January 2004
Posted January 28, 2004UCGIS Winter Meeting Feb. 5-6
You can register on-line at http://www.ucgis.org/winter2004/eRegistration.htm
Please Join Our Members at the Annual UCGIS
Congressional Breakfast and Briefing
Thursday February 5, 2004
8:30 am - 10:00 am
Rayburn Building, Room B-339
Washington, DC
Federal Agency Briefing
Thursday February 5, 2004
11:30am-3:30pm
Longworth Building, Room 1539
The University Consortium for Geographic Information Science is hosting a breakfast and briefing on homeland security research using geographic information science (GISc). This research is funded through federal grants to our member universities. The briefing is sponsored by Representative Christopher Shays (Rep., 4th District, Connecticut) and Senator Charles Schumer (Dem., New York).
The breakfast and briefing agenda includes:
- Welcome Remarks
- Border Security Support
- Atmospheric Hazard Prediction
- Evacuation Planning
- Controlling Epidemics
- Protecting Critical Facilities
- Rapid Data Integration in Response To Unexpected Events
- Future Research Needs
The Federal Agency Briefing provides our members with the opportunity to hear about upcoming research grant opportunities at a variety of agencies.
UCGIS will also hold committee meetings and a Council meeting on Friday.
Spring 2004 Loan Desk Hours Available
UCGIS Winter Meeting Update
UCGIS is holding its Winter Meeting in Washington DC on Thursday Febraury 5 and Friday February 6, 2004. There are two main portions of the meeting:
1. Thursday:
Congressional breakfast and briefing
The program this year highlights seven member universitites. Presenters will be briefing Congress on recent advancements in homeland security research using geographic information science (GISc) and technology.
More information can be found at
http://www.ucgis.org/winter2004/program.htm.
Federal Agency Biefings
Several federal agencies will be briefing our members on up-coming research opportunities related to homeland security.
Details will be on the UCGIS web site soon.
2. Friday:
UCGIS Committee meetings and Council meeting. Agenda items include substantive program decisions for the coming year and elections.
If you have not yet registered please go to the UCGIS site http://www.ucgis.org/winter2004/eRegistration.htm.
There is no registration fee for the winter meeting.
I hope to see you there.
Suzy Jampoler
Call for Abstracts - 30th Congress of the IGU
The 30th Congress of the International Geographical Union
15 - 20 August 2004, Glasgow, UK
Call for Abstracts
Abstracts are invited for contributions to the academic program of the Congress. Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted to the Congress Secretariat, as soon as possible, and before 30 January 2004, for review by the Scientific Program Committee. Successful authors will be notified by mid February 2004.
Academic Paper Sessions
Academic program sessions in GISc. will take the form paper sessions. The standard length of the academic paper session will be 80 minutes with papers of 20 minutes (including questions). Intending delegates are strongly encouraged, however, to promote more innovative and participatory styles for the academic sessions: panel discussions, shorter papers with discussants, meet-the-author sessions, and so on.
Poster Presentations
Poster presentations are welcomed at the Congress. A dedicated poster area will be located inside the Exhibition area for the display and discussion of posters throughout the Congress. (Poster presenters will be notified of the times when they will be asked to attend their posters).
Format for Abstracts
Only abstracts that conform to the prescribed format outlined below will be accepted. Abstracts that do not follow this format will be returned to the authors for correction. All abstracts must be submitted via the Congress website.
Please follow these instructions in the writing of your abstract:
1. The abstract must fit one sheet of European Standard A4 paper (210mm x 297mm).
2. The preferred font and type size is 12 point Arial.
3. A 2cm margin should be left on all sides of the abstract.
4. The abstract title should be typed in 12 point Arial, bold, uppercase and should be left justified. A single line space must be left after the title.
5. The title, first initial, last name and job title of the presenting author should follow under the paper title, followed by each additional author on separate lines, with no line spaces in between. A single line space must then appear after the last author.
6. A single contact address, including e-mail, must be given for each presentation. A double line space should be left between the address and the body of the abstract.
7. The body of the abstract should be typed in upper and lower case. Abstracts should be typed in single spacing. All the text should be left justified.
8. The use of references, diagrams, photographs and graphs in abstracts is not permitted.
9. Leave one space between new paragraphs. No indentations should be used.
10. Abstracts should be no more than 250 words (including author details and presentation title). Abstracts exceeding this word limit will be reduced by members of the Program Committee
Presentations on topics related to GIScience must be submitted to the Congress Secretariat. For submission directions see the Congress web pages at
http://www.meetingmakers.co.uk/igc-uk2004/call.html
For further assistance please contact:
Professor Henk Ottens
University of Utrecht
Netherlands
H.Ottens@geog.uu.nl
Or
Professor Gregory Elmes
West Virginia University
USA
gelmes@wvu.edu
UCGIS Winter Meeting 2004 Funding Opportunities
Purpose: To provide financial support for emerging scientists in the GIScience community to attend the UCGIS Winter Meeting 2004.
