Jim DePasquale, Spatial Analyst, The Nature Conservancy. Jim is a certified Geographic Information Systems Professional and has been employed with The Nature Conservancy for five years. Jim has led several partnership-based mapping projects in Alaska in support of the USGS 3D Elevation program and the National Hydrographic Dataset. Jim is a member of the Alaska Hydrographic Technical Working Group and holds a graduate certificate in GIS from Penn State University as well as undergraduate degrees in forestry and economics.