************************************************************************ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS The deadline for submission of STUDENT abstracts (in application for student fellowships) to GIS/EM4 is March 11, 2000. The deadline for submission of non-student (professional) abstracts has passed. Students, please plan your abstract now and forward this announcement to colleagues. Please note the warning below regarding replies to this message and our acknowledgement to you. ************************************************************************ Special Call for Papers* -- US Graduate Student Competition -- Due date March 11, 2000. Graduate Student Fellowships - GIS/EM4, Banff, 2000 Pan-disciplinary competition for NSF stipend awards to GIS/EM Student Fellows 4th International Conference on Integrating Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Environmental Modeling (GIS/EM4), September 2-8, 2000 The Banff Centre for Conferences, Banff, Alberta, Canada Graduate Student Fellowships - GIS/EM4, Banff, 2000: A grant by the National Science Foundation will provide Fellowship awards to US graduate student authors of winning paper submissions to the 4th International Conference on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling (GIS/EM4). The conference is the leading forum for, and sets the research agenda in spatially informed anticipatory systems for science-based environmental problem solving. More information about the conference is available at URL: http://www.colorado.edu/research/cires/banff/. Fellowship information is available at (URL: http://www.colorado.edu/Research/cires/banff/desk/student.html). Up to six Fellowships are expected to be awarded, each in the amount of approximately $1000.00 to US graduate students doing relevant work in any discipline of the natural, physical, or social sciences. Stipends are to be used to defray costs of travel and per diem to allow winning students to participate in the conference and to present their papers. Fellows will be selected by judges on the basis of extended abstracts proposing papers to be written and presented at GIS/EM4 by candidate students as lead authors. Students not awarded a Fellowship, may also be eligible to present and be recognized at the meeting. Judges will be selected by conference leaders. Call for Graduate Student Papers *Abstracts are invited for book chapters, journal articles, tutorials or workshops, method/technique/tool demonstrations, and electronic or static "poster" presentations contributing to the 4th International Conference on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling. Self-explanatory abstracts in English should be 1500 to 3000 words in length and must include title, author(s), institutional affiliation(s), explanation of completed work to be described, and 5-10 author-assigned key words. Clear relevance must be shown to predictive, numerical modeling approaches to environmental problem solving. A special conference theme will be human-environment interactions, and the role that GIS and modeling have in their improved understanding and prediction. The forum will retain its cross-disciplinary, pan-scientific, and problem solving emphases consistent with a concern for better integrated understanding of complex whole systems, their integrity and sustained functioning, and particularly (but not exclusively) their interactions with human activity. Spatial, statistical, temporal, and other methodological considerations are expected to be given balanced treatment with issues of science theory, new data sources and sensors, computing technologies, and application techniques. Schedule and submissions: Competition for these awards will be announced February 9, 2000 and will allow 30 days for preparation and delivery of extended abstracts. Abstracts of 1200 to 1500 words (exclusive of graphic or other non-text elements) will be accepted from eligible students no later than 5:00 PM, Hawaii time on March 11, 2000. No exceptions will be allowed and early submission and verification of posting to the GIS/EM4 on-line data base is strongly encouraged (URL: http://wist.ngdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/wt/jamesp/banff/browse?order=2). All submissions are to be made through the GIS/EM4 on-line submissions form (URL: http://www.colorado.edu/Research/cires/banff/desk/student.html). If access to the web is not available, please make other arrangements (see below). Judging is expected to take two weeks with prompt notice of individual winners by email, and publicly via the conference web site. Questions and correspondence: WARNING: DO NOT REPLY DIRECTLY TO THIS MESSAGE. RESPOND ONLY TO http://www.colorado.edu/research/cires/banff OR [EMAIL PROTECTED], AS INSTRUCTED BELOW. If you comply, an email acknowledgement will be provided. If you must arrange to submit an abstract by means other than the on-line form at the conference web site, or if you wish to send other email correspondence, please address messages directly to the Conference Secretariat at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or by post to: Conference Secretariat, GIS/EM4, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), CIRES Building 216, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0216 USA. If you have other urgent questions about the conference, please contact the Conference Director or Co-directors: Dr. Bradley Parks, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) Campus Box 216, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 80309-0216. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tel: 303-497-6330, Fax: 303-497-6513. Mr. Michael Crane, US Geological Survey, EROS Data Center (EDC) 47914 252nd Street, Sioux Falls, SD 57198-0001 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tel: 605-594-6041, Fax: 605-594-6150. Dr. Keith Clarke, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) 3510 Phelps Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tel: 805-893-7961, Fax: 805-893-3146.
