SpatialNews.com Press Release
Call for Participation and Announcement of Scholarships Competition
GIScience 2000: First International Conference on Geographic Information Science
Savannah Marriott River Front, Savannah, Georgia, USA
October 28-31, 2000
GIScience 2000 focuses on emerging topics and basic research findings across all sectors of geographic information
science, with a program
( www.giscience.org/GIScience2000/programOverview.html ) containing 117 papers, 38 posters, 7 invited
talks, and 2 panels.
Early Registration
The early registration fee of $195 will be available through September 15, 2000. See
http://www.giscience.org/GIScience2000/registration.html for details.
Scholarships
A limited number of scholarships are available to provide partial financial support to attend GIScience 2000.
Graduate students are especially encouraged to apply. Support will pay for registration, travel, and accommodation
up to a limit of $700. To apply send a short resume and a statement giving your reasons for wanting to attend the
conference and why you are want to apply for the scholarship to scholarship@giscience.org by September 15.
Awardees will be notified by September 25.
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Max J. Egenhofer and David M. Mark
Program Co-Chairs, GIScience 2000
max@spatial.maine.edu, dmark@geog.buffalo.edu
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