CALL FOR POSTERS

 The Global Geospatial Conference 2012 Poster Session will be on Tuesday May 15, 2012. All participants, particularly students, are welcome to submit an abstract for a poster that features the results of a scientific work or the application of geospatial technology to a particular user community. GEOIDE Students' Network (GSN) will be presenting the "Best Student Poster" awards (a grand total of $3,000) to GEOIDE students at the Conference.

Posters will be accepted subject to review of a submitted abstract. Poster presenters will also have access to (very) short oral presentations in the Lightning Round (exact details to be described later). Each poster must be connected to a presenter who has registered for at least the day (May 15, 2012). Posters that are not connected to a registered presenter by March 1, 2012 will be removed from the program.

Instructions for Abstract

• Please submit the abstract in a Word document, in English or French.
• All submissions must provide the following information*: Title, author(s) name, project number, affiliation, and contact information.
  * The information above could be used in the Conference program
• The abstract file should be named in the following order: LastName_FirtsName_ProjectNumber_Poster.doc  (ex.: Parent_Gilles_32_Poster.doc);
• Please describe the results that you wish to present in a paragraph (or two), with sufficient details on methodology to establish how the study was performed.
• Poster abstracts must contain at least 150 words and must not exceed 350 words.

Instructions for Poster

• Use the provided template according to your status:
  
  
  • GEOIDE Member
  • Others
• The space allocated to each poster is 1mx1m (40x40 inches). Please do not exceed these dimensions as each poster board accommodates two posters on each side.

• February 1, 2012  -  Deadline for submission of abstracts [Extended to February 8, 2012]
• February 15, 2012  -  Notification of acceptance
  
• March 1, 2012  -  Deadline for registration
  

Please send the abstract to: submit@geoide.ulaval.ca

CALL FOR INDUSTRIAL OR INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATIONS
Related to the Geospatial Domain

As part of the Global Geospatial Conference 2012, companies, organizations, ministries, agencies, crown corporations and municipalities are invited to give a presentation on geospatial activities. These presentations are designed to promote innovation in the geospatial domain, particularly by illustrating technological solutions, business and management solutions and accomplished projects or any other topic that is not included in the scientific presentations already announced.

What to submit

• Proposal maximum of 350 words.

• Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - Deadline for submissions
  
• January 18-27, 2012 - Analysis of proposals by the Local Organizing Committee
  
• Monday, January 30, 2012 - Final decision
  

The proposals should be submitted to:

Atiyeh Ghanbari
Communications Officer

Atiyeh.Ghanbari@geoide.ulaval.ca
Tel.: +1 418 656-2252

Questions about this call should be addressed to:

Nicholas Chrisman Ph. D.
Scientific Director

Nicholas.Chrisman@geoide.ulaval.ca
Tel.: +1 418 656-5746

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

THE ADDED VALUE OF SCIENTIFIC NETWORKING:
Examples contributed by GEOIDE Network Participants 1998-2012

Does it make any difference to organize multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional projects? What is the value-added by the network form of collaboration? These questions will remain unanswered as long as there are limited anecdotal results. A big part of the problem is the lack of long-term follow-up as we all move on from one project to the next.

Over the past fourteen years, the GEOIDE network has mobilized 84M$ in research effort across Canada. All participants in the Network over this period have a story to tell; and now is the time to tell it. The GEOIDE Network invites submission of chapters that will constitute a peer-reviewed book to be distributed at the 14th GEOIDE Annual Scientific Conference (held jointly with GSDI13) in May 2012. Each accepted paper will be provided one registration at the Conference, paid by GEOIDE, and included in a conference session for presentation.

Each chapter should describe the project context (or the context of a series of projects), but not to be written as a scientific publication in your discipline. It should rather describe how the network nature of the project changed the result and/or the way of working in some manner. In some cases, it may describe the scientific result, or in others the economic, social, or environmental benefits may be the more important. Reflections over a series of projects through the course of the Network are of particular interest. The title of GEOIDE involves informed decisions, and thus any results with a bearing on public matters are also of particular interest.

Who should submit

Any participant (student, researcher, affiliate) in a GEOIDE project of Phase I, II, III, IV (1998-2012). Co-authorship by past teams is encouraged. Acknowledgements of other participants and of all funding sources should be given particular care.

What to submit

First a Notice of Intent, then the full text of a chapter (up to 15 pages in final published form including illustrations and references); black and white, format template to be distributed. Manuscripts accepted in English or French.

Intended Audience

General scientific readership, public officials, and research managers. The book is intended to become a reference for science management and initiating collaborations.

Peer review

All chapters will be reviewed by members of the Research Management Committee and external reviewers in the particular domain.

Copyright

The finished book is expected to be published by the GEOIDE Network. Authors will retain rights, subject to a Creative Commons license.

• October 31, 2011 - Notice of Intent: Short abstract, author list  [Extended to November 7, 2011]
  
• December 15,  2011 - Full Chapter due
  
• January 26, 2012 - Notification of acceptance
  
• March 15, 2012 - Final chapter due (camera-ready)
  
• May 14, 2012 - Published book available at Conference
  

Questions about this call should be addressed to:

Nicholas Chrisman Ph. D.
Scientific Director

GEOIDE Network
Pavillon Casault 2306
1055, avenue du Séminaire
Université Laval
Québec (QC) G1V 0A6
CANADA

Nicholas.Chrisman@geoide.ulaval.ca
Tel.: +1 418 656 5746

Updated on October 24, 2011