Just announced... GIS-Pro 2013: URISA's 51st Annual Conference for GIS Professionals will take place in Providence, Rhode Island, September 16-19, 2013.

Mark your calendar and stay tuned for the Call for Presentations and more details!

The latest issue of the URISA Journal is a special issue devoted to Public Participation GIS (PPGIS). You will soon receive a printed copy through the mail, but if you have free time during the next week, take some time to peruse the issue online and these peer-reviewed articles:

• Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) for Regional and Environmental Planning: Reflections on a Decade of Empirical Research
• Innovative Public Participatory GIS Methodologies Adopted to Deal with the Social Impact Assessment Process Challenges: A Sri Lankan Experience
• Analyzing Perceptions of Inequalities in Rural Areas of England Using a Mixed Methods Approach
• Participatory Asset Mapping in the Lake Victoria Basin of Kenya
• Increasing Access to and Use of Geospatial Data by Municipal Government and Citizens: The Process of "Geomatization" in Rural Québec
• Active Transportation, Citizen Engagement and Livability: Coupling Citizens and Smartphones to Make the Change
• Web-based PPGIS for Wilhelmsburg, Germany: An Integration of Interactive GIS-based Maps with an Online Questionnaire

Register for the 2013 URISA Leadership Academy by December 31 and save $400! Join your fellow GIS professionals May 13-17 at the Hyatt Regency Riverwalk in San Antonio... and immerse yourself in GIS leadership discussions. Click here for more information 

 

 

The 2013 GIS/CAMA Technologies Conference will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico (March 4-7, 2013) and two deadlines are approaching:

• Discounted exhibit booth fees through December 31
• Discounted early registration rates through January 14

 

 

Abstract Submissions for the 2013 URISA GIS in Public Health Conference are due January 31. The conference will take place June 17-20 with the theme: Geospatial tools for understanding health issues related to the environment, human population, and animal populations and the intersections of the three. Review the Call for Presentations and consider your submission here.

 

And there's more... 

• URISA will be co-presenting a GIS in Transit Conference with the Center for Urban Transit Research and the Transportation Research Board in Washington DC, October 16-18, 2013. Stay tuned for details and abstract submission info!
• A 2013 Address-focused conference will be presented in partnership with the National Emergency Number Association in early November 2013. Exact dates and location will be announced shortly! 

URISA members in Kentucky and Tennessee recently came together and presented a petition requesting organizing status to the URISA Board of Directors. This petition was approved! Watch for much more news and join the discussion on Facebook and on LinkedIn.