Noteworthy - 2019 Oct 23, 2019 - InfoHarvest presented at the 2019 Tribal Habitat Conference
InfoHarvest was priviliged to be invited to the 2019 Tribal Habitat Conference hosted by the Skokomish Tribe. We gave a presentation titled "The EMDS-Ecosystem Management Decision Support Platform, In which we described how the evolving open EMDS platform can help leverage data and models to support decision making in the Puget Sound basin.

Oct 22, 2019 - InfoHarvest chaired a session at INFORMS 2019 on AI and SDS
InfoHarvest hosted a session titled "Combining AI, Spatial and Decision Analysis in a Decision Support System to Change the World" Convergence Accelerator at the Informs Annual meeting in Seattle. Keith Reynolds of the US Forest Service described how the EMDS platform is evolving with Version 8, Bill Levings of WHLevings showed how CDP running on the EMDS helps design portfolios of projects for a given budget, and InfoHarvest's CEO Philip Murphy showed how LPA's VisiRule rapid expert system building application can be used to identify what permits are required for projects in WA State.

Sep 12th, 2019 - InfoHarvest part of team winning NSF funding
InfoHarvest is part of a team that just received funding from the NSF for a Convergence Accelerator pilot. Our collaborative project is to develop an Open Knowledge Network for Spatial Decision Support. See the abstract here. As a first step, we are are working with collaborators here in the Puget Sound on datasets and knowledge related to water quality.

Apr 16th, 2019 - 2019 EMDS User Forum webinar
InfoHarvest participated in the 2019 EMDS User Forum webinar. The goal of this User Forum was to update users on the latest features in EMDS and discuss future development directions. There were brief demos of the four core modeling tools integrated in EMDS, and a workflow using all four for ecosystem recovery. See https://emds.mountain-viewgroup.com/blog.html for videos of presentations.

Mar 5th, 2019 - CDP4 Candidate Released
InfoHarvest has made the CDP4 RC version available to CDP4 Beta Users. This should be the last beta release before official release of CDP4 in Q4. Current CDP4 Beta users can download this update here.

Noteworthy - 2017

May 2017 - New CDP Engine delivered for use in EMDS
InfoHarvest has built a new CDP engine from the ground up and delivered it, as its first use, to the Ecosystem Management Decision Support System (EMDS v5).

Noteworthy - 2016

November 2016 - Released the final report of the Solar Energy and the Mojave Desert Tortoise project with the University of Redlands and the Calaifornia Energy commision. - http://www.energy.ca.gov/2016publications/CEC-500-2016-065 .

November 2016 - Spatial Decision Support Consortium has new web home
Infoharvest is a founding member fo the SDS Consortium, which has a moved to a new website - http://www.sdsconsortium.org .

Noteworthy - 2014

November 2014 - Aug 2015 - online MCDS for Santa Cruz Infoharvest used DecisionHarvest technology to provide online Multicriteria Decision support for the Santa Cruz Water Supply Advisory Board" planning process.

Noteworthy - 2013

Noteworthy - 2012

September 2012 -- Article on Ethics in public particpation
InfoHarvest CEO Philip Murphy and Carie Fox of Daylight Decisions authored a paper Sometimes Less Is Better: Ethics of Public Participation that was just published in Vol 14, issue 3 of Environmental Practice.

May 21-24 2012 Panel Discussion at NAEP 37th Annual Conference
At the 37th NAEP annual conference in Portland, OR, InfoHarvest cohosted a panel with Carie Fox titled "Stakeholder-Driven Organizationof Public Information" that investigates better ways to design websites so as to make complex decision information available to stakeholders and the public. See our presentation - Presentation on Findability - part of our panel on collaborative web design with Carie Fox and Rich Fairbanks

Noteworthy - 2011

Fall 2011 -- Principles for use of Technology in ECR released
InfoHarvest worked with the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution and the Department of Interior's Office of Collaborative Action and Dispute Resolution to draft a set of Guiding Principles for the Use of Technology in ECR Processes.

Jan 7th, 2011 Lightning Talk - 2011 GeoDesign Summit
InfoHarvest gave a presentation titled "GeoDesign without the Geo Goodies" at the 2011 GeoDesign Summit at ESRI in Redlands, CA.

Noteworthy - 2010

Dec 9th, 2010 Webinar - Technology and Environmental Conflict Resolution: Best Practices
InfoHarvest will give one of three talks in a webinar hosted by the ACR Environment and Public Policy Section The Webinar is titled Technology and Environmental Conflict Resolution: Best Practices. Please pre-register at the above link.

Dec 3rd, 2010 GSNM Draft EIS comment period closed.
Together with Carie Fox of of Fox Mediation and the US Institute for Environmental Conflicy Resolution, we launched a public participation website in support of the FS planning process for the Giant Sequoia National Monument. Our website uses MCDA to help the public get to the heart of the alternatives the Forest Service have reviewed in the GSNM Draft EIS. You can still explore the Decision Framework for yourself at gsnm.ecr.gov .

Nov 3rd, 2010 GSNM Draft EIS comment period extended to Dec 3rd.
Together with Carie Fox of of Fox Mediation and the US Institute for Environmental Conflicy Resolution, we launched a public participation website in support of the FS planning process for the Giant Sequoia National Monument. Our website uses MCDA to help the public get to the heart of the alternatives the Forest Service have reviewed in the GSNM Draft EIS. For one more month, explore the Decision Framework for yourself at gsnm.ecr.gov .

