Anthony A. Spicci
President - National States Geographic Information Council
Resource Science Supervisor / GIS Coordinator
Missouri Department of Conservation
Resource Science
1110 South College Avenue
Columbia, MO 65201
TEL: 573-882-9909 ext. 3295
FAX: 573-882-4517
E-MAIL: Tony.Spicci@mdc.mo.gov
Tony is the GIS Coordinator for the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and serves in the Resource Science Division as a supervisor. He began his career with the Department of Conservation in 1992 where he implemented a pilot program that studied the feasibility of implementing GIS for project support within the Department. During his tenure at MDC he has expanded the scope of the GIS program from a project support tool to an enterprise-wide application in which all staff has access to a full range of geospatial technologies. Tony been very active in facilitating the use of GIS throughout the state and nation and has served as the Chair of the Missouri GIS Advisory Committee for five terms and is currently serving as Vice-Chair. Tony has also served as the Symposium Chair for the Mid America GIS Consortium’s (MAGIC) Symposiums in 2002 and 2004 and is currently the Consortium Chair of MAGIC. Tony has been an active member of the National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC) since 1996 and was elected to the Board of Directors in 2002. Tony is currently the President of NSGIC.
Tony is an authorized instructor for a number of ESRI classes. He has been providing GIS software training for over 10 years, having instructed over 400 students. In addition to teaching courses in ArcView and ArcGIS, he frequently teaches workshops and seminars at conferences. He recently founded Geographic Information Technologies, a company dedicated to bringing affordable training to the GIS user.
Tony was born and raised in Upstate New York. While in Boy Scouts, he developed a love for orienteering and maps and decided to study geography at SUNY – Geneseo. He earned a B.A. in Geography from Geneseo and an M.A. in Geography from the University of Missouri. Tony recently went back to school and is working his way through a doctoral program in Forestry. His first exposure to GIS was in 1989 when he helped design a GIS for regulatory permit compliance with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. Tony followed in the footsteps of his father and became a volunteer firefighter on his 18th birthday. Tony now serves as a Lieutenant in the Boone County Fire Protection District and a Technical Information Officer for Missouri Task Force 1, having dedicated over half of his life to the volunteer fire service. He also coordinates GIS activity for both the Fire District and Task Force. On September 11, he was deployed along with Missouri Task Force 1 to New York City where the Task Force worked searching for victims. He has since been deployed to various hurricane-related deployments. Tony lives in Columbia with his wife Aimee, daughter Sophie and their three cats. On Saturdays in the fall, Tony can be seen driving Truman the Tiger around on his taxi (a restored 1954 White fire engine) at MU football games.
Mark E. Duewell
MSDIS Program Manager
GIS Specialist, Sr.
Rm. 20, Stewart Hall
University of Missouri,
Columbia, 65211 duewellm@missouri.edu
Born in Wichita, Kansas, Mark served with the US Air Force in Virginia (computer operations), Florida (Space Surveillance), California (low altitude satellite and shuttle programs) and Hawaii (Intelligence Center Pacific [IPAC]). He retired here in Missouri from Whiteman’s B-2 program after a tour at Khamis Mushayt, Saudi Arabia in support of a F117 Stealth unit deployed for Desert Storm.
His first exposure to GIS came while assigned to a joint service command under the Commander-in-Chief (CINC), Pacific at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Maps of air defense systems and targets were required on a daily basis to brief aircrew and forces under CINC’s command. As an aside - Mark also participated in mapping the security force locations for the Seoul Olympics.
After retirement Mark joined what was then the Missouri Dept. of Health’s Bureau of Environmental Epidemiology. Initially he provided computer/networking support for the Childhood Lead Poisoning and Prevention Program - later providing in-house support to the Division of Environmental Health and Communicable Disease Prevention in which the Bureau was located. In 1997 – at the request of the then Bureau Chief Daryl Roberts - Mark extended his GIS background by attending a series of trainings including ArcInfo training at Redlands, CA. Mr. Robert’s intent was build GIS analysis and mapping capability within the bureau and eventually within the division and department as a whole. As requests for services increased Mark began the expansion of the Technical Services unit that eventually numbered nine staff members providing GIS services to most of the department. These services included conducting geospatial exercises in support of emergency response, mapping disease, super fund sites, health services and assisting in risk analysis studies. In his initial years with the Department he also provided GIS training classes in-house as a means of increasing GIS usage in the department.
In 2003 Mark accepted a position with the Missouri Spatial Data Information Service (MSDIS) within the University of Missouri’s Geographic Resource Center (GRC), Department of Geography. As MSDIS Program Manager Mark coordinates the program’s activities with the GRC’s other activities. His co-workers are a small but highly competent staff whose contributions include , outreach & education, server administration, web services and database management. He is constantly looking to make improvements to the state geospatial data clearinghouse and services that MSDIS provides to its customers. He coordinates the Geospatial Training Center utilizing existing University facilities to provide a central Missouri GIS training location. Mark focuses much of his time on local government initiatives and outreach activities.
