National Spatial Data Infrastructure Funding Program

2001 Cooperative Agreements Program (CAP)

Participating Organizations Contact Information

The National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) 

represents a broad consortium of government 

agencies and non-government organizations that 

work together to promote more cost-effective 

production, ready availability, and greater

utilization of geospatial data across a wide range of 

disciplines. NSDI Cooperative Agreement Program 

(CAP) was established by the Federal Geographic 

Data Committee (FGDC) to help form partnerships 

among organizations to implement the NSDI. Since 

1994 the FGDC has provided funding and

assistance to over 350 organizations implementing 

the NSDI. This year’s program provided

approximately $850,000 to 52 organizations in four 

categories. The program’s goal is to encourage 

resource-sharing projects through the use of

technology, networking, and more efficient interorganizational coordination. 

For further information see the FGDC website at 

http://www.fgdc.gov, contact the FGDC Secretariat, 

c/o U.S. Geological Survey, 590 National Center, 

Reston, VA 20192; telephone 703-648-5513; fax 

703-648-5755; or email dpainter@fgdc.gov.

l Category 1: Metadata Implementation 

Assistance Projects

Creating data about geospatial data (metadata) is an

important first step in implementing the NSDI. These 

projects focus on acquiring the knowledge and experience 

to create metadata for the documentation of data for

clearinghouse discovery.

Alabama

Quality Research, Inc.

4901 Corporate Drive

Huntsville, AL 35805-6201

Steve Parker

Voice: 256.864.8347

E-mail: steve.parker@qr.com

Arizona

Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research

University of Arizona

105 West Stadium

Tucson, AZ 85721

Merrick Richmond

Voice: 520.626.8629

Fax: 520.621.8229

Email: merrick@1trr.arizona.edu

Arkansas

Western Arkansas Planning and 

Development District, Inc.

1109 South 16th Street

P.O. Box 2067

Fort Smith, AR 72902

Rusty Myers

Voice: 501.785.2651

Fax: 501.785.1964

E-mail: rmyers@wapdd.org

California

Visible Light, Inc.

1562 Cougar Ridge Road

Buellton, CA 93427

Timothy Tyndall

Voice: 805.686.1798

Fax: 805.686.1149

E-mail: rain@rain.org

Website: http://www.rain.org
City of San Jose

Department of Public Works

Engineering Services Division

Infrastructure Section

801 North Fifth Street, Room 410

San Jose, CA 95110

Kevin Briggs

Voice: 408.277.2972

Fax: 408.277.3869

E-mail: Kevin.briggs@ci.sj.ca.us

California State University, San Bernardino

Department of Geological Sciences

5500 University Parkway

San Bernardino, CA 92407

Joan E. Fryxell

Voice: 909.880.5311

Fax: 909.880.7005

E-mail: jfryxell@csusb.edu

Bay Area Automated Mapping Association

1615 Broadway, Suite 415

Oakland, CA 94612

Bruce Joffe

Voice: 510.238.9771

E-mail: gis.consultants@joffes.com

Website: http://ceres.ca.gov/catalog

Website: http://baama.org

Colorado

National Park Service

Intermountain Support Office

12795 West Alameda Parkway

GIS Program Office

Denver, CO 80225-0258

Theresa Ely

Voice: 303.969.2653

Fax: 303.969.2644

E-mail: Theresa_ely@nps.gov

Website: http://www.nps.gov/gis/available_data.html

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Geographic Data Service Center

