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The Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) proudly announces that applications are now being accepted for the Society’s annual scholarship awards. The scholarships recognize academic achievement and encourage the continuing success of outstanding cartography and geographic information science students. The scholarships also recognize achievement or potential for achievement in original research advancing the specific disciplines of cartography or geographic information science.

Applications are due by February 28, 2023 and will be reviewed by the CaGIS Scholarship Committee. Award recipients will be announced in April, 2023.

Please see the Student Scholarships page for more information.

Speakers, Presentations, and Workshops and the Preliminary Schedule have been announced! Register now!

The early bird registration deadline for AutoCarto 2022 , the premier conference for cartography and GIScience, has been extended to September 15. This hybrid event supports both virtual and in person participation. Discounts are available for CaGIS members, students, and participants from low income countries.

Register now to take advantage of the extended deadline!

The Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) invites proposals for research or outreach projects that have the potential to transform global challenges into new opportunities that advance and promote Cartography and GIScience.

Creativity, novelty, and the potential for broader impacts to society will constitute key criteria for evaluating these proposals for funding.

Proposals may request a budget up to $10,000, and CaGIS expects to fund at least one project during this funding cycle. We welcome early-career individuals or teams to submit proposals, and at least one person on the project team must be a current CaGIS member (visit cartogis.org/membership to join CaGIS).

Please see the CaGIS Rising page for more information!

CaGIS is sorry to report the passing of former President Thomas Loveland.  Tom was a leader in the GIScience and Remote Sensing community and will be greatly missed.  The U.S. Geological Survey paid tribute to Thomas in this article detailing his career, contributions, and leadership.

The 2021 CaGIS Scholarship Committee is proud to announce scholarship awards to the following two Ph.D. students:

Mr. Bing Zhou – Texas A&M; nominated by Lei Zou
Ms. Hoeyun Kwon – University of Iowa; nominated by Caglar Koylu

Congratulations!

The Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) proudly announces that applications are now being accepted for the Society’s annual scholarship awards. The scholarships recognize academic achievement and encourage the continuing success of outstanding cartography and geographic information science students. The scholarships also recognize achievement or potential for achievement in original research advancing the specific disciplines of cartography or geographic information science.

Applications are due by February 28, 2022 and will be reviewed by the CaGIS Scholarship Committee. Award recipients will be announced in April, 2022.

Please see the Student Scholarships page for more information.

The Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) invites proposals for research or outreach projects that have the potential to transform global challenges into new opportunities that advance and promote Cartography and GIScience.

Creativity, novelty, and the potential for broader impacts to society will constitute key criteria for evaluating these proposals for funding.

Proposals may request a budget up to $10,000, and CaGIS expects to fund four total projects in 2022. We welcome early-career individuals or teams to submit proposals, and at least one person on the project team must be a current CaGIS member (visit cartogis.org/membership to join CaGIS).

Please see the CaGIS Rising page for more information!

30^th International Cartographic Conference and International Cartographic Exhibition
Florence, Italy, December 14-18, 2021

The U.S. National Committee (USNC) for the International Cartographic Association (ICA), a standing committee of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS), acts as the liaison between ICA and CaGIS, as well as the larger the U.S. cartographic community. The USNC is pleased to announce the following activities in support of the 30th International Cartographic Conference (ICC), the biennial conference of the ICA, which will take place 14–18 December, 2021, in Florence, Italy (discussion of a virtual-only or partly virtual conference is still underway):

USNC Funding to support U.S. participation in the ICC (whether or not it is held virtually) Nominations for ICA awards, primarily ICA Scholarships for early career scholars or professionals U.S. entries in the International Cartographic Exhibition U.S. entries in the U.S. National and Barbara Petchenik International Children’s Map Competition

Although there is no National Report required for ICC 2021 (they must be submitted every four years in conjunction with the ICA General Assembly; the last report was submitted in 2019), CaGIS maintains an archive of previous U.S. National Reports.

Please contact the USNC Chair, Aileen Buckley, at abuckley@esri.com with any questions about the committee and its activities.

It is with great pleasure that we announce that Xiaobai Angela Yao (University of Georgia) has been elected as Vice President of CaGIS, and Gaurav Sinha (Ohio University) has been elected to the Board of Directors. Both will begin their terms of service at the Spring meeting of the Board of Directors. Congratulations Angela and Gaurav, and thank you for your service to CaGIS.

Xiaobai Angela Yao has been a devoted member of the GIScience and Cartography community. Her current services in the discipline include serving as chair of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) Commission on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling (2015 – 2023) and as a director on the Board of Directors of the University Consortium of Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) (2020-2023). Previously, she also served on a few committees of AAG and SEDAAG, and as a board member of the International Association of Chinese professionals in GIScience (CPGIS). To fulfill responsibilities in these leadership roles, she has regularly organized or co-organized international symposiums, workshops, and other professional activities in the past decade. She also edited research volumes, guest-edited journal special issues, and served as a referee for dozens of journals and as a panelist for the National Science Foundation.

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Ohio University. I have published on a broad swath of GIScience topics, but I am most attracted to spatial cognition and geospatial ontology and applying such knowledge for computational representation of both common sense and geoscientific concepts of the landscape. My academic service record has been rather standard so far: serving as reviewer for many journals and on the conference committees for GIScience, COSIT, Auto Carto and FOIS conference series. I am now seeking additional and more complex professional service opportunities to make diverse and more long-term contributions to the geospatial information science community.