UCGIS Fellows
Program
Since 2010,
UCGIS has acknowledged those individuals who have contributed to the
advancement of geographic information science and technology. The
grade of Fellow is bestowed on the recipient who has had an
extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the spatial
disciplines and communities of practice that use spatial information
to complement and support their business operations or personal
activities.
The Fellows
Program seeks to represent all people involved in the spatial
community by drawing on the following descriptions of spatial
disciplines and communities of practice:
Spatial disciplines
– cartography, computer science, geodesy, geography, geographic
information science, global positioning systems, photogrammetry,
remote sensing, surveying
Communities of practice
– agriculture, defense, education, emergency management, forestry,
health, environment, land administration, local government, natural
resource management, tourism, transportation, urban planning,
landscape architecture, and more
Candidates for
Fellow must be nominated by a lead delegate of a UCGIS member
institution or an existing Fellow. Candidates for Fellow should have
an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the spatial
disciplines and communities of practice that intersect with the core
area of Geographic Information Science and Technology within UCGIS.
Candidates with exceptional service to UCGIS will receive extra
consideration, but it is not necessary that a candidate have
provided service to UCGIS in order to be elected to Fellow.
Exceptional service to the greater GIScience and Technology
community will also be consider highly desirable.
A
nomination form must be
accompanied by at least three and no more than six letters of
support as described in the nominating instructions. UCGIS provides a collection of
frequently asked questions
that might help.
A brief
citation is issued to new Fellows describing their accomplishments.
Below are
three links that contain information on all of the Fellows of the
UCGIS. The primary purpose of this page is to serve as a resource
for any UCGIS fellow nominator seeking references for their
candidate. The first link is listed by date order. It contains the
Fellow's full name and citation. The second link is listed in
alphabetical order by family name and it contains the Fellow's full
name, citation, and the year he/she became a UCGIS Fellow. The third
link shows the most recent class of Fellows. It contains the
Fellow's full name and citation.
Chronological list of Fellows
Alphabetical list of Fellows
2010 Class
of Fellows
UCGIS Fellows Program History
The grade of
Fellow was approved by the Board of Directors at the 2009 UCGIS
Summer Assembly. The grade of Fellow is intended to recognize
geographic information scientists, engineers, and practitioners who
have demonstrated outstanding scholarship and achieved distinction
in the profession.
Three scholars
were chosen by the UCGIS Board of Directors as the (first class)
2010 Class of Fellows for their service contribution as UCGIS
president in addition to their exemplary record of scholarship
contributing to geographic information science.
From 2010 onwards, candidates for Fellow will be nominated by a lead
delegate of a UCGIS member institution or an existing Fellow.
Candidates will be elected to Fellow by the Board of Directors. The
total number of elected Fellows in any one year does not exceed six
individuals."FELLOW – a geographic
information scientist, engineer or practitioner of unusual
professional distinction, with outstanding and extraordinary
qualifications and experience in the field of geographic
information science and technology."
Elements of Nomination
To nominate an individual for the
Grade of Fellow, the initiating sponsor shall provide UCGIS
headquarters with the following information in the sequence
outlined by 31 October. The nomination may be submitted to
headquarters as a Microsoft Word signed document attached to an
e-mail, sent to the attention of Jack Sanders at
ucgis@cox.net .
Alternatively, you may send six copies by postal mail to:
UCGIS
Fellow Committee
PO Box 15079
Alexandria, VA 22309
Instructions and Nomination
Forms
Grade of Fellow Nomination
INSTRUCTIONS (HTML
or
PDF).
Grade of Fellow NOMINATION
FORM (Word
document, you can type directly into this form and then send
it to UCGIS).
FORM (PDF
document; this is included for your convenience, but a PDF
document CANNOT be altered and you CANNOT save into a PDF
document)
