Blaise Grden

Biography

Blaise Grden is a landscape architect with the US Army Corps of Engineers in Vicksburg, MS. He is an expert in the use of GIS for master planning and has served on numerous district GIS committees. Grden completed the first Master Plan for a Corps Water Resource Project that fully used GIS technology and demonstrated the data set at the Pentagon, the Library of Congress, and throughout Corps of Engineers Districts. He was a Product Manager and Designer of the Digital Project Notebook, a Web-based format of project maps and index sheets for the Corps. Blaise previously worked at the Walla Walla District in Washington State where he received the Achievement Medal for Civilian Service for GIS and Database and the Tri-service GIS/Spatial Data Standards. He also received the 1994 Architectural Award for the landscape architecture on the Walla Walla District Headquarters Building. He has authored many publications, including “The Interrelationship of Geographic Information Systems with Master Plans and Operational Management Plan.” He is currently working on the creation of a national Corps Master Plan Program to encourage planning and the use of GIS throughout the Corps of Engineers.