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The Driven by Data Conference will be held November 11-12 at the
Regal Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. This is a new multi-disciplinary
conference tailored specifically for experienced professionals in geography,
GIS, and related geospatial technologies. Driven by Data was developed
by the Association of American Geographers (AAG), the Geospatial
Information Technology Association (GITA), and the Urban and Regional
Information Systems Association (URISA), and is co-sponsored by the UCGIS. Main features of the event include:
- A singular focus on a topic of vital interest to the broad geoscience community - data;
- Leading user and vendor technical and industry figures as invited presenters;
- A technical program highly targeted to advanced users of geospatial technology; and
- A multi-disciplinary assessment of the future outlook for the geospatial technology industry.
focused on three essential components of geospatial data:
Spatial Data Architecture
Internet and Intranet Applications
Copyright and Legal Issues
For more information visit see the web site at: http://www.drivenbydata.org, which will include PowerPoint files of speaker presentations.
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Member Applications for 2000
by Carolyn Merry, UCGIS Membership Chair
The deadline for member applications to UCGIS has been extended to 15
December 1999 so that applications can be considered for the February 2000
Council Meeting that will be held in Washington, DC. Details on the
application procedure can be found at http://www.ucgis.org/fmapplic.html.
It was 5 years ago that the first 30 members first formed the UCGIS. At the
June meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota, it was decided that rather than
have all 30 members submit updated portfolios that we would roll
these renewals in 10 members at a time. The first group of 10 member institutions that volunteered to submit our updated portfolios
includes:
UC-Berkeley
Univ of Georgia
Louisiana State Univ
Univ of Maine
Univ of Minnesota
State Univ of NY - Buffalo
Ohio State University
Oregon State Univ
Rutgers Univ
West Virginia Univ
The deadline for completion of these updates is 15 December 1999.
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The tentative schedule of events to be held in conjunction with the UCGIS
winter 2000 meeting in Washington D.C. is given below.
You are also invited to nominate a geographic information science research or
demonstration project in which your university is involved for presentation
at this Washington D.C. meeting. Project presentations are tentatively
planned for Tuesday morning February 8 at a location on Capitol Hill.
Invited to the presentations will be members of Congress and their staffs,
federal agency personnel involved in geographic information science
research, selected individuals from related professional organizations, and
all individuals attending the annual UCGIS winter meeting.
Project personnel from approximately six selected projects will present 20
minute highlight talks on their geographic information science research or
demonstration projects. The projects highlighted should involve strong
local/federal cooperation or a strong federal funding component that
exhibits demonstrable benefits for the state or nation. The selection
panel will be looking for a mix of projects that range from basic to
applied research in geographic information science as well as projects that
make use of geographic information technologies to advance science in a
related discipline or that are addressing major social problems of local or
national concern. The FGDC local demonstration projects and university
involvement with these projects are obvious projects to consider but there
are many other major geographic information science projects that have
involved federal support that would be appropriate to highlight.
Nominations should include the following information:
- Title of Project or Submission
- Name, affiliation, address, phone, fax and e-mail of proposed lead presenter
- Short project description which describes the objectives of the work,
significance of the project in advancing science or addressing an important
problem, activities undertaken, methods employed, and broader impacts of
the activity. No more than 400 words please.
- Funding sources and names of any collaborators on the project
- Tentative additional co-authors, if any, of the eventual article
describing the project (to be produced if selected, no more than 10 pages
or 5000 words)
- Name of a member of Congress from your state who has helped support
funding for the advancement of science generally, the university generally
or the project specifically. If your project is selected, this member of
Congress will be invited to say a few words, as an introduction to your
presentation, about the importance of scientific advancement to the well
being of people in your state and/or the value of local/federal cooperation
in solving pressing problems such as that addressed by your project. That
is, a project from their state was competitively selected to be highlighted
in this national forum and, as a member of Congress who supports the
advancement of science and local/federal cooperation, we would be pleased
to have them say a few words about the good work being accomplished in your
state and its importance to the nation.
A photographer will be hired to take photographs and press releases will be
issued to appropriate state newspapers immediately after the event - the
same day.
Please submit your nomination as part of the text of an email message (not
an attachment) on or before November 22 to all members of the Project
Presentation Selection Committee. The members of the committee include:
Will Craig, wcraig@atlas.socsci.umn.edu
Greg Elmes, gelmes@geo.wvu.edu
Bill Huxhold, hux@csd.uwm.edu
David Mark, dmark@geog.buffalo.edu
Harlan Onsrud, onsrud@spatial.maine.edu
During our planned UCGIS activities in Washington DC in February,
will also host a series of dialogues with federal agencies that
are funding university projects involving geographic information science or
geographic information technologies. This session is tentatively set for
Tuesday afternoon February 8 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
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UCGIS Winter 2000 cont.
Six agencies will be invited to give a brief (10 minute) presentation on
the mission of their agency, how funding of university research is helping
to advance their mission, specifically describe any current university
projects involving GI science or technologies that are being funded, and
mention upcoming funding opportunities. Each presentation will be followed
by a 20 minute discussion period. A half hour open session will be
scheduled at the end of the six presentations with a table for each agency
so that individual researchers may talk one-on-one with agency personnel.
