OUR PRESIDENT
Steven B. Mckinney,
PhD
Owner, SICS
Steve McKinney, PhD is the President of
Spatial Information & Computing Systems
Consultants, LLC (known as SICS Consultants,
LLC). He began the company in 1998 as a
part-time venture and committed himself to full
time to the venture in late 2005. Dr. McKinney
spent 12 years in the Birmingham-Hoover
metropolitan area where he worked extensively in
the creation of many municipal geographic
information systems (GIS), environmental
management programs, network infrastructure
programs, hazard mitigation systems,
environmental planning and modeling systems, and
various other engineering and information
technology projects.
Dr. McKinney currently resides in Florence,
Alabama with his wife, Lee Ann, and son, Alex.
Dr. McKinney received a Bachelor of
Science degree in environmental geographic
information science in 1997, and a Master of
Science degree in environmental management in
1999 from Samford University. He completed his
Doctorate in environmental health engineering at
the University of Alabama, Birmingham in 2008.
In addition,
He is an Adjunct Professor at Samford University for graduate studies in environmental management and geography where he teaches Advanced GIS, Remote Sensing, and GIS in Environmental Management. Dr. McKinney has served as technical coordinator and GIS specialist for several outside projects, including one in Tsavo, Kenya, Africa with Samford University and the EPSCOR Project with NASA. He is a member of many professional organizations, and serves the Alabama Geographic Information Council (AGIC) as a Technical Subcommittee Member and served as the President for the URISA Alabama Chapter. In addition to Dr. McKinney’s many pursuits, he was listed as one of Birmingham’s “Top 40 Under 40” business people in 2005.
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Professional Organizations:
URISA – Alabama Chapter, Vice President, 2005
URISA – National Chapter, 2004
URISA – Alabama Chapter, Board of Directors, 2004
Alabama Geographic Information Council, Technical Subcommittee, 2002
Stormwater / Wastewater ESRI User's Group, 2000
American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing, 1998
Alabama ArcInfo User's Group, 1998
State of Alabama GIS User's Group, 1998
Publications/Abstracts/Posters/Presentations by Steve McKinney, SICS:
*McKinney, S. and Lalor, M. . 2004 American Water Resources Association (AWRA)
McKinney, S. Impacts of Urban Forests on Water Quality in Central Alabama. 2004 Auburn Water Quality Services Annual Conference
McKinney, S. Trees Worth Millions! 2004 Alabama Urban Forestry Association Annual Conference
McKinney, S. State of Forest in the Cities of Jefferson County. 2003 Storm Water Management Authority, Inc.
*Owens, J., Marion, K., Angus, R., Lalor, M., Meyer, E., and McKinney, S. Association between sedimentation potential as estimated by GIS technology, habitat assessment scores, and macroinvertebrate community structure metrics in small, Southeastern streams. 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists
*Owens, J., Marion, K., Angus, R., Lalor, M., Meyer, E., and McKinney, S. Utilization of GIS to Generate a Watershed Sedimentation Potential Index. 2002 American Water Resources Association (AWRA) Spring Specialty Conference for Coastal Water Resources
*Owens, J., Marion, K., Angus, R., Lalor, M., Meyer, E., and McKinney, S. Characterizing a Watershed Sediment Erosion Potential using GIS Technology. 2002 Annual Meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science.
*Owens, J., Angus, R., Lalor, M., Meyer, E., McKinney, S., and Marion, K. “An evaluation of sediment-sensitive biotic metrics as biomonitoring tools in the implementation of a watershed Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL).” Manuscript.
*Pending publication
*Measels, M. and McKinney, S. Mobile Geodatabase Generation Utilizing ArcObjects and GPS Integration 2002 Alabama Geographic Information Council (AGIC) GIS Symposium
McKinney, S. Every Picture Tells a Story: The Birmingham Metro’s New Satellite Imaging Program 2002 Birmingham-Southern’s 4th Annual Livable Cities Conference
McKinney, S. Modeling: A Planning Tool - Uses in planning on a watershed and site specific level 2001 Alabama Soil and Water Conservation Society Annual Meeting
McKinney, S. Birmingham Metro Remote Sensing and Interpretation for Urban Forestry Application 2001 Birmingham-Southern’s 3rd Annual Livable Cities Conference
McKinney, S. “Mapping the Taita” Water Writes – ESRI, 2001
Susan Harp, Children's Affairs Department Delivers Vital Data to Decision Makers Using ArcGIS Server. healthyGIS - Summer 2008.
Sean Flynt, A Sense of Place.