|
| Social Events |
| Sunday Activities, September 21 |
6th Annual Golf Tournament
This year's tournament will be held at the host hotel, The Resort & Conference Center at Hyannis, which offers a challenging par 3
executive course. Tee off is at 10:00 am. Contact James Benoit at James.Benoit@town.barnstable.ma.us to register and for more information. |
Harbor Dinner Cruise
6:00 - 8:30 pm
Join fellow NEARC participants on a dinner cruise of Barnstable Harbor. Since 1981, Hyannis Whale Watcher Cruises of Cape Cod has been offering whale watch adventures as a platform for conservation and education to people of all ages from around the world. Naturalists will provide commentary on the local ecology and history of this unique area. The cost is $50.00 per person. |
| Monday Activities, September 22 |
Vendor Reception and Poster Social
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Have a beverage and chat with the vendors that support the conference. Learn what is new or improved in the GIS community. Posters will be on display and we encourage attendees to vote for their favorite entry. Poster presentations will be accepted until September 14, 2008. If you would like to submit a poster, please email it to Jacey Garceau at jacey@delaneymeetingevent.com. Poster set-up is from 11:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. on Monday. |
Dine Around and Pub Crawl
6:00 pm
Dinner is on your own on Monday night, and Hyannis has a great selection of restaurants within walking distance of the hotel. After dinner, join your colleagues at a selected group of watering holes. Stop by the registration desk for information on dining options and a pub crawl map. |
| Tuesday Activities, September 23 |
Old Fashioned New England Clam Bake
6:30 pm - 9:30pm
Join us for a clam bake featuring all of the traditional favorites, and showcasing local entertainment. |
| Wednesday Activities, September 24 |
ESRI ArcGIS 9.3 Seminar Series
1:00 - 5:00 pm
Join ESRI staff and GIS users from a variety of industries at a complimentary ArcGIS 9.3 seminar. Explore how to improve your entire GIS workflow as you learn what's new with ArcGIS 9.3. Discover how the latest geospatial software offers more than visualization—it's a comprehensive system for greatly enhancing your efficiency. Visit www.esri.com/events to register and for more information. |
| Keynote Speakers |
| Sunday, September 21 at 9:30 am |
Daniel Barstow
Daniel Barstow is Director of Center for Earth and Space Science Education (a division of TERC, an educational non-profit). He has been a PI or co-PI on several NSF, NOAA and NASA-funded projects, including Visualizing Earth, ISS EarthKAM, GLOBE, Windows on Earth and the National Conference on the Revolution in Earth and Space Science Education. He is a leading voice for state and national policy reform to “make the revolution real” in Earth and space science education. He was PI for the First National Conference on Educational Uses of GIS, and has developed a wide-range of educational learning activities and visualization applications that help students and teachers learn to explore home planet Earth.
|
| Monday, September 22 at 9:00 am |
Armando Carbonell, AICP
Armando Carbonell is Chairman of the Department of Planning and Urban Form at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, MA. He also teaches in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania and in the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He received his A.B. degree in geography from Clark University and was a Doctoral Fellow in geography at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. In 1986, he initiated Prospect: Cape Cod, the strategic planning project that led to the 1989 passage of the Cape Cod Commission Act. |
| Tuesday, September 23 at 9:00 am |
The Geographic Approach and Spatial Literacy
John Calkins, ESRI, Corporate Technical Evangelist
As GIS professionals, we all understand the value of geography. However, do we employ a geographic approach to problem solving? Are we capable of thinking spatially and seeing relationships and patterns in multi-dimensions? The more we understand and raise awareness of the geographic approach and spatial literacy, the more we can help our organizations achieve success. Explore and increase your abilities to think spatially through a different look at geographic problem solving around the world.
John Calkins has been with ESRI for 18 years and focuses on special projects that cut across the diversity of GIS applications and solutions around the world. Throughout the years he has focused on natural resources (forestry, petroleum), government, defense, intelligence, and science solutions. In 2000-01, he also consulted to CBS for the television series “The District” which was the first ever prime time television series utilizing a geographic information system. Other notable projects include establishing GIS in Antarctica at McMurdo Station and producing ESRI’s User Conference plenary sessions. Prior to joining ESRI, Mr. Calkins worked for Tenneco Oil Exploration and Production as a geological engineer. |
|
|
