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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Recognizing that the prior announcement was recently added to several
hundred listservers, and that many have sent requests, we are extending the
FINAL deadline for submission of abstracts from December 17 1999, TO
January 29, 2000. Please DO forward this announcement to all interested
parties. Please DO NOT ignore the warning below.
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Call for Papers*- GIS/EM4 (Third Circular - Revised due date -- Jan.29, 2000)
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
Sponsors to-date: NSF, NCGIA, NASA, USFS, EPA, NOAA, USGS, USACE, NRCS
*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. The meeting will be held in
dedicated, full service facilities at The Banff Centre for Conferences in
Banff, Alberta, Canada, September 2-8, 2000.
Self-explanatory abstracts in English should be 1-2 pages 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.
WARNING: DO NOT REPLY DIRECTLY TO THIS MESSAGE. RESPOND ONLY TO
http://www.colorado.edu/research/cires/banff OR [log in to unmask], AS
INSTRUCTED BELOW. If you comply, an email acknowledgement will be provided.
Abstracts should be submitted no later than 5:00 pm (Pacific Standard Time)
on January 29, 2000 (extended from Dec. 17, 1999) via a web-active form
available on the conference web page at
http://www.colorado.edu/research/cires/banff/. This URL also contains other
important information about contributions to the conference. Email
correspondence must be addressed directly to the Conference Secretariat at
[log in to unmask] If you must submit an abstract by some means other
than the web page and its web-active form, or if you have other urgent
questions about the conference, please contact one of the following or send
correspondence directly to:
Conference Secretariat, GIS/EM4, Cooperative Institute for Research in
Environmental Sciences (CIRES), CIRES Building 216, University of Colorado,
Boulder, CO 80309-0216 USA.
Conference Director and Co-directors:
Dr. Bradley Parks, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental
Sciences (CIRES)
Campus Box 216, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 80309-0216.
Email: [log in to unmask], 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: [log in to unmask], 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: [log in to unmask], Tel: 805-893-7961, Fax: 805-893-3146.
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