UCGIS Winter 2008 Meeting Schedule Washington Doubletree Hotel                  1515 Rhode Island Avenue NW Washington, DC February 7 & 8, 2008 Wednesday, February 6, 2007 06:30 pm - 09:00 pm UCGIS Board Meeting and Dinner   Thursday, February 7, 2008   08:45 am - 9:00 am Opening Session Sponsored by Senator Roger Wicker (Mississippi) Welcome     Sean Ahearn, UCGIS President,         Hunter College, City University of New York 09:00 am – 11:00 am GIScience and Cyberinfrastructure Making Connections Rayburn Room B338 Workshop Strategies   Tim Nyerges, UCGIS Research Committee Chair     University of Washington Research/Teaching Briefings from UCGIS Institutions   Shaowen Wang     University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign   Wenge Ni-Meister,      City University of New York    Land, Water, Carbon and Climate The Earth From Above   Chaowei Phil Yang     George Mason University     Utilizing the Cyberinfrastructure to support GIScience   David DiBiase     Pennsylvania State University   Sean Ahearn     City University of New York 11:30 am – 02:00 pm Lunch and Federal Agency Briefings   Rob Raskin,    Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA     Knowledge as Cyberinfrastructure: Toward Geographic Knowledge Systems (GKS)   Zdenka Willis,   Director,  Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Program Office, NOAA   NOAA’s Approach to Data Integration and Standards within the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)   David Lightfoot,   Assistant Director and CI Council Representative  Social, Behavioral, Economic   Sciences   Directorate, NSF        New NSF initiatives initiatives in cyberinfrastructure 02:00 pm - 02:30 pm Break   02:30 pm – 03:30 pm Federal Agency and Industry Briefings   Kim Robson, Deputy Director      Open Source Center, Office of the Director of National Intelligence   John Lueders     Booz, Allen, and Hamilton Rayburn House Office Building Room B338 03:30 pm - 4:30 pm Open Discussion   Friday, February 8, 2008 09:00 am - 10:00 am Follow-up Discussion to Thursday Sessions or Congressional Office Visits Doubletree Director’s Room 1515 Rhode Island Avenue 10:00 am - 11:30 am GIS Certification and Licensure Discussion Doubletree Director’s Room 11:30 am - 12:30 pm Lunch  Doubletree Chairman’s and Congressional Rooms 12:30 pm - 02:30 pm UCGIS Committee Meetings Doubletree   Education 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Policy & Legislation 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Research 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Membership 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Communications 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm   03:00 pm - 05:00 pm UCGIS Council Meeting Doubletree Director’s Room 06:00 pm - 09:00 pm UCGIS Board Dinner and Meeting Doubletree Chairman’s Room last revised 01/15/2008