3000 Youngfield Street, Suite 230

Lakewood, CO 80215

William J. Bonner

Voice: 303.231.5100 ext. 332

Fax: 303.231.5122

E-mail: bbonner@gdsc.bia.gov

Connecticut

City of Norwalk

Department of Public Works

P.O. Box 5125

125 East Avenue

Norwalk, CT 06856-5125

Michael M. Yeosock

Voice: 203.854.7791

Fax: 203.857.0143

E-mail: myeosock@norwalkct.org

Connecticut Department of Environmental 

Protection

Environmental & Geographic Information 

Center

79 Elm Street

Hartford, CT 06106-5127

Jonathan D. Scull

Voice: 860.424.3597

Fax: 860.424.4058

E-mail: jonathan.scull@po.state.ct.us

Website: http://magic.lib.uconn.edu

Florida

Mote Marine Laboratory

1600 Ken Thompson Parkway

Sarasota, FL 34236

Bradley D. Robbins

Voice: 941.388.4441

Fax: 941.388.4312

E-mail: robbins@mote.org

GeoPlan Center

University of Florida

219 Grinder Hall, Box 115500

Gainesville, FL 32611

Paul Zwick

Voice: 352.392.0997 ext. 427

E-mail: paul@geoplan.ufl.edu

Website: http://www.fgdl.org

Hawai’i

Hawai’i Geographic Information 

Coordinating Council

7192 Kalanianaole Highway, Suite G-240

Honolulu, HI 96825

Royce Jones

Voice: 808.395.6977

Fax: 808.395.6978

E-mail: rjones@esri.com

National Marine Fisheries Service - NOAA

Honolulu Laboratory

2570 Dole Street

Honolulu, HI 96822

Michael Parke
Voice: 808.983.5389

Fax: 808.983.2902

E-mail: Michael.parke@noaa.gov

Idaho

Coeur D’Alene Tribe

Natural Resources GIS

850 A Street

Plummer, ID 83851

Frank Roberts

Voice: 208.686.5307

Fax: 208.686.1901

E-mail: fmroberts@cdatribe.org

University of Idaho

Remote Sensing and GIS Laboratory

Moscow, ID 83844-1142

Eva Strand

Voice: 208.885.5779

Fax: 208.885.6226

E-mail: evas@uidaho.edu

Website: http://inside.uidaho.edu

Louisiana

Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium

8124 Highway 56

Chauvin, LA 70344

Ben Cole

Voice: 985.851.2835

Fax: 985.851.2874

E-mail: bcole@lumcon.edu

Michigan

Wayne State University

Center for Urban Studies

656 West Kirby Street, Room 4002 FAB

Detroit, MI 48202

Dr. David Martin

Voice: 313.577.6564

Fax: 313.577.1274

E-mail: david.e.martin@wayne.edu

Minnesota

The Nature Conservancy

Midwest conservation Science Center

1313 Fifth Street SE, Suite 314

Minneapolis, MN 55414

Jennifer Hall

Voice: 612.331.0708

Fax: 612.331.0770

E-mail: jhall@tnc.org

North Carolina

Duke University

Nicholas School of the Environment and the 

Earth Sciences

A246 Levine Science Research Center, Box 90328

Durham, NC 27708

Patrick N. Halpin

Voice: 919.613.8062

Fax: 919.684.8741

E-mail: phalpin@duke.edu

Oklahoma

National Severs Storms Laboratory – NOAA

1313 Halley Circle

Norman, OK 73069

Ami Arthur

Voice: 405.366.0488

Fax: 406.366.0472

Website: ami.arthur@nssl.noaa.gov

Oregon

Oregon Department of Land Conservation & 

Development

Ocean Coastal Management Program

635 Capitol Street NE, Suite 150

Salem, OR 97301

Tanya Hadad

Voice: 503.731.4065 ext. 30

Fax: 503.731.4068

E-mail: Tanya.hadad@state.or.us

Website: http://buccaneer.geo.orst.edu

Pennsylvania 

County of Carbon 

GIS Department

2 Lehigh Avenue

Jim Thorpe, PA 18229

Larry Stawiarski

Voice: 570.325.8519

Fax: 570.325.3622

E-mail: ccgis1@ptd.net

South Carolina

Baruch Institute for Marine Biology & 

Coastal Research

University of South Carolina

Columbia, SC 29208

Dwayne E. Porter

Voice: 803.777.4615

Fax: 803.777.8769
E-mail: porter@sc.edu

Virginia

College of Architecture and Urban Studies

Department of Landscape Architecture - VPI

220 Architecture Annex

Blacksburg, VA 24061

Benjamin C. Johnson

Voice: 540.231.5698

E-mail: johnsonb@vt.edu

Website: 

