Tuesday June 15..

GIS&T: Transformation, Education and Futures

Geospatial/geographic has fundamentally influenced many aspects of society in many different ways. People are becoming increasingly spatially aware, though, perhaps, not necessarily increasingly spatially literate, at least to start. GIS&T are finding their way, both directly and indirectly, into many aspects of education. Given the proliferation of GIS&T, what does this mean to the related educational enterprise(s) and research on geospatial/geographic education?

Time	Event
7:30-8:15 am	Continental Breakfast
8:15 - 8:30 am	Welcome and Introductions – Tim Nyerges, University of Washington, UCGIS President
8:30 - 10:00 am	Plenary: Teaching Ethics in GIS&T: Final Results of NSF Funded Research on Ethics in GIS&T Education                (Presentation slides) Dawn Wright and Francis Harvey
10:15 - 10:30 am	Break
10:30 - Noon	Student Paper Session     Won Kyung Kim (student, Arizona State University) and Elizabeth Wentz (Arizona State University) Complicated Simplicity: A Case Study on Urban Open Spaces in Phoenix Metropolitan Area Sarah Cordivano (student, University of Pennsylvania) Measuring the Impact of a Decade of Labor and Delivery Unit Closures in Philadelphia Ping Yin (student, University of Georgia), Lan Mu (University of Georgia), and John Radke (University of California, Berkeley) Gamma-Partition: A Clustering Method for Spatial Point Pattern Analysis Isaac I.T. Ullah (student, Arizona State University) A GIS Method for Assessing the Zone of Human-Environmental Impact Around Archaeological Sites: A Test Case from the Late Neolithic of Wadi Ziqlâb, Jordan
Noon -  1:15 pm	Working Luncheon – Identifying priorities for GIS&T research and pedagogy for 2010 and beyond. An interactive, forward looking exercise to help chart the course for GIS&T research and education
1:15 - 2:45 pm	Junior Faculty Paper Session    Woo Jang (student, University of Georgia) and Xiobai Yao (University of Georgia) Interpolating Spatial Interaction Data Qingmin Meng (faculty, University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Two Local-Spatial Interpolators: Regression Kriging Versus Geographically Weighted Regression Hyowon Ban (faculty, California State University Long Beach) and Ola Ahlqvist (Ohio State University) Representing and Negotiating Uncertain Geospatial Concepts
2:45 - 3:00 pm	Break
3:00 - 4:15 pm	Committee Meeting –                  Education Committee – Brandon Plewe, Brigham Young University, Chair
4:15 - 5:30 pm	Committee Meeting -   Research Committee –  Dawn Wright, Oregon State University, Chair
Evening	POSTER SESSION   Committee Meetings -   Communication Committee – Diansheng Guo, University of South Carolina, Chair   Membership Committee – Don Janelle, UCSB, Chair