Annual Report for Varenius: NCGIA’s Project to Advance
Geographic Information Science
Table Of Contents
Introduction: the Varenius project Establishing the project structure Panel Report: Cognitive Models Of Geographic Space Panel Report: Computational Implementations of Geographic Concepts 1. Summary of the goals of Varenius in this area
2. Non-Varenius events related to Computational Implementations of Geographic Concepts
3. Progress within Varenius
4. Assessment of research progress Panel Report: Geographies of the Information Society Panel chair and members
1. Summary of the goals of Varenius in this area
2. Non-Varenius events related to Geographies of the Information Society
3. Progress within Varenius
4. Assessment of research progress Report on Other Activities of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis Summary
Initiative 16: Law, Information Policy, and Spatial Databases
Initiative 17: Collaborative Spatial Decision Making
Initiative 19: GIS and Society: The Social Implications of How People, Space, and Environment are Represented in GIS
  • State University of New York at Buffalo - David Mark
  • University of California-Los Angeles - Michael Curry
  • University of California - Santa Barbara - Helen Couclelis
  • University of Minnesota - Robert McMaster and Eric Sheppard
  • Report on NCGIA-Sponsored Workshop, Geographical Methodologies for Technological Risk Assessment
  • University of Kentucky - John Pickles
  • West Virginia University - Trevor Harris and Daniel Weiner
  • Public Participation GIS
    •  Initiative 21: Formal Models of Common-Sense Geographic Worlds
    Collaborative projects 
  • Gulf of Maine Data and Information Management System
  • Predator-Prey Modeling of Fish Populations within Three-Dimensional GIS:
  • Worlds of Information: the Geographic Metaphor in the Visualization of Complex Nonspatial Information
    •  Other research projects
  • The Amherst Deer Problem: Nature and Society in the Suburbs
  • Human capital research
  • Spherekit
  • VITAL
    •  Visiting scholars
    Education
  • The NCGIA Core Curriculum in Geographic Information Science
  • GIS education conferences
  • Community College Project
  • Computational Methods for Watershed Analysis CD
  • Other education activities
    •  Outreach: Conferences
  • Geographical Methodologies for Environmental Risk Assessmen, September 6–8, 1997, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
  • First Annual Assembly of the NCGIA Consortium, Oct 10–13,1997, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
  • Geographic Information Systems and Political Districting: Social Groups, Representational Values, and Electoral Boundaries, October 24–26, 1997, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
  • Qualitative Research in Human Geography, November 6–9, 1997, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
  • GIS History Project Workshop, November 6–8, 1997, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
  • GIS in Epidemiology, November 14–16, 1997, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
  • History of the Concepts of Space, April 18–19, 1997, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
  • NCEAS Workshop on Uncertainty in Spatial Data for Ecological Models, September 29–October 1, 1997, Santa Barbara
  • UCGIS 1997 Annual Assembly and Summer Retreat, June 15–21, 1997, Bar Harbor, ME
  • Workshop on Spatial Genomics, October 23–25, 1997, Northeast Harbor, ME
    •  Other outreach activities
  • Technical Papers published
    •  Management     Appendix 1: Minutes of the Varenius Advisory Board

    Appendix 2: Guidelines for Proposals for Seed Grants under the Varenius Project

    Appendix 3: Interoperating Geographic Information Systems (Interop '97) Conference Program

    Appendix 4: Publications by NCGIA Personnel

    Appendix 5: Extramural Support A. Research grants and contracts
    B. Equipment and software acquisitions     Appendix 6: Presentations by NCGIA Personnel

    Appendix 7: Visitors To NCGIA Sites

    Appendix 8: Courses Taught by NCGIA Faculty

    Appendix 9: Graduate Degrees Granted at NCGIA Sites