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From the President’s Desk:
The good things.
 What pleases me most about my role in
UCGIS is the dedication and willingness of a fairly large number of
people to get involved in the organization. Whatever success UCGIS has
achieved is due to the efforts of these people to make good things
happen. In no special order, many of the good things are:
- The global indicators continuation
grant.
- The outstanding and sensitive
program in Washington, D.C. last February at a very delicate time in
American history.
- The sincere interest in doing
something for Homeland Security.
- The joint sponsorship of the
superb GIScience 2002 meeting in Boulder.
- The plans for meetings in
Washington, D.C. and Asilomar for February and June 2003,
respectively.
- The Summer Assembly in Athens that
consumed people’s interests in striking out into new GIScience
challenges.
- The impressive progress being made
on developing the Model Curricula.
- The continued and positive
participation in FGDC and other extra-organizational activities such
as the US-Mexico Bi-National Urban Planning organization and the
Joint Statistical Meetings.
- Our representation in Europe at
AGILE and in the US at CSISS.
- The further development of our web
site.
- The new benefits brochure.
- Grants from our commercial members
for young scholars, homeland security, and the model curricula.
- The recognition of remarkable
scholars for researcher and educator of the year awards.
- The development of a long term
approach for strategic planning.
- Our continued interest in
expressing our point of view to congressional representatives and
government agency leaders.
It takes many people to plan and carry
out all of these activities. Perhaps too much is done by too few, but
the door is wide open for you to get involved. Let the board know of
your willingness to take on UCGIS responsibility.
Art Getis
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