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Officers
Winter 2004
Issue 1 Vol 6
From the President's Desk
2003 Summer Assembly

An exciting summer assembly

Research Briefs

The Straw Report: Model Curricula

UCGIS hosted two workshops

Homeland Security Workshop held in Amicalola Falls, Georgia, November 6-7, 2003

Geospatial Visualization and Knowledge Discovery Workshop held in Landsdowne, Virginia, November 17-20, 2003
Upcoming Events

UCGIS 2004 Winter Meeting Focuses on Homeland Security

2004 Summer Assembly in conjunction with GIScience2004, College Park, Maryland, October 20-24, 2004
UCGIS web site adds new features
UCGIS 2004 Winter Meeting Focuses on Homeland Security
by Will Craig
Policy and Legislation Committee

UCGIS will hold its 2004 Winter Meeting in Washington, DC, during February 5-6. This year’s congressional program will be dedicated to the theme of homeland security. The Policy and Legislation Committee has selected seven presentations, from a large number of outstanding proposals, for this event to showcase the role of GI Science in addressing various homeland security issues. These presentations will report homeland security research activities at a number of member institutions that are supported by federal funding. The Congressional program will be followed by briefings to UCGIS delegates by federal agencies involved in GI Science. Discussion will center on grant opportunities in federal governments to support GI Science research.

For the list of the titles, abstracts, and speakers of the seven presentations, see http://www.ucgis.org/winter2004/program.htm.

UCGIS Summer Assembly 2004 in Conjunction with GIScience 2004
by Suzy Jampoler

This year, UCGIS will hold its annual Summer Assembly in conjunction with the conference of GIScience2004, October 20-23 in University of Maryland Conference Center, College Park, Maryland. Further information of the activities of the summer assembly will be available at the UCGIS web site http://www.ucgis.org.

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