KAGES Newsletter 12-2
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2016 KAGES Sim Student Travel Award
- Overview
Dr. Sim, Sun Hui is currently a faculty member in the Geography Department at the University of North Alabama. Through her generous sponsorship, “Sim Student Travel Award” was established in 2010 to provide financial assistance to graduate students in the research field of Geography, Geospatial Technologies and Environmental Sciences. This scholarship is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to the Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers. This award is for supporting the work of students who implement GIS/RS/Geospatial techniques into his/her research.
- Eligibility
- KAGES membership
- Scholarship is open to South Koreans and Korean-Americans.
- Applicants must be full-time graduate or undergraduate students in colleges/universities in North America.
- Applicants must present his/her research at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers.
- Former Sim Student Travel Award recipients may re-apply if they did not apply in the past two rounds while maintaining membership.
- Recipients should be present at the annual KAGES meeting to receive awards.
- Scholarship Award
- Amount: $500 (USD)
- Number of awardees per year: Two
- Field of Study: Geography, Geospatial Technologies and Environmental Sciences
- Application material
- 1-page cover letter (e.g., statement of professional goals, need for financial support, how this award will benefit the student’s studies)
- Application form
- 1-page curriculum vitae
- Transcript from currently-attending school (a scanned image or a PDF file directly printed off from the Web)
- Proof of conference presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (a scanned image from the AAG site).
- A brief letter/email indicating support from your department (e.g. Department Chair, Advisor)
- Submission: All materials should be submitted via email (support@kages.org).
2016_KAGES_StudentTravelAward_Application
- Application deadline: December 9, 2015.
KAGES will inform scholarship recipients by January 18, 2016. Further information is available at KAGES website (www.kages.org).
Call for Papers: Special issue on “Big Data and Geographic Information”
The International Journal of Geospatial and Environmental Research (IJGER, Editor Dr. Changjoo Kim) is an open-access, peer-reviewed international journal published on behalf of Korea-America Association for Geospatial and Environmental Sciences. IJGER provides a forum for discussion among researchers in all fields of geography, both human and physical, and environmental research that has an explicit spatial dimension (http://dc.uwm.edu/ijger/). It places particular emphasis on development and applications of geospatial technologies, such as geographic information system, remote sensing, and spatial analysis.
The Editors invite submission of papers that can be considered for inclusion in the special issue of IJGER, which is scheduled to be published by May 2016.
Recently, Big Data opened up for new insights on geographic information and technologies. We invite original research papers on theoretical developments and applications demonstrating the use of Big Data as well as tools and technologies of Big Data services.
The potential research topics for this special issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Theoretical developments and knowledge discovery with Big Data
- Big Data in geospatial and environmental sciences
- Measurement, analysis and methodological questions of Big Data
- Big Data infrastructure
- Institutional issues, organization and networks dealing with Big Data
- Application of Big Data
- Use of Big Data technologies
- Scientific Visualization of Big Data
- Data Mining
- Volunteered Geographic Information
- Big Data and education in geospatial and environmental sciences
Time-line
October 10, 2015: First solicitation of submissions
December 31, 2015: Abstract submission deadline (not more than 250 words; email to ijger.si3@gmail.com)
January 15, 2016: Email notification of abstract review results
March 31, 2016: Submission of manuscripts (submit at http://dc.uwm.edu/ijger)
May 31, 2016: Editorial decision sent to authors
July 31, 2016: Final revised paper submission deadline
August 15, 2016: Final editorial decision sent to authors
August 31, 2016: Manuscript published online
Inquiries should be directed to: Assistant Editor Dr. Sunhui Sim (ssim@una.edu)
2015 Scholarship Awardees
Congratulations to the 2015 Scholarship Awardees!
Sim Travel Award:
- Keumseok Koh (Michigan State University)
- Sungho Choi (Boston University)
Paper Award:
- Edward Park (The University of Texas at Austin)
- Young Rae Choi (The Ohio State University)
