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Symposium 2021 > Call for AbstractsCall for AbstractsUCGIS 2021 Symposium: Advancing GIScience-informed Policy SolutionsMonday June 7 - Friday June 11, 2021 (online)Our world is facing unprecedented health, economic, social, and environmental challenges, and the GIScience community has a responsibility to respond and advance solutions. This symposium will bring together scholars and practitioners to show how GIScience theories, technologies, and methods can be employed for geospatial policy and decision-making to create a healthy, economically vibrant, socially just, and environmentally sustainable world.
The 5-day Symposium will include paper presentations, panels, lightning talks, a poster session, and workshops. See here for the current description of the full set of sessions. This Call for Abstracts is only for the specific sessions listed here below. In each case, a 250-word abstract is required.
Student Research AwardsUCGIS is pleased to announce that excellence in student scholarship will be recognized with cash awards in several categories – poster, lightning talk and paper sessions. Cash awards up to $250 may be available, and students must be from a current UCGIS member institution to be eligible. UCGIS thanks Esri for its generosity in supporting this student scholarship activity. Important Dates
Registration RequirementsEvery paper, poster, or lightning talk presenter is required to register for the UCGIS Symposium. Presenters who do not register may be dropped from the program. Program Committee
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