There are many agencies that we might choose to invite but we have room for
only six on our schedule this year. Among the agencies that might be
considered for invitation include NIH, DOT, NIMA, HUD, USGS, NASA, US-AID,
CDC, DARPA, EPA, BLM, USFS, NSF, etc. Although one objective of these
dialogue sessions is to learn about upcoming agency funding opportunities,
another major objective is to acquaint agency personnel with UCGIS
researchers, to inform the agencies about related projects that may be
ongoing in the GI science academic community, and to introduce them to the
research expertise encompassed by the UCGIS membership.
Specifically, here is what Will Craig needs from UCGIS members:
- Which six specific agencies would you most like to see make
presentations or have the opportunity to inform about the types of
expertise that your university has available? Please consider a mix of
traditional and non-traditional funding sources for GI science projects.
- If you have an appropriate contact at one or more of these agencies,
please provide me with a specific name, title, phone number and email of
this contact person at each agency.
- We will set up a web page linking all of the detailed information on
funding opportunities offered by these six selected agencies well in
advance of the meeting so that our UCGIS members may be well informed about
each agency's funding programs prior to attending. So if you happen to
have the web addresses for funding opportunities at specific agencies,
please send those along as well.
The tentative scheduled activities surrounding the UCGIS winter meeting
follow below:
PROPOSED SCHEDULE FOR UCGIS ANNUAL MEETING AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
FEBRUARY 6-8, 2000 WASHINGTON, D.C.
Note: Monday and Tuesday are the critical days for all UCGIS delegates to
attend. Monday is the primary day for accomplishing UCGIS business.
Tuesday is the very best day of the week to involve members of Congress,
their staffs, and personnel from federal agencies. The following schedule
attempts to minimize time away from classes while allowing for a Saturday
night stay for those choosing to take advantage of inexpensive flights.
All board members and committee chairs should plan to arrive on Saturday.
It is assumed that most UCGIS delegates will return home using very early
flights on Wednesday morning.
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 6 - Afternoon
UCGIS Committee Meetings
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 6 - Evening
Dinner at local restaurant. Informal gathering.
MONDAY FEBRUARY 7 - Morning
Open time for UCGIS members to visit Congressional offices. Materials will
be prepared for distribution to the Congressional offices and talking
points will be provided.
UCGIS Board Meeting (Board members and committee chairs only)
MONDAY FEBRUARY 7 - Afternoon
UCGIS Council Business Meeting
Among the agenda items include committee reports, elections, voting on new
members, consideration of re-applications of current members, new business,
etc.
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 8 - Morning
Presentation of featured GI science research or demonstration projects from
around the nation.
a. Project personnel from approximately six selected projects will present
20 minute highlight talks on GI science research or demonstration projects.
b. UCGIS vision for further scientific advancement
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 8 - Afternoon
Dialogues with federal agencies that are funding university projects
involving geographic information science or geographic information
technologies.
a. Featured agency presentations
b. One-hour open
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 8 - Evening
Reception highlighting the research projects, programs and personnel of
UCGIS universities.
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The topic of next summer's assembly theme and its organizational structure
are now being worked on by the Education and Research committees in coordination
with the UCGIS executive and committee chairs. Any suggestions for
themes and activities are warmly encouraged should be sent to these
individuals. Please mark your calendars now for:
June 21-24, 2000
UCGIS Summer Assembly
near Mt. Hood, OREGON
Note also that this does NOT overlap with the ESRI User Conference, which
is scheduled for June 26-30, 2000. The web site for the event is: http://www.ucgis.org/oregon, which already
has quite a few details, and will be frequently updated in the coming months.
Considering the delightful locale for this meeting it's not too early to
start planning a summer vacation around this event!
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UCGIS continues to enjoy a fruitful partnership with Geo Info Systems, currently the #1 trade journal devoted
specifically to applications in GIS and related spatial technologies, as well as market trends. UCGIS researchers are strongly encouraged to continue using the journal as an outlet for short articles about our work. Specifically the editor
is looking for authors for the column "Academic Pursuits". Recent contributors to
"Academic Pursuits" include
Barbara Buttenfield ("Delivering Geospatial Data: The
Future of the Spatial Information Infrastructure", June 1997), Karen
Kemp and Richard Wright ("UCGIS Identifies GIScience Education Priorities",
September 1997 and
Mike Goodchild ("Uncertainty: The Achilles Heel of GIS?", November 1998). The March 1999 issue focused on education,
training, research and GIS on the Internet, and featured an article by Dawn Wright on the recent UCGIS Virtual Seminar. Slots during Y2K are completely open.
Please contact Scottie Barnes for more information:
Scottie Barnes
Editor, Geo Info Systems
859 Williamette Street
Eugene, OR 97401-6806
Tel: 541/984-5259 Fax: 541/344-3514
sbarnes@advanstar.com or
editorial-gis@geoinfosystems.com
Another outlet that wants to focus on the UCGIS is the new ESRI GIS
Educators Newsletter, edited by Mike Phoenix, with the
major goal of acknowledging the work of the UCGIS in the setting
an agenda for the discussion of GIS and education. Mike
hopes to include a contribution from the UCGIS in every issue to
help the UCGIS reach a much wider audience. The newsletter
will be published digitally on the ESRI Web site and mailed out in print
format to anyone interested in receiving it. Please send submissions
and ideas to Mike Phoenix at mphoenix@esri.com.
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