[Esip-viz] Fwd: Fw: Workshop on Visualization Technolgies for scientists

[Erin Robinson]

Steve, Thanks for sharing this. Posted to the ESIP-Viz list.

Erin

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From: Steve Young <Young.Steve at epamail.epa.gov>
Date: Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:57 AM
Subject: Fw: Workshop on Visualization Technolgies for scientists
To: Erin Robinson <erinrobinson at esipfed.org>



Please post to ESIP if it seems appropriate. Hope you're doing OK.
Cheers,  Steve

Steve Young
Senior Advisor
US EPA, Office of Environmental Information
202-566-0608
young.steve at epa.gov
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From:   Kiki Schneider/DC/USEPA/US
To:     Richard Allen/DC/USEPA/US at EPA, Jerry
           Johnston/DC/USEPA/US at EPA, Steve Young/DC/USEPA/US at EPA,
           smith.davidg at epa.gov, Tom Scheitlin/RTP/USEPA/US at EPA, Philip
           Morefield/DC/USEPA/US at EPA
Date:   03/06/2012 09:45 AM
Subject:        Workshop on Visualization Technolgies for scientists



You all may be interested or know of people interested in this workshop
at a new Environmental Synthesis Center in
Annapolis, Maryland in July. All expenses paid for attendees.

Call for Workshop Participation
Visualization Technologies to Support Research on Human – Environment
Interactions

Who should apply: Social scientists, natural scientists, computational
scientists,
and humanities scholars who need to visualize spatial data as they solve
research problems
July 23-24, 2012
National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center Annapolis, Maryland
.
The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis (SESYNC) center is the newest
national
synthesis center funded by the National Science Foundation, with the
main vision to
foster synthetic, actionable science related to the structure,
functioning, and
sustainability of socio-environmental systems. The center supports
research on diverse
aspects related to the linkage between humans, societies, and the
environment but is
particularly encouraging work on the social dimensions of environmental
change and
environmental sustainability.

One of SESYNC’s strategic goals is to foster the development of
computational tools
and services in support of researchers including scholars studying
human-environment
interactions.

SESYNC is hosting this workshop to focus especially on the visualization
and use of
spatial datasets from the social and environmental sciences. The
workshop will discuss
and identify some of the current visualization challenges and emerging
opportunities in
using spatial datasets to study human-environment interactions. We
expect the
meeting to be a ‘problem-solving’ workshop wherein domain scientists
from the social
and environmental sciences can learn about visualization tools and
resources available
for their work and computational scientists can learn about the as-yet
unmet
visualization needs in the domain sciences.

More specifically, the workshop will bring computational and domain
scientists together
to: (i) discuss some of the visualization challenges associated with
using spatiotemporal
datasets; (ii) recommend possible collaborative IT efforts that could be
supported under the SESYNC’s programs or through other funding
mechanisms; and
(iii) set up a network of researchers to interact on a regular basis,
share information,
and exchange ideas about the priorities identified during the workshop.
The following keynote speakers have already agreed to participate in the
workshop:

 Dr. Daniel Aliaga, Computer Graphics and Visualization Lab, Department
of
Computer Science, Purdue University
(http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/aliaga)

Dr. Stephen Sheppard, Director of Collaborative for Advanced Landscape
Planning, Department of Forest Resources Management/Landscape
Architecture, University of British Columbia
(http://www.calp.forestry.ubc.ca/people/stephen/)

Dr. Ben Shneiderman, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, Department of
Computer Science and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies,
University of Maryland (http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben)

SESYNC invites interested computational and domain scientists to submit
abstracts (at
most one page) related to the main goals of this workshop. Abstracts
will be reviewed
by a SESYNC Committee and a subset will be invited to participate in the
workshop,
subject to meeting capacity.

Travel expenses of the lead authors of accepted abstracts will be
covered by SESYNC.
A small subset of the accepted abstracts will be invited for oral
presentations while the
rest will have poster presentations during the afternoon of the first
day of the workshop.
Please submit your abstract in PDF format by April 20, 2012 to:
cyber-workshop.application at sesync.org
SESYNC | 1 Park Place, Suite 300 | Annapolis, MD 21401 | 410.919.4810
www.sesync.org

Kiki Schneider
U.S. EPA: Office of Environmental Information
OIAA/IAD/ISB
Phone: (202) 566-1962 | Fax: (202) 566-0669

(See attached file: SESYNC-Visualization-Workshop.pdf)
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