For more information please see:

http://www.aag.org/cs/news_detail?pressrelease.id=1559

When:  November 15, 2012

Where: Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library

Program of Events:

8:00-4:00 Student GIST Poster Display, J. Wray and Joan Billingsley Pierce Grand Foyer (second floor)

View posters submitted by students that show how geospatial technology is used in various ways.
From 12:30 to 1 p.m., attend a poster session where you can talk with the student authors about their posters. Winners of the campus-wide poster contest will be announced at the conclusion of the speaker presentations in Room 205 at 3:30 p.m.

10:00-12:30 Software Demonstrations, Digital Humanities Center, Room 109A

Drop in for a few minutes or stay for the entire session to see GIS software in action; watch demonstrations of digital map-making; view Map Books containing digital maps created for a variety of subjects, and learn about academic and career opportunities in geospatial sciences and technologies.

12:30 -1:00 Student GIST Poster Session, J. Wray and Joan Billingsley Pierce Grand Foyer (second floor) 

Attend a poster session where you can talk with the student authors of the poster entries in the campus-wide GIST contest.  They will answer questions and explain how they used geospatial sciences and technologies in their projects.

1:00-4:00 Speaker’s Presentations, Room 205

Geospatial scientists and practitioners will present and explain how they use GIS, Remote Sensing and other geospatial technologies in their work.  During the afternoon session, the winners of the student poster contest will be announced.  After the presentation the student award winners will be available beside their posters to answer questions.

The College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Geography are sponsoring a poster contest open to all University of Alabama undergraduate and graduate student users of Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing and other Geospatial Technologies.

Posters will be displayed and competition winners will be announced on Thursday, November 15, 2012, in the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library. The poster competition is part of a larger event sponsored by the University Libraries’ and the College of Arts and Sciences’ to highlight the widespread applications of geospatial sciences and technologies.

Undergraduate and graduate submissions will be judged separately, and the winners in each category will receive CASH PRIZES in the amount of the following:

1st place:   $250

2nd place:  $150

3rd place:     $50

Posters may reflect student research from any college on campus.  However, the poster’s theme must emphasize how geospatial sciences and technologies were used in the research process.

Submission Instructions and Evaluation Criteria

Submission Instructions

The Deadline for all poster submissions is November 5, 2012

All submissions must be in .pdf format and emailed to BOTH of the following addresses:             lwatson@bama.ua.edu,  cartlab@bama.ua.edu

• Final posters will be printed at a size of 24 x 36 inches.  It is the student’s responsibility to make sure that the contents of his/her poster conform to these dimensions.  We cannot make modifications to the content of the posters.  The Department of Geography will print the posters and ensure that they are laminated and mounted at no cost to the student.
• In the subject line of the email, please indicate that your status as an undergraduate or graduate, and in the body of the email, please include the following:
  • Student’s name
  • Title of the poster
  • Academic status Junior, Senior, Masters’ candidate, etc.
  • Major/Department

Poster Content

• The poster must include student’s name, title, academic status and department or major.
• The poster should feature geospatial technologies as either the research focus or in support of a broader study.
• Each poster must have at least one map or image, preferably more, which demonstrate(s) the outcome or results of the research and significant methodological steps along the way.
• The text on the posters must state a research question or geospatial problem to be examined; outline a research methodology, outcomes and conclusions.  However, the accompanying textual information must have as its PRIMARY focus the geospatial technologies used to conduct the research, including the specific software and versions of that software used.
• Sources of data used in creating the posters must be properly cited.

Evaluation Criteria

Posters will be judged by non-users of the softwares, so your explanations should be free of technical jargon.  If you choose to use acronyms, prior to using them, spell them out, and be sure to explain what they mean.  In addition, the following criteria will apply:

• Clarity and completeness of presentation- Is the content of the poster presented in such a way that it is understandable to a general audience who have never, or do not typically, use these technologies?  Is there a logical consistency to your poster?
• Design- Are the contents of the poster presented in a visually pleasing manner; do maps and images conform to cartographic design principles (title, legend, north arrow, etc); are the textual components free of typographical errors and presented neatly?
• Citations- Are your datasets sourced; if you create your own data, is your methodology in doing so clearly explained?

The posters will be displayed on November 15th on the second floor of the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library prior to the Geospatial Information Sciences and Technologies Awareness Day Symposium.  All contestants are expected to be in the poster display area at 12:30 and to attend the Symposium beginning at 1:00.  The awards will be announced at the end of the Symposium.

]]> http://geography.ua.edu/news/?feed=rss2&p=163 0 http://geography.ua.edu/news/?p=156 http://geography.ua.edu/news/?p=156#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:39:40 +0000 jhart http://geography.ua.edu/news/?p=156 The Department of Geography would like to welcome the following students into our graduate program.

Filiberto Asare-Akuffo

Merrit Cowden

Steven Driskell

Freya Gibbon

Nicholas Haney

Amanda Hoffman

Xuehan Jing

Morgan Terry

Ryan Vaughn

Tom Weber

Stephen White

Welcome to the Capstone and Roll Tide!

Schedule of Research Presentations:

Monday, March 5, 10:30am, Farrah Hall, room 220: Interactions among vegetation,

soil, and aeolian processes: observations and modeling – Junran Li, UCLA

Wednesday, March 7, 2:00pm, Farrah Hall, room 120: Vegetation dynamics as a

diagnostic tool for forested watershed systems – Taehee Hwang, UNC,

Chapel Hill

Friday, March 9, 2:00pm, Farrah Hall, 120: Bridging spatial and temporal

scales in numerical modeling of earth surface processes – Sagy Cohen,

CSDMS, INSTAAR, UC, Boulder

Faculty represented by the department at the conference were:

David M. Brommer, University of Alabama: From Warning to Action: Tornado Warning Lead Time and Personal Protection Decisions from the University of Alabama Community During the April 27, 2011 Tornado.

Saskia L. van de Gevel, Appalachian State University, Justin L. Hart, The University of Alabama,
Mark D. Spond, Appalachian State University, Philip B. White, Appalachian State University,
Megan N. Sutton, The Nature Conservancy, and Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, University of Tennessee: American Chestnut to Red Oak: a Dendroecological Study of Forest Succession in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.

Justin Hart1 , Megan Buchanan1, Stacy Clark2, Scott Torreano3: 1Department of Geography, University of Alabama,2Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, 3Department of Forestry and Geology, University of the South: Old-growth on the tablelands of the Cumberland Plateau: forest history and management implications.

Jason C. Senkbeil, J.M. Mason, and M.S. Rockman, University of Alabama: Shelter Seeking Behavior of Tuscaloosa Residents for a Future Tornado Event.

Bronwen Lichtenstein and Joe Weber, University of Alabama: Race, Income Disparities and Mortgage Foreclosure in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.

Bobby Wilson, University of Alabama: Postbellum Racial State and Capital.

Bobby Wilson also participated in a Panel Discussion titled, Troy Davis Execution: Life and Death in the Racial State

Current graduate students of the department that presented posters were:

Ben Lundberg, Accessibility and University Populations: Effects on Non-Motorized Transportation in the Tuscaloosa-Northport Area

Meganne Rockman, The Role of Hurricane Intensity and Track on Evacuation Decision Making of Pensacola, FL Residents

Cory Rhodes, Frequency and intensity of tornadoes produced by tropical cyclones and tropical lows in landfalling gulf coast storms

Courtney Thompson, The Impact of Social Network Communication During the April 27, 2011 Tuscaloosa, Alabama Tornado

Zach Tyler, Lake Tuscaloosa and the North River: An Analysis and Plans to Improve Water Quality