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OCTOBER

Thursday October 27, 2011

DR. SIDERIS ELECTED VICE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEODESY AND GEOPHYSICS (IUGG)

The Department of Geomatics Engineering of University of Calgary has announced that Professor Michael G. Sideris, who completed his 2007-2011 term as President of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), is the new Vice President of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) for the period 2011-2015.
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Thursday October 27, 2011

DR. AHMED SHAKER RECEIVED THE 2011 CANADIAN REMOTE SENSING SOCIETY (CRSS) BRONZE MEDAL AWARD

Dr. Ahmed Shaker Assistant Professor of the Department of Civil Engineering at Ryerson University and the network investigator of GEOIDE Project SII-PIV-72, has been honoured as the 2011 Canadian Remote Sensing Society (CRSS) Bronze Medal Award recipient for his outstanding contributions to satellite sensor modelling and applications of remote sensing in civil engineering.
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Thursday October 20, 2011 to Saturday October 22, 2011

GEOMED 2011

GEOMED 2011 is the 7th international, interdisciplinary conference on spatial statistics and geomedical systems which will be held in Inn at Laurel Point Hotel, Victoria, British Columbia from 20 to 22 October, 2011. GEOMED brings together statisticians, geographers, epidemiologists, computer scientists, and public health professionals to discuss methods of spatial analysis related to issues arising in public health.
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JUNE

Thursday June 23, 2011

HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL - KARINE BÉDARD

After obtaining her Bachelor's degree in Earth Sciences at University of Ottawa, Karine Bédard graduated with a Master's degree in Geomatics at Université Laval in 2006. There, she worked on her Master's project under GEOIDE's Phase II and III projects.
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Monday June 13, 2011 to Thursday June 16, 2011

32ND CANADIAN SYMPOSIUM ON REMOTE SENSING AND 14TH CONGRESS OF THE AQT

Venue: Bishop's University Campus, Sherbrooke (Québec)
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Sunday June 5, 2011 to Sunday July 17, 2011

VESPUCCI SUMMER INSTITUTE ON GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE

GEOIDE is proud to be a sponsor for the 9th annual Vespucci Summer Institute. This year will feature 5-day-long modules, the first on "Volunteered Geographic Information" in the week of June 5. And the second will tackle how to "Process Ontology" in the week of July 17.
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MAY

Tuesday May 31, 2011 to Saturday June 4, 2011

CAG 2011 CALGARY: OUR LEGACY, OUR FUTURE

The University of Calgary Geography Department is hosting the CAG's 2011 annual conference and meeting, May 31 - June 4, 2011.
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Friday May 20, 2011 to Wednesday May 25, 2011

GEOIDE SUMMER SCHOOL 2011, TORONTO, ONTARIO

The 10th GEOIDE Summer School was held at the University of Toronto at Scarborough.
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Wednesday May 18, 2011 to Sunday May 22, 2011

SOSGSSD 2011 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO

The 5-day week will be divided into two independent components: a 2-day graduate seminar followed by a 3-day summer school. Feel free to attend either or both.
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Wednesday May 18, 2011 to Thursday May 19, 2011

OCE DISCOVERY 2011

2011 ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE, TORONTO

The 13e GEOIDE Conference was held at the Méridien King Edward Hotel, Toronto (ON).
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Monday May 2, 2011 to Friday May 6, 2011

2011 GDR MAGIS SCHOOL

GEOIDE is proud to be a sponsor for the GDR MAGIS School, our French partner and will fund four people to attend this event. This year the school will be held at "centre Paul Langevin à Aussois (parc de la Vanoise)" from May 2 to May 6, 2011.
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APRIL

Monday April 18, 2011

WEBINAR PIV-43 - PARALLEL COMPUTATION OF SPATIAL LATTICE MODELS

On April 18, 2011, the Forestry team was pleased to showcase their work at a second webinar presentation on "Parallel Computation of Spatial Lattice Models" by Jonathan Lee, a PhD candidate at The University of Western Ontario, supervised by Reg Kulperger and Hao Yu.
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Monday April 18, 2011 to Thursday April 21, 2011

14TH AGILE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE

The GEOIDE Network is proud to be a sponsor of two students to attend the 14th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science which will be held at Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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MARCH

Monday March 21, 2011

SUBMISSION FOR THE 32ND CANADIAN SYMPOSIUM ON REMOTE SENSING AND THE 14TH CONGRESS OF THE AQT

Extended Deadline March 21, 2011
Please find attached the call for abstracts for the 32nd Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing and the 14th Congress of the AQT that will be held in Sherbrooke, Québec from June 13 to 16 2011. The conference web site is now ready to facilitate abstract submissions.
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Friday March 18, 2011

GEOCENS: A GEOSPATIAL CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING

The objective of the GeoCENS project is to provide a user-driven and intuitive 3D virtual globe portal for biogeoscience researchers to share distributed sensors and their data.
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Thursday March 17, 2011

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR POSTER ABSTRACTS FOR THE GEOIDE CONFERENCE 2011

Extended Deadline March 17, 2011
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Wednesday March 9, 2011

WEBINAR PIV-43 - TEMPORAL TRENDS IN FOREST FIRE SEASON LENGTH

GEOIDE Project PIV-43 strengthens statistical and geomatics tools in forest research. The team keeps their dispersed Canadian and international members up to date though a variety of activities. This year, the team has introduced student-led webinars to encourage their students to promote and disseminate their work broadly to the team so that the team can learn and connect with the wide range of forestry research conducted throughout the year.
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Friday March 4, 2011 to Sunday March 6, 2011

GSN POSTER SESSION IN FERNIE: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

SPATIAL KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION - CANADA 2011

Spatial Knowledge and Information - Canada is happy to announce its 3rd conference, once again in Fernie, British Columbia on March 4-5, 2011.
This conference convenes Canadian leaders in GIScience research with a focus on celebrating the research of tomorrow's GIScience scholars.

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FEBRUARY

Friday February 25, 2011

GISCORPS: GIS PROFESSIONALS VOLUNTEERING FOR A BETTER WORLD

Join us for a Webinar on February 25 3:00 - 4:30 PM EST.
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Tuesday February 1, 2011 to Thursday March 31, 2011