Education
B.S. California State University, Sacramento, 1968
M.A. University of Illinois, Urbana, 1969
Professional
Mike serves as Principal Investigator, Co-Principal Investigator or Academic Administrator for contracts and grants awarded to projects involving the development aggregation and dissemination of environmental information. He acts as a project manager, supervisor and information resource; is responsible for communicating with individuals and groups in order to ascertain informational requirements; works with a variety of agencies, committees and funding sources, synthesizes input and works to achieve consensus on the best strategy for receiving and integrating, and presenting required data; implements the strategy and reports results; responsible for project funding and finance and staff management. He bears significant responsibility for reporting findings and data to members of technical and political communities. His current projects include studies of species distribution, impaired water bodies, land use and infrastructure planning policy, and data aggregation and distribution problems.
Membership in Professional Societies
American Planning Association
California Planning Roundtable
California Association for Fire Ecology
Research and Teaching Experience
1981-1996 Director, Land Use and Natural Resource Programs, UC Davis Extension
1993-Present Co-Director, Information Center for the Environment, UC Davis
Selected Publications
Michael McCoy, James F. Quinn, Naomi Kalman, Michael Byrne Identifying Environmental and Agricultural Values and Opportunities for Regional Planning: A GIS Approach Prepared for the Sacramento Council of Governments. See also: SACOG Project or SACOG Paper
Jill Kearney; Joshua Viers; Karen Willett; Michael McCoy, and James F. Quinn. Using GIS to improve water quality reporting in California. 1999 ESRI User Conference Proceedings.
Chad D. Shook; Mary E. Madison; Karen W. Willett; James F. Quinn, and Michael C. McCoy. Applied Geographic Information Systems in Cooperative Natural Resource Projects: A California Example. 1999 ESRI User Conference Proceedings
Kaylene E. Keller; Michael C. McCoy, and James F. Quinn. Protection Status of California's Hardwood Riparian Habitat. 1998 ESRI User Conference Proceedings.
Eric W. Lehmer; Gail S. Lampinen; Mike C. McCoy, and James F. Quinn. ICEMAP2 (Interactive California Environmental Management, Assessment, and Planning System Mark 2): A MapObjects based Internet Mapping Service. 1998 ESRI User Conference Proceedings.
Joshua H. Viers; Michael C. McCoy; James F. Quinn; Gail Lampinen; Eric Lehmer, and Karen Beardsley . California Rivers Assessment: Assembling Environmental Data to Characterize California?s Watersheds. 1998 ESRI User Conference Proceedings.
Karen Beardsley; James F. Quinn; Eric Lehmer, and Michael C. McCoy. California riparian evaluation system: an arcview decision support tool for environmental management. 1997 ESRI User Conference Proceedings.
