Dana J Caccamise II, P.h.D. is NOAA's National Geodetic Survey’s (NGS) Pacific Southwest Region Geodetic Advisor. He assists the geospatial community throughout California and Nevada—including public- and private-sector surveyors, GIS professionals, engineers, and earth scientists—with the proper application of the National Spatial Reference System.

Dana has been part of the NGS since 2014 and has graduate degrees in Earth Sciences, Geophysics, and Geodesy and currently resides in San Diego, California. The California Spatial Reference Center (CSRC), located at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), is hosting his position. Dana also holds a Research Associate position in the SIO’s Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP).