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Symposium Details:

Dates: May 10-12, 2007

Location: Capital Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C.

Sponsored by: The International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS), as part of its 29th General Assembly, May 9-13, 2007, and hosted by the National Academy of Sciences through its U.S. National Committee to IUBS. Further details including the preliminary symposium

schedule are available at <http://www7.nationalacademies.org/IUBS>

International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology 2007 (ICEST2007)

International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology 2007 (ICEST2007) - Call for Abstracts, Call for Exhibits, Advance registration

The International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology 2007 will be held on August 6-9, 2007 in Houston, Texas, USA. It is sponsored and organized by the American Academy of Sciences. The technical program is expected to consist of about 600 platform and poster presentations. The objective of Conference will be to provide a major interdisciplinary forum for presenting new approaches from relevant areas of environmental research, to foster integration of the latest developments into engineering applications, and to facilitate technology transfer from well-tested ideas into practical products and remedial processes. Researchers, engineers, regulatory agents, policy makers, consultants, and vendors will all benefit from the opportunity to exchange information on recent research
trends, to examine ongoing research programs, and to investigate world-wide public and regulatory acceptance of environmental protection and remediation
technologies.

The conference will host presentations on a wide range of environmental problems. Fifteen major topics are listed in the preliminary conference program. These
active areas of research include:

1. Water pollution and water quality control
2. Air pollution and air quality control
3. Land (soil, solid waste) pollution and remediation
4. Ecosystem restoration
5. Bio-assessment and toxicology
6. Wetlands
7. Sediments
8. Global change
9. Metals
10. Chlorinated and other organic compounds
11. Modeling
12. GIS, database, statistics, and remote sensing
13. Environmental Analysis and Measurements
14. Society and the Environment
15. Environmental Planning and Management

Location
Wyndham Greenspoint Hotel
12400 Greenspoint Drive
Houston, Texas 77060, USA

General Information
ATTN: Environmental Conference
American Academy of Sciences
9720 Town Park Dr. Ste 18
Houston, TX 77036, USA
Abstract submission: env-abstract@AASci.org
Paper submission: env-paper@AASci.org
Registration: env-conference@AASci.org
Website: http://www.AASci.org/conference/env/2007/index.html

Prof Walter Leal, TuTech Innovation, Harburger Schlossstrasse 6-10, D-21079 Hamburg, Germany.

Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 07:00:20 +0300
From: TAGS <bgisasia@gmail.com>
To: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in
Subject: B-GIS@Asia 2007 GIS Conference with a difference

b-GIS@Asia is a conference on GIS set for 17th - 19th December 2007 at Technopark, Trivandrum, India. It is about discovering how GIS empowers organizations. It focuses on integrating GIS into areas of organizational business that are key to its functioning, irrespective of government, NGO, academic, or business. This way, apart from technology, the practical aspects of how best GIS can be pieced together with components and techniques available within organizations across different sectors and organisational functions (viz., data, data capturing techniques, applications, standards, and software) to achieve their business goals efficiently gets discussed. It is an important area for organizational strengthening as well as capacity building in terms of GIS implementation. The conference offers numerous participatory options namely, plenary lectures, thematic papers, posters, user applications, and meet-the-professional to share experiences and, in turn, learn from others. Delegates can leverage the options offered to maximise their benefits of participation.

For further details please visit the conference website : http://www.tagsasia.org/bgisasia

Themes

* Enterprise GIS

* Enterprise data sharing, publishing, and security

* GIS for Police Departments and Homeland security

* Implementing metadata services

* Implementing GIS Systems in local governments

* Implementing GIS Systems in Disaster Management Centers

* GIS and business process work flow

* GIS for project management and control

* ERP-GIS systems

* GIS for Resource Management

Registration

Registration begins on the 1st of June 2007. Final deadline is 31st of October 2007. Registration fee structure is shown in the table below. Amounts stated are in Indian Rupees unless stated otherwise.

Delegate Registration

Registration as a delegate entitles to admittance to all the sessions, exhibitions and the opening gala. It does not include workshop, and sightseeing trips.

Registration Fees

Registration begins on the 1st of June 2007 . Final deadline is 31st of October 2007. Registration fee structure is shown in the table below. Amounts stated are in Indian Rupees unless stated otherwise.

Workshop Fee

Discount

For further details please visit the registration page at the conference website or send your queries to bgisasia.registration@tagsasia.org

Financial Assistance

Trans Asiatic GIS Society offers financial assistance to encourage delegates making significant contribution under any of the conference themes to attend and present their papers. The exact number of assistance depends on the availability of funds. At the moment, funding is available only for indian nationals. Two types of financial assistance are offered to delegates. Travel Assistance and Student Assistanceships. Travel Assistance is eligible for delegates classified as Academic / Research Institution and Student Assistanceships to students.

For further details please visit the financial assistance page at the conference website or send your queries to bgisasia.funding@tagsasia.org

Call for Papers

Papers on any of the themes are invited from authors. Abstracts not more than 300 words may be submitted electronically to<mailto:bgisasia.papers@tagsasia.org> bgisasia.papers@tagsasia.org in MS Word.

Last date for Abstract submissions 1st of October 2007

Full paper of accepted abstracts 15^th of November 2007

Call for Posters
Authors may showcase their work under any related topic at the poster section of b-GIS@Asia and compete for prizes. While submitting please indicate the business category under which you wish to compete. Submission forms are available until 30th September 2007 and deadline for poster submissions is 31st October 2007.

Call for User Applications
Business GIS applications developed to meet end users' organizational business requirements can be presented in the Applications Fair. The product can either be an application developed using GIS software or a customization of a GIS software product. While submitting please indicate the business category under which you wish to compete. Submission forms are available until 30th September 2007 and deadline for user application submissions is 31st October 2007.

Meet the Professional

This is the venue where attendees meet for a peer-peer interaction for knowledge sharing, learning more about products, software, and technology solutions. The focus will be on the following areas, Enterprise GIS, b-GIS for telecomm, Workforce Management.

Programme Schedule

Visit the conference web site for more information and updates. http://www.tagsasia.org/bgisasia