Aug 11th, 2010 GSNM Draft EIS website went live
Together with Carie Fox of of Fox Mediation and the US Institute for Environmental Conflicy Resolution, we've just launched a public participation website in support of the FS planning process for the Giant Sequoia National Monument. Our website uses MCDA to help the public get to the heart of the alternatives the Forest Service have reviewed in the GSNM Draft EIS. Explore the Decision Framework for yourself at gsnm.ecr.gov .

May 25th -27th 2010 ECR 2010, Tucson, AZ - InfoHarvest personnel co-delivered multiple sessions varying from "How to improve NEPA Documents" to a training on "Navigating Policy". See the ECR 2010 Conference website for more details on "ECR2010: Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution - Evolving to Meet New Opportunities.

April 26th - 30th 2010 DOI Conference on Environment, Portland, OR - Thursday, April 19th. 3:30PM - 5:00PM Dr. Murphy and Carie Fox of Fox Mediation lead a panel on "Deriving Greater Value from Public Comment". This session uses a novel approach to collaborative comment analysis to pose the question how to make comment gathering processes more collaborative and fruitful? See the Conference website for more details.

Jan 6-8th 2010 GeoDesign Summit, Redlands, CA InfoHarvest participated in the GeoDesign Summit, the first ever conference on merging GIS technology, engineering, particpatory design and planning in a rapidly changing world.

New & Noteworthy - 2009

October 2009 Rosemont Copper Project Comments Search Beta - InfoHarvest, working with the Coronado National Forest, published a Beta search capability for the more than 11,000 submission received during the Scoping period of the proposed Rosemont Copper Project. Click here to experiment with the search functionality.

Sept 22nd 2009 IAP2 Conference, San Diego, CA - Tuesday, Sept. 1:30PM - 3:00PM Dr. Murphy and Carie Fox of Fox Mediation present "More Powerful, More People". This session explores three techniques that create more powerful involvement opportunities for greater numbers of people. See the IAP2 site http://www.iap2.org for more details.

June 19th 2009 Giant Sequoia National Monument, Porterville, CA - Friday, June 19, 10:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.Alternatives workshop using MCDS at the Supervisors Office in Porterville, CA. See GSNM Planning pages for more info http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/sequoia/gsnm_planning.html

Sept 22nd 2009 IAP2 Conference, San Diego, CA - Tuesday, Sept. 1:30PM - 3:00PM Dr. Murphy and Carie Fox of Fox Mediation present "More Powerful, More People". This session explores three techniques that create more powerful involvement opportunities for greater numbers of people. Participants will discuss the way these techniques meet, challenge, and possibly expand collaborative theory. See the IAP2 site http://www.iap2.org for more details.

June 19th 2009 Giant Sequoia National Monument, Porterville, CA - Friday, June 19, 10:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.Alternatives workshop using MCDS at the Supervisors Office in Porterville, CA. See GSNM Planning pages for more info http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/sequoia/gsnm_planning.html

May 7th-9th, 2009 ECR Tech National Strategic Planning Session, Tucson, AZ - InfoHarvest is helping organize the first ECR Tech conference. The planning session, hosted by the Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, is to convene a national group of thought leaders, technology specialists, and ECR practitioners to develop a strategic plan for Technology in Environmental Conflict Resolution.

May 6th, 2009 NAEP 2009 Conference, Tucson, AZ - Dr. Philip Murphy and Carie Fox of Fox Mediation host a panel on Revolutionizing NEPA Comment analysis at the National Association of Environmental Professionals 2009 Conference in Tucson.

March-May 2009 Giant Sequoia National Monument, CA - InfoHarvest created an interactive site using MCDA to engage interested parties in the planning process for the Monument. The site launched as part of general scoping on March 18th, closed for comment gathering May 4th. Check it out at gsnmvibe.ecr.gov/hike.

New & Noteworthy - 2008

July - September 2008 Giant Sequoia National Monument, CA - InfoHarvest created an interactive site to engage interested parties in the planning process for the Monument at gsnm.ecr.gov.

July - August 2008 Giant Sequoia National Monument, CA - InfoHarvest created an interactive site to engage interested parties in the planning process for the Monument at gsnm.ecr.gov.

AMCIS 2008 August 14-17, 2008 Toronto, Canada - InfoHarvest CEO Philip Murphy and Dr Naicong Li of the Redlands Institute will be presenting a paper "Smart Knowledge Capture in Spatial Decision Support Systems" at the 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems.

ECR 2008 May 22, 2008 Tucson, AZ - InfoHarvest CEO Philip Murphy chairs a session on MCDA/GIS Collaboration on ECR (Environmental Conflict Resolution) at the National ECR Conference.

January 12, 2008 - Draft EIS for Western Oregon Plans Revision (WOPR) Web Forum now closed. Thousands of comments were gathered through the forum, a public outreach website created by InfoHarvest and its partners.

New & Noteworthy - 2007

August, 2007 - Draft EIS for Western Oregon Plans Revision (WOPR) Web Forum now online. Follow the link to the Web Forum.

New & Noteworthy - 2006

October, 2006 - CCWES Service District#1 Wastewater Public Outreach Survey a success.