Tribal Capacity Building: ArcGIS Pro Training

Salmonid Restoration Federation (SRF), California Indian Environmental Alliance and Humboldt Area Foundation offered two ArcGIS workshops for tribal members and tribal staff working on Natural Resources and Fisheries. This course was funded by a NOAA Fisheries Office of Habitat Conservation grant focused on Climate Resilience planning and Tribal Capacity Building.
 

Seth Avram LaRosa led the ArcGIS Pro Training which will be offered over two days at the Natural Resources GIS Lab at Cal Poly Humboldt January 7 - 8, 2026. Seth is a PhD Candidate in Environmental Science, Policy & Management at UC Berkeley and a researcher with the Cannabis Research Center. Seth specializes in geospatial data analysis. His work focuses on Indigenous land governance, cannabis regulation, and environmental justice in California. Learn more at https ://crc.berkeley.edu

 

 

 

No previous GIS experience is required. Participants will learn core skills in ArcGIS Pro, including navigating the interface, working with vector and raster data, creating maps, and understanding foundational concepts such as coordinate systems, projections, and basic geospatial analysis.

 

Thursday, January 8, 10am - 3pm
 

This workshop assumes basic familiarity with ArcGIS Pro (opening projects, adding layers, simple edits, and navigating the ribbon/tools). We will build on those skills with hands-on workflows for some of the core GIS functionality within ArcPro: spatial analysis, creating and managing datasets, organizing geospatial projects, incorporating remote-sensing products, and producing high-quality maps for Tribal environmental and cultural resource work.

 

• Esri Tribal GIS Page
• Native Nations GeoHub
• Tribal GIS Book 
• Story Map Challenge
• Invasion of America
• Tribal GIS .com
• NAHC Digital Atlas
• NativeLand.ca