vol. 1, no. 1 Dear CaGIS Member, The first issue of your new CaGIS News is out. CaGIS has been involved in a variety of activities; this first issue of THE NEWS summarizes them. -- Doug Vandegraft, CaGIS Immediate Past-President 2007 ESRI International User Conference CaGIS shared a booth with the other ACSM member organizations at this years ESRI Conference in San Diego, which was attended by approximately by 13,000 people. CaGIS President Aileen Buckley and Vice President Alan Mikuni manned the booth, as did ACSM Bulletin Editor Ilse Genovese (see her article about the conference in the June Bulletin). The ESRI Conference provides an ideal venue to promote the agendas of all of the ACSM member organizations, and approximately 150 people submitted applications to join CaGIS! 2007 ICA Conference in Moscow In August, more than 600 cartography and GIS specialists from around the world assembled in Moscow for the 23rd biennial conference of the International Cartographic Association (ICA). Cindy Brewer (Penn State), Chair of the U.S. National Committee, coordinated U.S. involvement in the Moscow meeting. The U.S. group included over 30 participants who gave paper and/or poster presentations. As Chair of the USNC-ICA, Cindy also represented the U.S. at meetings of the ICA General Assembly, the official decision-making body for the ICA. Also, Tim Trainor (U.S. Census Bureau) was elected as the new Vice-President of the ICA. The USNC-ICA is a standing committee of CaGIS. CaGIS Board Meeting The CaGIS Board met in Arlington, VA, on Saturday, September 29. It was decided to a) raise the dues from $140 to $145 per year; b) establish a President-Elect officer position; c) establish a Secretary position (separate from the Treasurer); and d) extend the term of the Director positions from three to four years. These changes require revisions to the CaGIS Bylaws; the revisions are currently being reviewed for submission to the membership for ratification at the spring membership meeting. CaGIS Scholarship Announcement Each year, CaGIS sponsors two scholarships to CaGIS student members recognizing academic achievement and encouraging the continuing education of outstanding cartography, geographic information systems (GIS), and geographic information science (GIScience) students. Scholarships are awarded for research advancing the disciplines of cartography or GIScience rather than research applying GIS or mapping as a technique. Winners are selected based on academic merit. Applications are reviewed by the CaGIS Scholarship Committee, and awards are announced in the spring. Applications must arrive at ACSM/CaGIS Headquarters by December 15, 2007. Information on this and other CaGIS-sponsored awards is available at www.cartogis.org/awards. 35th Annual CaGIS Map Competition CaGIS announces its 35th Annual Map Design Competition for professionals and students in the United States and Canada. The purpose of the competition is to promote interest in map design and recognize significant design advances in cartography. Noted Cartographers judge the entries based on: color, overall design and impression, craftsmanship, and typography. Entries are displayed at a number of national and inter-national functions and then become part of the permanent collection of the U.S. Library of Congress. Professionals compete in these categories: Thematic, Reference, Book/Atlas, Recreation/Travel, Interactive Digital and Other. Students participate in the National Geographic Society (NGS)/Avenza-MAPublisher Student Map Design Competition which is open to all college-level student mapmakers who have completed and/or published the submitted map in the past year. Student awards consist of a $500 cash prize, an NGS map or atlas, a student license of ESRI ArcMap, and a student license for MAPublisher. Runners-up receive a beautiful NGS map or atlas. Students compete in these categories: Arthur Robinson Award for Best Printed Map and David Woodward Award for Best Electronic Map. Deadline is January 15, 2008. Visit the CaGIS website for more info at www.cartogis.org. 2008 ACSM Conference The American Congress on Surveying and Mapping Conference will be held in Spokane, WA, March 4-8, 2008. The conference theme will be “The Inland Empire Strikes Back” and will be held jointly with the Land Surveyors Association of Washington. The CaGIS Board is currently scheduled to meet at the conference. 2008 AutoCarto will be September 6-10 at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, WV, which is only 1.5 hours drive from either the Washington Dulles or Baltimore Washington International Airports. This will be the seventeenth in the AutoCarto series, where participants come together to explore new research and innovation in cartography and geographic information science. See the CaGIS website for more info at www.cartogis.org. 2008 AutoCarto Call for Papers/Posters/Websites CaGIS invites cartographers, geographers, geospatial analysts, GIScientists and others conducting research on the cutting edge of the geospatial sciences to submit paper abstracts posters on a variety of topics, as well as websites demonstrating an innovative cartographic application or method. Deadline for paper abstracts is March 1, 2008; for posters is April 1, 2008; and websites is May 1, 2008. 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