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.