Link for Plant Mapping Meetup Group on Thursday January 15th, 20206 at 1:00 PM EST

[Carolyn Miller]

The Plant Mapping Meetup Group on Thursday, January 15th, 2026 at 1:00 PM EST, and hear from Greg Payton of The Dawes Arboretum and Laura Knutson Murray of IrisBG. They will be sharing how the IrisBG-ArcGIS Mobile solution works to bring a curated botanical database into the ArcGIS Online environment and monitor tasks using a Dashboard.

Link: 

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81947330141?pwd=two8q4oOAeagTiTkqXKPo8afo9lFpX.1

 

[wally Wilkins]

Hello,

I plan to join for the presentations.  I was invited to the group by Jena Portanova and am looking forward to participating going forward.

Thanks,

Wally

Wally Wilkins

Director of Horticulture and Living Collections
The John Fairey Garden Conservation Foundation
Wa...@JFGarden.org
Mobile - (832) 499-9811

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[Veronica Nixon]

I somehow overlooked the time zone and therefore missed the meeting. :( I hope it was a great information exchange and I look forward to the next one!

-Veronica

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[Cindy Newlander]

Hi Mappers,

Denver Botanic Gardens is planning to re-hire a recently vacated position that included GIS duties, but the position has changed quite a bit from where it started 3 years ago as an IMLS grant funded post. I'm wondering which gardens have GIS-centric positions and where those positions report to (Horticulture, Research, IT, somewhere else?) If you'd be willing to share job descriptions, please send them to me at cindy.n...@botanicgardens.org. I'm particularly interested in learning about institutions that have the GIS person focused on institutional projects and not just living collections and what that position looks like and how that works in the institution's structure. 

Thanks much! 

Cindy Newlander Associate Director of Horticulture (Plant Records) (she, her, hers)

O 720-865-3553    F 720-865-3679

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[Nick Kreevich]

Hey Cindy,

We have actually eliminated the GIS centric role here and are going through the process of redistributing work loads to other departments. For example wayfinding maps are now assigned to Interpretation(they mostly do outside contract work for map development, now), and our facilities team is taking on responsibilities of maintaining our utility maps in coordination with our central University facility services. Within our curatorial/plant records department, our team is still overseeing the GIS assets related to plant collections, horticulture, and research(team of 2 full time and 1 part time). I have attached a position description of when we last hired for the role, which was titled as plant recorder, but had duties outside of plant records/curation. I also happened to save a position description from Desert Botanical Garden when I was going through some reclassification processes/salary adjustments before stepping in to my current role. Hopefully this information is useful to you. Happy to talk more if needed!

I'd also recommend checking out the job board GISJobs.com to help craft the new position description.

[Alyssa Tseng]

Hi Cindy,

We hired a replacement GIS Project Manager last year, so I attached the job description for you to reference. He reports to Botanical, but he works with many other departments on campus to help them become familiar with the possibilities of GIS, though his main focus remains projects involving Botanical.

Hope this helps!