We are pleased to announce the winner of this year’s disseration prize as Mr Austen Pepper for his dissertation entitled ‘ Extension, generalisation, and verification of a GIS-based relative wave exposure model’ at the University of Wollongong. The abstract of the dissertation appe[...]
January 26th, 2010 - 11:25 am § in Uncategorized
RGS GIScience Research Group Dissertation Prize for 2009
December 17th, 2009 - 6:58 pm § in RGS
Call for Papers – RGS-IBG session on “The Spatial Dimensions of Health”
Abstracts are invited for a session at the annual conference of the the Royal Geographical Society – Institute of British Geographers in 2010 on the spatial dimensions of health. The session is jointly sponsored by the Quantitative Methods Research Group (QMRG) as well as the Health geography rese[...]
October 26th, 2009 - 8:25 pm § in Presentations, Uncategorized
WUN E-Seminar Series Kicks Off this Week
This year’s joint e-seminar series will return to the topic of dynamic modelling in a GIS environment. Date: 28th Oct at 1700 GMT Title: A dynamic social network model for disease transmission. Speaker: Ling Bian (Buffalo) Chair: Kirk Harland (Leeds) The seminars are open to all. For details of ho[...]
Additional RGS Session
Governance and the Geoweb Convenors: Dr. Hanif Rahemtulla (hanif.rahemtulla@mail.mcgill.ca) and Dr. Muki Haklay (m.haklay@ucl.ac.uk) This session will examine the participatory governance potential of the Geoweb and, in particular, its capacity to enable a two-way dialogue between government officia[...]
October 9th, 2009 - 11:28 am § in Conference Session, RGS
RGS – IBG Annual Conference 2010
The 2010 RGS-IBG Annual Conference will take place from the 1st to 3rd September 2010 at the Royal Geographical Society, London. The GIScRG is pleased to announce the following sessions: (click on the titles for more details. Please contact the session conveners with any questions) Enhancing Compl[...]
September 4th, 2009 - 9:33 am § in Conference Session
AAG 2010 – CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Session(s): Modeling Geographic Complexity. Click here for FULL DETAILS. DESCRIPTION: Understanding geographical systems represents one of the greatest challenges of our time. Complexity has emerged as a useful paradigm to effectively study linked human, socioeconomic and biophysical systems[...]