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UNIVERSITY CONSORTIUM FOR GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE
2007 Summer Assembly ▪ June 27–28, 2007
AGENDA

 

Slide Show

 

Venue

   

Lake Yellowstone Lodge and Cabins
Lake Yellowstone Hotel and Cabins

Yellowstone Montana
307-344-7311

     

Tuesday June 26

6:00 – 9:00 pm

Board Dinner [Officers, Directors, Chairs]

 

     

Wednesday June 27

8:00 – 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 
8:30 – 8:45 am

Welcome and Introductions

8:45 – 9:45 am

Research Plenary:
"Ongoing and Impending Global Climate Change: What do we know & What don't we know?"
Klaus Wolter, NOAA

Part APart A
 
Part BPart B
9:45 – 10:45 am

Research Plenary:
Identifying Patterns of Human Vulnerability toPart B Global Change through Integration of Geographic Databases
Marc Levy, CIESIN Assoc Dir. for Science Applications, Columbia University

10:45 – 11:00 am

Break

 
11:00 – 12:00 pm

Research Plenary:
GIScience and the Local Dimensions of Global Change
Brent Yarnal, Director, Center for Integrated Regional Assessment, Penn State Univ.

12:00  – 1:00 pm Luncheon  
1:00 – 2:00 pm

Large Group Structured Discussion:
What’s Next for UCGIS Research Workshops?


 
2:00 – 3:00 pm

Research Workshop Breakout Discussions

Presentation Slides
 
Cyberinfrastructure for GIScience or Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure

 

Extending Geographic Information (E.G.I.): Getting Applied GIScience Applied

 

Geographically Contextualized Modeling Contextualized Modeling of Human and Natural of Human and Natural Systems in Time and Systems in Time and Space
Group BCD breakout
3:00 – 3:30 pm

Break

 

3:30 – 4:30 pm

Research Plenary:
President-Elect Robert McMaster

4:45 – 6:00 pm

Committee Meetings:
Education; Communications; Special Projects

 
6:30 – 8:00 pm

Dinner

 
     

Thursday June 28

8:00 – 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 
8:30 – 8:45 am

Introductions

 

8:45 – 10:15 am

Education Plenary Panel:
“GeoSpatial Literacy Education”

 
GIS&T as General Education
David DiBiase, Pennsylvania State University
Skill Standards for GIS Technician Training
Phillip Davis, Del Mar College
Robert McMaster, University of Minnesota
Fundamentals of Spatial Thinking for Learning in the Social Sciences
Donald Janelle, University of California, Santa Barbara

10:15– 10:30 am

Break

 

10:30 – 12:00 pm

Education/Research Panel:
“Integrating GIScience Teaching and Research”

Presentation Slides
Remote sensing data for use in problem-solving & research experiences
Carolyn Merry, Ohio State University
[PDF]
Linking GIScience Research and Undergrad Teaching
Tim Nyerges, University of Washington
[PDF]
Retooling Research and Research Experiences for Use in an Instructional Context
Dawn Wright, Oregon State University
Duane Marble, Ohio State University

12:00  – 1:00 pm

Luncheon

 

1:00 – 3:00 pm

Student Sessions: 1 & 2
Six student speakers

 

3:00 – 3:15 pm

Break

 

3:15 – 4:30 pm

Committee Meetings
Policy & Legislation; Research; Membership

 

 

 

4:30 – 6:00 pm

Council Meeting

6:30 – 8:00 pm

Dinner

 

6:30 – 10:00 pm

Board Meeting [Officers, Directors, Chairs]

 
 
 
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