lavoi, NOAA, Department of Commerce
Andy Rowan, State of New Jersey
Nathalie Smith, Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc (esri)
Kathy DeMarco, NSGIC Association Manager
Craig Johnson, Louisiana Geographic Info Center
Phil Worrall, Indiana Geographic Information Council, Inc.
Randy Mayden, North West Geomatics Ltd.
2016 Geospatial Excellence Award Recipients
Catalyst Awards
Georgia Association of Regional Commissions
Jim Dove, Allen Burns, Brent Lanford of the Georgia Association of Regional Commissions
Catalyst Award
The Alaska Geospatial Council
Catalyst Awards
VITA Integrated Services Program - Kenny Brevard, VITA ISP
Catalyst Award
Joan Delos Santos, Hawaii Office of Planning
Catalyst Award
Sean McSpaden, Oregon Legislative Fiscal Office
Catalyst Award
Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium
Champion Award
Ed Fogels, Alaska Department of Natural Resources
Champion Awards
Utah Mapping & Information Partnership, Executive Steering Committee
Amanda Smith, Utah Department of Environmental Quality
Robyn Pearson, Utah Department of Natural Resources
Innovator Award
West Virginia State GIS Technical Center
Innovator Awards
Wisconsin Legislative Technology Services Bureau
Jeff Ylvisaker and Tony Van Der Wielen, WI LTSB
2015 Outstanding Service Award Recipients
Richard Butgereit, State of Florida
Boice Tomlin, Run Skip LLC
2015 Lifetime Service Award
Stewart Kirkpatrick, State of Montana
2014 Outstanding Service Award Recipients
Dr. David Cowen, University of South Carolina
Dr. Tim De Troye, GISP, State of South Carolina
Jeff Smith, State of Ohio
2014 Lifetime Service Award
Will Craig, Minnesota
2013 Lifetime Service Award
Gene Trobia, Arizona
2013 Outstanding Service Award Recipients
Cheryl Benjamin, New York
Sean McSpaden, Oregon
Tammy Peterson and Tim Crago, North West Group
Tim Trainor, U.S. Census Bureau
Tom Roff, U.S. Department of Transportation
2012 Lifetime Service Award
Randy Fusaro, U.S. Census Bureau
2012 Outstanding Service Award Recipients
Ian Von Essen, Spokane County, Washington
Leland Pierce, New Mexico
2011 Lifetime Service Award
Stu Davis, Ohio
Mike Mahaffie, Delaware
2011 Outstanding Service Award Recipients
Danielle Ayan, Georgia
John Copple, Sanborn Corporation
Dan Cotter, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Bert Granberg, Utah
Steve Lewis, U.S. Department of Transportation
Justin Sherin, Booz Allen Hamilton
Tom Sturm, U.S. Geological Survey
Mike Vanhook, Alabama
Dan Widner, Virginia
2010 Outstanding Service Award Recipients
Malcolm Adkins, Michael Baker, Jr., Inc.
Ed Arabas, Oregon
Chris Diller, Wisconsin
Susan Fox, NOAA
Rich Grady, Applied Geographics
2009 Outstanding Service Award Recipients
Michael Byrne, California
Learon Dalby, Arkansas
Jon Gottsegen, Colorado
Christian Jacqz, Massachusetts
Diane Schafer, NSGIC
Lifetime Service Award
Dennis Goreham, Utah
Zsolt Nagy, North Carolina
2008 Outstanding Service Award Recipients
James Cason, U.S. Department of Interior
Shirley Hall, USDA
Vicki Lukas, USGS
Mike Mahaffie, Delaware
Craig Molander, Surdex Corporation
Ivan Weichert, Kansas
Lifetime Service Award
Ted Koch, Wisconsin
2007 Outstanding Service Award Recipients
David Brotzman, Vermont
Will Craig, Minnesota
Anne Hale Miglarese, Fugro EarthData
Kenny Miller, Maryland
Miki Schmidt, NOAA
Fred Stringfellow, NSGIC
Dedicated Service Award
Carol Brandt, US DOT
Distinguished Service Award
Ivan Deloatch, USGS
2006 Outstanding Service Award Recipients
Nathan Bentley, Idaho
Shelby Johnson, Arkansas
Stewart Kirkpatrick, Montana
Milo Robinson, FGDC
Jill Saligoe-Simmel, Indiana
Alan Voss, Tennessee
Distinguished Service Award
Scott Cameron, Department of the Interior
2005 Outstanding Service Award Recipients
Tim Haithcoat, Missouri
Bruce Oswald, New York
Stan Ponce, USGS
Cy Smith, Oregon
Lifetime Service Award
Rick Memmel, Wyoming
2004 Outstanding Service Award Recipients
Bob Ader, BLM
Mike Domaratz, USGS
Bill Johnson, State of New York
Mike Ouimet, State of Texas
Tracy Tucker, AMR
2003 Outstanding Service Award Recipients
Pat Cummens, ESRI
Greg Tilley, VARGIS
Leslie Wollack, NSGIC Washington Liaison
Lifetime Service Award
Bill Burgess, Maryland
2002 Outstanding Service Award Recipients
Stuart Davis, Ohio
Randy Fusaro, Census Bureau
Doug Hart, Prism Computer Corp.
Rick Miller, Kansas
Zsolt Nagy, North Carolina
Tony Spicci, Missouri
2001 Outstanding Service Award Recipients
Susan Lambert, Kentucky
Craig Neidig, West Virginia
Joe Sewash, Tennessee
Marshall Turner, Census Bureau
Lynda Wayne, GeoMaxim
2000 Outstanding Service Award Recipients
Glen Daigre, Louisiana
Bruce Joffe, GIS Consultants
John Moeller, FGDC
Gene Trobia, Arizona
Bruce Westcott, Vermont
Dick Witmer, USGS
1999 Outstanding Service Award Recipients
Tom Clemons, Intergraph
Jack Dangermond, ESRI
Catherine Foss, CMA
William Holland, Wisconsin/GeoAnalytics
Ted Koch, Wisconsin
Win Lyday, NACo
Barbara Poore, FGDC
Karen Siderelis, North Carolina
State of Wyoming: Governor Jim Geringer,
Nancy McCann, Rick Memmel
1998 Outstanding Service Award Recipients
Bill Burgess, Maryland
John Caulkins, ESRI
Paul Davis, Mississippi
Sheryl Oliver, Illinois
Lisa Warnecke, GeoManagement Associates
1997 Outstanding Service Award Recipients
Sharon Balfour, Louisiana
Rick Memmel, Wyoming
1995 Outstanding Service Award Recipients
Hank Garie, New Jersey
Dennis Goreham, Utah
Georgia Hopf, Wisconsin
Nancy McCann, Wyoming
David Stage, Florida
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