Gary Ostroff, P.E.
Senior Project Manager, HydroQual, Inc.
www.hydroqual.com
Vice President, CommunityCartography, Inc. www.ComCarto.com
Education:
M.A., Analytical Geography, Hunter College
- CUNY, 1993
B.E., Civil Engineering, The City College of
New York -CUNY, 1985
A.B. History Art and Archaeology, magna
cum laude, Princeton University, 1979
Licensed Professional Engineer
Member of Esri Authorized Teaching Program: Introduction to ArcView
Publications and Presentations
"Integration of Air and Water Quality Models with
ArcView". Northeast Arc Users Conference, November
9, 1999.
"Screening Level GIS Tools for Modeling
Environmental Contamination from Mining Activities,"
Anid, P., G. Ostroff, F. Hellweger and D. Hartman, 19th Annual
Esri International User Conference, San Diego, July 28, 1999.
Technical Discussion of "Flow Investigation for
Landfill Leachate," Paper 4651. ASCE Journal of
Environmental Engineering, January 1996.
"Flaubert on the Internet," Journal of
the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, Vol. 6,
No. 2, Fall 1994.
Book Review of "The GIS Book - A
Practioner's Guide." GeoInfo Systems, January 1994.
Book Review of "The Power of
Maps." The Journal of the Urban and Regional
Information Systems Association, Fall 1993.
"A Simple Raster System to Create
Random Point Sets for Ground Truthing", GeoInfo
Systems, February, 1992, and presented at the Northeast Arc/Info
Users Conference, September, 1992, Stamford, CT.
"Modeling Variable Width Buffer
Zones Using a Geographic Information System",
Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers Water
Forum '92 Conference, Baltimore, MD, 1992.
"Using a Geographic Information
System to Analyze the Effects of Sea Level Rise",
with S. Tucker, in Global Climate Change: Implications,
Challenges, and Mitigation, S.K. Majumdar ed., Pennsylvania
Academy of Science, and in Proceedings of the Middle States/New
England Division of the American Association of Geographers
Conference, Storrs, CT, 1990.
"Planning a GIS for the New York City Bureau of
Water Supply", presented at the Sixth Annual New
York State Geographic Information Systems Conference, Syracuse,
NY October, 1990.
"Can the Principles of Professionalism be
Measured?", Journal of Professional Issues in
Engineering, July, 1986. Winner of the American Society of Civil
Engineer Daniel W. Mead National Essay Contest, 1984.