http://www.umesc.usgs.gov/http_data/meta_isite/nbiigate

way.html

Website: http://www.lib.vt.edu/subjects/virg/maps.htm

Wise County & City of Norton Circuit Court 

Clerk’s Office

206 East Main Street

P.O. Box 1248

Wise, VA 24293

J. Jack Kennedy

Voice: 540.328.6111

Fax: 540.328.0039

E-mail: jkennedy@naxs.com

Washington

Hanford Site Spatial Data Council

DOE-RL Office of Site Services

P.O. Box 550 MISN# A2-15

Richland, WA 99352

Steven Rush

Voice: 509.376.4001

Fax: 509.372.3721

E-mail: steven_f_rush@rl.gov

Website: http://metadata.gis.washington.edu

l Category 2: Metadata Trainer 

Assistance

Understanding the metadata standard, and how to apply it 

to one’s data is a difficult first step in the documentation 

of data for discovery through the clearinghouse. Funding 

assistance given to these organizations provides training 

and support for metadata implementation.

Coeur d’Alene Tribe

Natural Resources GIS

850 A Street

Plummer, ID 83851

Frank Roberts

Voice: 208.686.5307

Fax: 208.686.1901

E-mail: fmroberts@cdatribe.org

Intertribal GIS Council

231 S. E. Byers Avenue

PO Box 1937

Pendleton, OR 97801

Robin White

Voice: 541.966.9234

Fax: 541.966.6010

E-mail: robin@itgisc.org

Lewis-Clark State College

500 8th Avenue

Lewiston, ID 83501

Dr. Jeffrey M. Mathews

Voice: 708.792.2089

Fax: 208.792.2064

E-mail: matthews@lcsc.edu

Website: http://inside.uidaho.edu

Association of Monterey Bay Area 

Governments (AMBAG)

PO Box 809

Marina, CA 93933

Jorge Goicochea

Voice: 831.883.3750

Fax: 831.883.3755

E-mail: gis@ambag.org

Website: http://www.centralcoastdata.org

Website: http://www.ambag.org

Harry Reid Center for Environmental 

Studies

University of Nevada

4505 Maryland Parkway

Box 454009

Las Vegas, NV 89154

Dr. Craig Palmer

Voice: 702.895.1797

Fax: 702.895.3094

E-mail: palmerc@nevada.edu

Center for Biological Informatics

U.S. Geological Survey

PO Box 25046 MS 302

Denver, CO 80225

Sharon Shin

Voice: 303.202.4320

Fax: 303.202.4219

E-mail: Sharon_shin@usgs.gov

Website: http://www.nbii.gov

National Geophysical Data Center (NOAA)

325 Broadway

Boulder, CO 80305

David A. Hastings
Voice: 303.497.6729

Fax: 303.497.6513

Website: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov

GeoMaxim

60 Cherokee Road

Asheville, NC 28801

Lynda Wayne

Voice: 828.250.3801

Fax: 828.251.6242

E-mail: lwayne@email.com

Geological Survey of Alabama

POB 869999

Tuscaloosa, AL 35486-6999

Berry Tew

Voice: 205.349.2852

Fax: 205.349.2861

E-mail: ntew@gsa.state.al.us

Website: http://www.gsa.state.al.us

Conservation Management Institute

College of Natural Resources (VPI)

203 West Roanoke Street

Blacksburg, VA 24061

Lila Borg Wills

Voice: 540.231.7348

Fax: 540.231.7019

E-mail: lborge@vt.edu

Website: http://fwie.fw.vt.edu

Louisiana Geographic Information Center

E302 Howe-Russell Building

Louisiana State University

Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Craig Johnson

Voice: 225.578.3479

Fax: 225.578.5328

E-mail: cjohnson@lsu.edu

http://lagic.lsu.edu

Center for International Earth Science 

Information Network (CIESIN)

