UCGIS Winter Meeting 2008
February 7 & 8, 2008
Doubletree Hotel Washington DC
1515 Rhode Island Avenue NW
Washington DC 20005

The central topic for UCGIS’ 2008 Winter Meeting is GIScience and Cyberinfrastructure: Making Connections. This will be an exceptional opportunity to come together with colleagues and to hear from federal agencies that support advanced geospatial research. The meeting also provides a forum for the UCGIS community to describe current GIS research projects, focusing this year on cyberinfrastructure.

The UCGIS Board will meet on Wednesday evening, February 6 and on Friday evening, February 8. Committees will meet from 12:30 until 2:30 on Friday, February 8, and the conference will conclude with the meeting of the UCGIS Council from 3:00 until 5:00 on Friday.

Thursday, February 7, sessions on GIS and cyberinfrastructure will begin at 8:30 in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, with an academic panel of faculty from UCGIS member institutions. Afternoon sessions will include presentations by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NSF, NOAA, the Open Source Center in the Office of the National Director of Intelligence, NGA and others. There will be time in the schedule for personal meetings with members of Congress and staff.

On Friday we will meet in our conference hotel, the Hilton Washington Doubletree, at 1515 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, beginning at 9:00 and concluding at 5:00 in the afternoon. A more detailed schedule will be posted and distributed to participants in early January.

Accommodations are limited for this meeting, so it is important for delegates to (1) register for the conference and (2) reserve a hotel room as soon as possible. Special UCGIS rates at the Doubletree Hotel are available through January 15, 2008.