WRPA 2018 Fall Leadership Summit

"Actionable Insights: leveraging data to advance park planning"

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 9 | 2:45 AM - 4:15 PM

Speaker: Lara Miller, Senior GIS Project Manager | The Trust for Public Land

Description: Explore the potential of innovative decision support tools to help park and recreation planners become more strategic in your investments. The session will include an overview and demonstration of a number of publicly available decision support tools and deep dives into the tools and their potential applications for advancing strategic park and recreation investment.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn about publicly available decision-support tools
  • Understand how to leverage data in the decision-support tools to advance park planning
  • Explore within the tools in a hands-on interactive session 

Lara Wood Miller is a Senior GIS Project Manager for the Trust for Public Land. She manages GIS planning projects for TPL’s Conservation Vision and Climate Smart Cities Programs. Lara is a GIS professional and environmental scientist with over 20 years of experience. Since joining TPL in 2015, Lara has worked with a team of GIS staff and consultants to implement cutting-edge methodologies and tools for conservation projects ranging from informing multi-jurisdictional trail planning to modeling efforts that make cities “climate-smart” to identifying priority areas for landscape-scale conservation plans. Prior to coming to TPL, Lara worked for The Nature Conservancy as the Director of Conservation Operations focusing on wildfire planning and large landscape conservation analyses. She has Masters in Environmental Science and Management with an emphasis on Environmental Data Management from the Bren School at the University of California – Santa Barbara.

 

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