November 2001

Posted November 30, 2001

525 McCone unavailable during...

525 McCone will not be available during
December 3rd thru 7th
and
December 10 thru 14th
It will be used for a PHRL Training Course.

If you have any questions, please email
gisc@gisc.berkeley.edu

Posted November 29, 2001

ACSM Map Design Competition

The deadline is fast approaching to enter the ACSM Map Design Competition! Entries must be received no later than December 1, 2001.

This contest, sponsored by the Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) of ACSM and the National Geographic Society, supports professional and student achievement in map design. Participants may enter in either the Professional or Student competitions.

Winners in the Professional category will be selected for:
* Best of Show, and
* Best of Category: Thematic, Book/Atlas, Reference, and Series

The Student Competition is sponsored by the National Geographic Society.
* This cash prize is awarded for the best student map submission
The official entry form and details are available
at: http://www.acsm.net/mapcontest.html.

Hope to see your entries soon, and good luck in the competition!

Aileen Buckley
Academic Director, CaGIS

Posted November 20, 2001

New Investigator Program (NIP)

NRA-01-OES-04

Please be advised that the research announcement, New Investigator Program (NIP) in Earth Science (NRA-01-OES-04), is currently open for proposals; the due date is 15 January 2002. The NIP is designed to encourage integrated environment for research and education (formal and informal) for scientists and engineers at the early stage of their professional careers in Earth Science. The proposed principal investigators must be recent Ph.D. recipients (graduating on or after 1 January 1996), with either US citizenship or legal permanent residency. See http://research.hq.nasa.gov/code_y/open.cfm for further details.

Posted November 14, 2001

GIS day at Berkeley

THE

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE CENTER

PRESENTS


GIS DAY
AT BERKELEY

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14

3PM 525 MCCONE HALL






A PRESENTATION ON THE FUNCTIONALITY OF GIS

GIS APPLICATIONS AND RESEARCH AT BERKELEY

GIS RESOURCES AND THE GEOGRAPHIC

INFORMATION SCIENCE CENTER

OPEN FORUM

Posted November 2, 2001

GeoCommunicator

Careers in Cartography and Gis

The Cartography and Geographic Information Society has completed a new version of the popular guide "Careers in Cartography and GIS."The document is now both a glossy color brochure and a web site. We hope to keep the web site up to date, and periodically update the brochure for reprinting. Approximately 10,000 have been distributed so far. Copies are available for purchase in bulk at the ACSM headquarters, contact information at: www.acsm.net

On line version is at:
http://www.acsm.net/cagis/CaGISCareerWeb