GIScience Bowl
Background, Rules, Solicitation of Questions
Each summer at the annual assembly meeting of
UCGIS, three-person graduate student teams compete to capture
the title of GIScience Bowl National Champions. Teams form
informally on the evening of the event. Each team has
representation typically from different universities and
different academic areas. Each team is assigned a well-known
leading academic in the discipline who serves as a "lifeline"
for the team up to two times during the event.
The rules for the competition are stated at
the beginning of the
sample questions.
With lots of hoopala and an "official panel of experts" in the
audience for disputed calls, we run a qualifying and a final
competition round. Each member of the winning three-person team
is proclaimed as "Geographic Information Science Bowl - National
Champion" for the year and receives suitable awards, accolades
and cheers.
Previous Year
Champions
Please Send Us Questions and Answers!
We need your help in constructing questions
for the competition. For the purpose of the competition we are
defining Geographic Information Science as incorporating
knowledge from the following thirteen areas:
1. cartography,
2. cognitive science,
3. computer science,
4. engineering and land surveying,
5. environmental sciences,
6. geodetic science,
7. geography,
8. geographic information systems and spatial
technologies
9. landscape architecture, planning, &
transportation
10. law, information policy, and organizations
11. remote sensing and digital photogrammetry,
12. statistics, geostatistics and spatial
analysis,
13. history of GIScience, UCGIS, & odds and ends
Questions must in a multiple choice format
although the professorial explanation of how you justify your
answer may be much longer. Consult the
sample questions used in
previous competitions.
For each suggested question, please supply:
(a) the question,
(b) the category of the question (i.e. number 1
through 13 in the above list)
(c) the answer,
(d) four distracters,
(e) your name as the authority for the answer
and/or an authoritative reference for the answer.
Please send your questions as part of the text
of an e-mail message (NOT an attachment) to onsrud@spatial.maine.edu
at any time up to a week before the date of competition. We look
forward to hearing from you soon!
