Cartography Group Sponsored Sessions

at the

2009 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
The 105th AAG Annual Meeting
Sunday, March 22 - Friday, March 27, 2009 Las Vegas, Nevada

Index to this page...

A. Invitation for Participation

B. Honors Student Paper Competition

C. AAG 2009 Student Illustrated Paper Competition


D. Sponsored Sessions
       1. Spatial Data Mining and Exploratory Data Analysis
       2. Impacts of Internet GIS and Virtual Globes on Cartographic Research
       3. Cognitive Issues in Geographic Information Visualization
       4. Geographic Information Retrieval


A. Invitation for Participation

Dear AAG Cartography Specialty Group Member:

The AAG Cartography Specialty Group invites members to request sponsorship of special sessions for the 2009 AAG annual meeting in Las Vegas. In preparing your special session, please keep in mind that the CSG would like to sponsor a maximum of 50 sessions in an attempt to minimize time conflicts that often lead to poor turnout. We encourage the use of some of the newer presentation formats for sessions such as the Interactive Short Paper which consists of 10-14 five minute presentations:   http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2009/papers.htm

To request CSG sponsorship, please email me (CSG Vice-Chair) by October 9th -- that is one week before the AAG deadline of October 16th:


David K. Patton

Department of Geography
Central Michigan University

Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859
patto1d@cmich.edu


Be sure to put "CSG Session" in your subject line when writing.
Thank you and I am looking forward to hearing from you. 
Sincerely, 
 
David Patton
Vice-Chair (2008-2009) AAG-CSG
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B. Honors Student Paper Competition


The Cartography Specialty Group (CSG) of the Association of American Geographers is pleased to announce the resurrection of the Honors Student Paper Competition on cartographic and geovisualization related topics to be presented at the AAG Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV (March 22-27, 2009). The purpose of this competition is to promote written scholarship and oral presentation by students in the field of cartography and geovisualization. The CSG welcomes papers from current graduate and undergraduate students on any topic in cartography and geovisualization.

We especially encourage papers on theoretical, conceptual, and methodological developments in cartography and geovisualization rather than on particular mapping applications. Paper must be based upon original work, completed as an undergraduate or graduate student, relevant to the field of cartography and current geovisualization research. Papers must be written entirely by the applicant. Students who are selected as finalists will be placed in a special session at the annual meeting. The only exception is a student who is also selected as a Nystrom Dissertation Award finalist, in which case, he or she may present in the Nystrom paper session instead.

The top five finalists will be awarded full registrations for the AAG conference. A cash prize of $100 and a non-timeout version of ArcGIS ArcView as well as three extensions (Spatial Analyst, 3D Analyst and GeoStatistical Analyst) will be awarded to the first place winner. The second place winner will receive four books of his/her choice from ESRI Press. All other finalists will also receive two books of their choice from ESRI Press.

An extended abstract of approximately 250 words must be submitted electronically by October 9, 2008, and the complete paper must be submitted no later than February 1, 2009. Any questions about the CSG student paper competition should be directed to Paporn Thebpanya, pthebpanya@towson.edu or Jeremy Mennis, jmennis@temple.edu.

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C. Student Illustrated Paper Competition

The Cartography Specialty Group (CSG) of the Association of American Geographers is pleased to announce the resurrection of the Honors Student Paper Competition on cartographic and geovisualization related topics to be presented at the AAG Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV (March 22-27, 2009).  The purpose of this competition is to promote written scholarship and oral presentation by students in the field of cartography and geovisualization.  The CSG welcomes papers from current graduate and undergraduate students on any topic in cartography and geovisualization.

We especially encourage papers on theoretical, conceptual, and methodological developments in cartography and geovisualization rather than on particular mapping applications. Paper must be based upon original work, completed as an undergraduate or graduate student, relevant to the field of cartography and current geovisualization research. Papers must be written entirely by the applicant. Students who are selected as finalists will be placed in a special session at the annual meeting. The only exception is a student who is also selected as a Nystrom Dissertation Award finalist, in which case, he or she may present in the Nystrom paper session instead.

The top five finalists will be awarded full registrations for the AAG conference.  A cash prize of $100 and a non-timeout version of ArcGIS ArcView as well as three extensions (Spatial Analyst, 3D Analyst and GeoStatistical Analyst) will be awarded to the first place winner.  The second place winner will receive four books of his/her choice from ESRI Press.  All other finalists will also receive two books of their choice from ESRI Press.

An extended abstract of approximately 700 words must be submitted electronically by October 16, 2008, and the complete paper must be submitted no later than February 1, 2009.  Any questions about the CSG student paper competition should be directed to:

Maureen Kelley
Department of Geography
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon 97403
mkelley@gmp.san-jose.ca.us
mlawren5@uoregon.edu


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D. Sponsored Sessions

1.  (Title)

Sponsored by the Cartography Specialty Group.

Preliminary inquires, notices of intention to submit, or any questions are welcome at any time




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