Columbia University

61 Route 9W

PO Box 1000

Palisades, NY 10956

Dr. Robert Chen

Voice: 845.365.8952

Fax: 845.365.8922

E-mail: bchen@ciesin.columbia.edu

Website: http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu

Website: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu

Bruce Wescott

122 School Street, #6

Marshfield, VT 05658

Voice: 802.426.3344

Fax: 802.426.3394

E-mail: bspatial@together.net

Website: http://homepages.together.net/~bspatial

Wisconsin State Cartographer’s Office

160 Science Hall, UW-Madison

550 North Park Street

Madison, WI 53706-1491

Ted Koch

Voice: 608.262.6852

Fax: 608.262.5205

E-mail: tkoch@facstaff.wisc.edu

Website: http://www.geography.wisc.edu/sco/

Justice Research and Statistics Association

777 North Capitol Street, NE

Suite 801

Washington, DC 20002-4239

Jim Zepp

Voice: 202.842.9330

Fax: 202.842.9329

E-mail: jzepp@jrsa.org

Website: http://www.jrsa.org

l Category 3: Clearinghouse Integration 

with Web Mapping

These projects will extend clearinghouse nodes with

OpenGIS Consortium compliant web mapping service

capabilities for linking to and viewing geospatial data in 

the NSDI Clearinghouse.

Vermont Center for Geographic 

Information, Inc.

590 Main Street UVM

Burlington, VT 05405

David F. Brotzman

Voice: 802.656.1371

Fax: 802.656.0776

E-mail: davidb@vcgi.uvm.edu

Website: http://geo-vt.uvm.edu

Albert R. Mann Library

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY 14853-4301

Katherine S. Chaing

Voice: 607.255.7957

Fax: 607.255.0318

E-mail: ksc3@cornell.edu

Website: http://www.mannlib.cornell.edu

Mifflin County Mapping Department

20 North Wayne Street

Lewiston, PA 17044
Margaret Fisher

Voice: 717.242.5449

Fax: 717.248.3695

E-mail: 

Website: http://www.co.mifflin.pa.us

Earth Data Analysis Center

University of New Mexico

Bandelier West, Room 111

Albuquerque, NM 87131-6031

Amelia M. Budge

Voice: 505.277.3622

Fax: 550.277.3614

E-mail: abudge@spock.unm.edu

Metropolitan Council

MetroGIS Project

230 East Fifth Street

St. Paul, MN 55101-1633

Alison Slaats

Voice: 651.602.1561

Fax: 651.602.1404

E-mail: alison.slaats@metc.state.mn.us

Website: http://www.datafinder.org

University of Idaho Library

Rayburn Street

Moscow, ID 83844-2353

Lily Wai

Voice: 208.885.6344

Fax: 208.885.6817

E-mail: lwai@uidaho.edu

Website: http://inside.uidaho.edu

University of Nevada – Reno

204 Ross Hall

Reno, NV 89557-0044

Duncan M. Aldrich

Voice: 775.784.6500 X256

Fax: 775.784.4398

E-mail: duncan@unr.edu

Website: http://www.unr.edu

Center for Advanced Technologies

University of Arkansas

12 Ozark Hall

Fayetteville, AR 72756 

Fred Limp

Voice: 501.575.7909

Fax: 501.575.5218

E-mail: fred@cast.uark.edu

Website: http://www.cast.uark.edu/index.html

l Category 4: Canadian/U.S. 

Framework Project

This project will develop the collaborative process to 

create and share basic themes of geospatial data

(framework data) shared by both U.S. and Canadian

organizations. This international demonstration project 

focuses on two areas with known water management 

problems, of the Roseau and Pembina river basins.

Partnering organizations in this project are jointly funded 

by the Federal Geographic Data Committee and

GeoConnections Canada. GeoConnections

(www.geoconnections.org) is developing the Canadian 

Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI).

Project Title: Joint US/Canada Framework for the 

Red River Basin

Houston Engineering, Inc. (U. S. project lead)

10900 73rd Avenue North, Suite 106

Maple Grove, MN 55369

Mark Deutschman

Voice: 763.493.4522

Fax: 763.493.5572

E-mail: mdeutschman@mpls.houstoneng.com

Vantage Point International, Inc. (Canadian 

project lead)

1704 Carling Avenue 2nd Floor

Ottawa, ON K2A 1C7 Canada

Ron Saper

Voice: 613.798.2244 ext. 221

Fax: 613.728.0528

E-mail: rsaper@vantpoint.com

The 2002 CAP Program

The 2002 NSDI Cooperative Agreements

Program (CAP) will be announced Fall 2001

with awards the Spring 2002. The CAP

program announcement, description,

application information and materials will be online at the FGDC website. Watch the FGDC

website and “CAP/Funding” webpage for the

upcoming 2002 program.

http://www.fgdc.gov