Date

Multiple Meeting Announcements

  1. Call for Registration and Abstracts
    2014 Joint Meeting of the Alaska Sections of the American Water
    Resources Association, American Fisheries Society, and the Southeast
    Alaska Fish Habitat Partnership
    20-24 October 2014
    Juneau, Alaska

  2. Call for Workshop Participation
    Data Visualization for Polar Cypberintrastructure
    3-4 November 2014
    New York City, New York

  1. Call for Registration and Abstracts
    2014 Joint Meeting of the Alaska Sections of the American Water
    Resources Association, American Fisheries Society, and the Southeast
    Alaska Fish Habitat Partnership
    20-24 October 2014
    Juneau, Alaska

Organizers announce open registration and a call for abstracts for the
2014 Joint Meeting of the Alaska Sections of the American Water
Resources Association, American Fisheries Society, and the Southeast
Alaska Fish Habitat Partnership. The meeting, entitled "Bridging
Disciplines to Solve Today's Challenges in Resource Management," will
convene 20-24 October 2014 in Juneau, Alaska.

This meeting is focused on research and management in hydrology,
fisheries, fish habitat, and other aspects of aquatic science and
aquatic resources in Alaska. Plenary speakers include Alaska Department
of Fish and Game Subsistence Fisheries Manager, Jim Fall; White House
Director of Ocean Policy, Beth Kerttula; Earth Systems Institute
geomorphologist, Lee Benda; and University of Alaska, Fairbanks
ecologist, Terry Chapine.

Eight workshops are planned for Monday and Tuesday, 20-21 October. These
workshops cover a number of topics from the application of unmanned
aircraft systems to aquatic research and fisheries applications with
ArcGIS. The meeting will include 34 special sessions representing a wide
range of research and management topics, many of which will focus on
interdisciplinary research.

The Alaska Section of the American Water Resources is offering a number
of student travel grants to its student members to help defray the
cost of conference attendance. There is no formal application process;
applicants will be judged based on the abstracts they submit. Interested
students should contact Trey Simmons (trey_simmons [at] nps.gov).

Early registration deadline: Friday, 26 September 2014.

Preregistration deadline: Friday, 17 October 2014

Abstract submission deadline: Monday, 15 September 2014.

For further information about abstract submission, registration, travel,
and accommodations; see the conference website:
http://www.afs-alaska.org/annual-meetings/fall-2014.

  1. Call for Workshop Participation
    Data Visualization for Polar Cypberintrastructure
    3-4 November 2014
    New York City, New York

The National Science Foundation is sponsoring a workshop related to data
visualization in the Polar Sciences. The workshop will focus on bridging
the cyberinfrastructure/data visualization and polar research
communities and is scheduled to convene 3-4 November 2014 at the Parsons
New School for Design in New York City, New York.

Improving the use and the value of existing datasets over the Polar
Regions is crucial to promote science and support new discoveries.
Ultimately, collaborations between data visualization experts and polar
scientists will foster a greater understanding of the Spatio-temporal
dynamics at play in Polar Regions and their implications to society.

Workshop participants will be motivated by several public polar datasets
that will made available before the starting date of the workshop. One
of the expected outcomes of the workshop is to produce high impact novel
prototypes and data visualizations that will be made available under
open source licenses. Releasing the prototypes will allow NSF to make
longer-term investments in technologies andvisualizations that can be
adopted by the community.

The workshop will also increase cross agency collaboration between NSF,
NASA, NOAA, and other polar-related agencies. The organizing committee
is composed of both cyberinfrastructure and polar experts, including
participation from academia, industry, federally funded research and
development centers, and from the broader open source community.

The workshop will:

  • Recommend several sets of open source software for data and metadata
    processing; scientific workflow management; data curation; and data
    dissemination;
  • Identify some relevant polar data visualization techniques and assess
    the needs and challenges of visualizing polar datasets;
  • Package, deliver, and make available the outcomes of the workshop via
    a public website; and
  • Provide input to the NSF Polar CyberInfrastructure program officer
    through a final report.

Travel support is available for approximately twenty-five workshop
participants that will be selected based on interest, merit, and on
recommendations from the community.

An organizing committee for the meeting is being formed, current
membership includes:

  • Chris Mattmann, University of Southern California and Jet Propulsion
    Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
  • Annie Bryant Burgess, University of Southern California
  • Suzanne Carbotte, Columbia University
  • Bruce Caron, New Media Research Institute
  • Patrick Driscoll, Aalborg University
  • Christopher Goranson, Parsons Institute for Information Mapping
  • Aaron Hill, Parsons New School for Public Engagement
  • Daniel Katz, National Science Foundation
  • Alan Maceachren, Penn State University
  • Jonathan Pundsack, University of Minnesota Polar Geospatial Center
  • Marco Tedesco, National Science Foundation
  • Joel Towers, Parsons New School
  • Saskia Van Manen, Open University
  • Alexander Lex, Harvard Universtiy

Datasets for the workshop will be made publicly available via the Cloud
to workshop participants around two-weeks prior to the start of the
workshop. The workshop format will consist of a two-day series of
invited speakers in polar sciences and cyberinfrastructure and data
visualization to motivate the start of the art and challenges to the
community. Four interactive "hackathons" will provide the opportunity
for workshop participants to break off into teams and develop novel data
visualizations on the provided Cloud datasets. Hackathon results will be
shared and disseminated during the workshop read out and will be made
available to the community under permissive open source licenses (e.g.,
the Apache License, version 2).

For more information and questions, contact the organizing committee via
email (nsfdatavis [at] gmail.com).

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