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Symposium Abstract and Workshop Proposal Submissions Due
Monday, February 08, 2021
Category: Deadlines
Our world is facing unprecedented health, economic, social, and environmental challenges, and the GIScience community has a responsibility to respond and advance solutions. This symposium will bring together scholars and practitioners to show how GIScience theories, technologies, and methods can be employed for geospatial policy and decision-making to create a healthy, economically vibrant, socially just, and environmentally sustainable world. 

The 5-day Symposium will include paper presentations, panels, lightning talks, a poster session, and workshops. See here for the current description of the full set of sessions.  This Call for Abstracts is only for the specific sessions listed here below.  In each case, a 250-word abstract is required.

  1. Environmental Sustainability-based Policy Solutions
    1. Format: Paper Presentations
    2. Eligibility: Open to all
    3. Organizer: Cindy Zhang, University of Connecticut
  2. Smart and Resilient Cities
    1. Format: Paper Presentations
    2. Eligibility: Open to all
    3. Organizer: Angela Yao, University of Georgia
  3. Student GIScience Research
    1. Format: Lightning Talks or Posters. Lightning talk abstracts that are not accepted will be considered for a poster.
    2. Eligibility: Students only 
    3. Organizer: Suzanne Wechsler, Cal State University, Long Beach
  4. Poster Session: GIScience Applications and Research
    1. Format: Poster Session
    2. Eligibility: Open to all
    3. Organizers: Suzanne Wechsler, Cal State University, Long Beach, and Diana Sinton, UCGIS