Call-for-papers 2011 AAG

 

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Dear All,

Attached is a call-for-papers for a symposium on Space-Time Integration in Geography and GIScience, which is one of the themes to feature the 2011 Annual Meetings of American Association of Geographers in Seattle. Prof. Mei-Po Kwan of Ohio State University and Prof. Donggen Wang of Hong Kong Baptist University cordially invite you to submit papers on space-time studies in greater China to the symposium. We plan to organize one or two sessions focus on China at the symposium and identify papers for a possible special issue in an international journal. If you are interested in submitting a paper, please kindly send us your abstract to this e-mail: dgwang@hkbu.edu.hk on or before October 12, 2010. You are also advised to go to the AAG website www.aag.org, to register for the conference and submit your abstract on or before the AAG deadline: October 20, 2010 (please see the detailed instructions for submitting papers to AAG in the following call-for-papers). Thank you!

Best wishes,

Prof. Mei-Po Kwan

Department of Geography, Ohio State University, USA

Prof. Donggen Wang

Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

August 30, 2010

Call for Papers
Space-Time Integration in Geography and GIScience

Every year, the Association of American Geographers (AAG) identifies a particularly timely or relevant set of themes to feature during its Annual Meetings. Last year an over-riding theme was climate change, for example, and previous years have included featured sessions on topics such as human rights, landscape and literature, sustainable development in Africa, geography of water, and many other topics.

A special Symposium focused on the research status, recent advances and research needs of space-time integration, modeling and analysis in geography and GIScience will be organized within the AAG Annual Meeting in Seattle, April 12-16, 2011. This special set of invited papers will feature many leading geography and GIScience researchers from Asia and Europe as well as from other regions of the world, and will form a high-profile international symposium within the AAG Annual Meeting.

Space-time analysis is a rapidly growing research frontier in geography, GIS, and GIScience. Advances in integrated GPS/GIS technologies, the availability of large datasets (over time and space), and increased capacity to manage, integrate, model and visualize complex data in (near) real time, offer the GIS and geography communities extraordinary opportunities to begin to integrate sophisticated space-time analysis and models in the study of complex environmental and social systems, from climate change to infectious disease transmission.

This special Symposium builds on momentum from a space-time analysis workshop co-sponsored by the AAG, ESRI, the University of Redlands, and University of Southern California in early 2010, as well as several other initiatives during the past few years. Geographers, GIScientists, modelers, computer programmers, GPS/GIS systems scientists, climate change scientists, epidemiologists, ecologists, planners, transportation experts, and others with active research expertise in integrating space–time in GIS and geography are encouraged to participate in this special symposium.

This special Symposium will open with plenary sessions led by prominent theorists and pioneers in time-space GIScience and technology research.

Symposium Organizers are:

Michael Goodchild – University of California - Santa Barbara

Doug Richardson – Association of American Geographers

Mei-Po Kwan – Ohio State University

Luc Anselin – Arizona State University

Kathleen Stewart – University of Iowa

Tomoki Nakaya – Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Dan Griffith – University of Texas at Dallas

Martin Dijst – Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Jeremy Mennis – Temple University

Elizabeth Wentz – Arizona State University

Michael Gould – Environmental Systems Research Institute

Donggen Wang – Hong Kong Baptist University, China

Jean McKendry – Association of American Geographers

May Yuan – University of Oklahoma

Seraphim Alvanides – Northumbria University, UK