Deadline for applications: Friday, January 16, 2004.
Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) and Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions (Intergraph) have provided funds to cover transportation and all expenses to the UCGIS summer assemblies and winter meetings for selected Young Scholars.
Eligibility: Individuals must be within their first five years of teaching at a UCGIS member institution or be in a post-doctorate research position at a UCGIS member institution.
Number of Awards: Up to 5 awards will be given depending on applicant pool.
Criteria: Members of the UCGIS Sponsored Programs Committee will rank and evaluate eligible applicants on a 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest) basis for each of 3 criteria:
Need
Interest in Specific Meeting
Academic Credentials
How to apply: Provide the following information electronically (either as text within an e-mail, a .pdf attachment, or an MS Word attachment).
Name, position, full contact information
A short paragraph indicating your need for the funding (100 words or less)
A paragraph (250 words or less) describing why you would like to attend the
specific meeting
One page vita highlighting your accomplishments to date
Send application information to: Dr. F. Benjamin Zhan, UCGIS Sponsored Programs Committee Chair, zhan@txstate.edu by Friday, January 16, 2004. In the event that not all available travel funding opportunities are used, we will fill requests on a first-come first-served basis after that date. Please place the following in the subject line of your e-mail to assure correct processing: UCGISYSP.
Requirements upon receipt: Should you be selected to receive an award you are required to do the following:
Provide a letter acknowledging the award to ESRI and Intergraph Corporation
c/o Dr. F. Benjamin Zhan, Chair, UCGIS Sponsored Programs Committee, Department of Geography, Texas State University,
San Marcos, TX 78666. (The letter will be copied to the representatives of ESRI and Intergraph).
Provide a recent photograph of yourself for possible press release.
Attend the UCGIS Winter Meeting 2004.
Provide a one page autobiography.
Call for Participation
GIScience 2004
Third International Conference on Geographic Information Science
University of Maryland Conference Center
College Park Campus, Maryland, USA
October 20-23, 2004
http://www.giscience.org
GIScience 2004 is the follow-up meeting to the highly successful GIScience 2000 and 2002 conferences. At each of the previous conferences in the series approximately 150 papers were selected for presentation from among a large international pool of submissions. GIScience 2004 will again bring together scientists from academia, industry, and government to analyze progress and to explore new research directions. It will focus on emerging topics and basic research findings across all sectors of geographic information science. The conference program aims to attract leading GIScience researchers from all fields to reflect the interdisciplinary breadth of GIScience, including cognitive science, computer science, engineering, geography, information science, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, social science, and statistics. The conference will be held at the conference center of the University of Maryland's College Park campus, within the Washington, DC metropolitan area and accessible from the Washington Metro and several major airports. Full details are available at http://www.giscience.org .
We solicit research papers in all areas of geographic information science. Since GIScience 2004 focuses on advances in the fundamentals of geographic information science, submission of GIS application papers is discouraged. To accommodate the variety of papers and presentations that result from an interdisciplinary melting pot, GIScience 2004 will give authors choices about the type of submission they wish to make.
* Full papers, consisting of 5,000-word manuscripts, will be thoroughly reviewed. Manuscripts must describe original work that has not been published before nor is currently under review elsewhere. Papers must be written in English, in 12-point type, and double-spaced. All submissions will be reviewed by three members of the international program committee, and high-quality submissions will be accepted for presentation at the conference and will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Full papers must be submitted by April 12, 2004.
* Extended abstracts of 500-1000 words, describing work in progress, will be screened by the program committee, and those submissions selected will be published in a booklet and be presented at the conference. Extended abstracts must be written in English, in 12-point type, and double-spaced. Extended abstracts will be received until June 28, 2004.
All submissions (full papers and extended abstracts) must be sent electronically to papers@giscience.org . Material can be submitted as PDF files or Microsoft Word files.
Important Dates
Apr 12, 2004: Full papers due
May 31, 2004: Review results of full papers transmitted to authors
June 28, 2004: Extended abstracts due
July 5, 2004: Camera-ready versions of accepted full papers due
October 20-23, 2004: Conference
Max J. Egenhofer, Christian Freksa, and Harvey J. Miller
Program Co-Chairs, GIScience 2004
max@spatial.maine.edu, freksa@sfbtr8.uni-bremen.de, harvey.miller@geog.utah.edu
GIScience 2004 is organized by:
National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (USA)
Association of Geographic Information Laboratories Europe
University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (USA)
Association of American Geographers
