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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?

Tuesday June 15..

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
Wednesday June 16..
Time	Event
7:45-8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 8:45 am	Introductions and Announcements
8:45 - 10:15 am	Presentation: Disorientations: Mapping the Knowledge Economy (Presentation slides) Tim Stallman, Craig Dalton and Lan Tu UNC-Chapel Hill's Counter Cartographies Collective (3C)
10:15 - 10:30 am	Break
10:30 - Noon	Panel: Professional GIScience Education Robert McMaster, University of Minnesota ; Sheila Wilson, GISCI Executive Director Doug Flewelling, University of Redlands Tim Nyerges, University of Washington John Wilson, University of Southern California
Noon - 1:15 pm	Luncheon Committee Meetings: Policy & Legislation Committee – David Tulloch, Rutgers University, Chair
1:15 - 2:30 pm	Concurrent Workshop 1A Core Geographic Principles in GIS&T Facilitators: Sarah Battersby, U. of South Carolina Amy Lobben, U. of Oregon	Concurrent Workshop 1B Integrating Information Literacy Principles in GIS&T Curricula Facilitator: Jeff Hamerlinck, U. of Wyoming
2:30 - 3:30 pm	Break
3:30 - 4:30 pm	Concurrent Workshop 2A How well does your undergraduate or graduate program prepare students for geospatial industry workforce needs? Facilitator: David DiBiase, Penn State University	Concurrent Workshop 2B Moving to Enterprise GIS Facilitator: Toni Fisher, ESRI
4:30 - 4:45 pm	Break
4:45 - 6:00 pm	Council Meeting