USGS Scientific Visualization Meeting - Call for Presentations Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 13:35:28 -0500 To: "USGS Employees" From: "Timothy A. Cohn" Subject: USGS Scientific Visualization Meeting - Call for Presentations Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Would you like to gain new insights from your scientific information? Learn how your USGS colleagues are using a range of scientific visualization methods and technologies to advance their research and applications. The USGS will hold a scientific visualization technical exchange meeting on April 16-17, 1997 at the Reston National Center. The meeting will serve as a forum for advancing USGS visualization capabilities in the areas of animation, terrain visualization, and World Wide Web applications. These visualization capabilities could be used for gaining new scientific insights, evaluating data or models, or as outreach and educational tools. The 2-day meeting will be an informal information exchange for sharing expertise and experience on available hardware, software tools, and applications, and to find opportunities for collaboration among scientists. The first and perhaps part of the second day will involve presentations of visualization activities and be open to all interested USGS employees. On the second day scientists will break into small groups to discuss specific topics of interest such as future visualization needs, animations, multimedia, modeling, World-Wide Web applications, and collaborative ideas for creative interdisciplinary applications. Following the meeting a Bureau visualization web page will be created that contains summaries of presentations, links to USGS visualization demonstrations, projects, and documents, and brief biographies for those involved in visualization projects. In recent years, the USGS has convened formal visualization workshops including peer-reviewed papers and interagency participation. Workshops were held in 1992 (Norfolk, VA), 1993 (Menlo Park) and 1994 (New Orleans). Since that time rapid changes in technology have been coupled with increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary science, information exchange, and multimedia presentations, particularly over the World Wide Web. This meeting is intended to be a less formal exchange internal to the USGS. To participate in the meeting as a presenter please E-mail the following information to scivis_meeting@usgs.gov or send it via the web at: http://batlab.er.usgs.gov/TEM/scivis_tem.html Presentation summaries need to be received by February 26, 1997: 1) Contact information - Name, Division, Phone, E-mail address 2) An up to 100 word overview of your proposed 20-minute presentation 3) A several sentence biography including any URL's or references to your work 4) Audiovisual needs If you can't participate in the meeting, but would like to have your response to items 2 and 3 posted on the visualization web page, please send them to the above E-mail address. Updated information including agenda and list of presentations will be available at: http://batlab.er.usgs.gov/TEM/scivis_tem.html If you have any questions about the meeting please contact your Division representative on the planning team: Paul Young, Meeting Coordinator, (NMD), (703) 648-5115, pyoung@usgs.gov James Robb (GD), (508) 457-2297, jrobb@usgs.gov Steve Regan (WRD), (703) 648-5896, rsregan@usgs.gov Karen Kaye (BRD), (703) 648-4219, karen_kaye@usgs.gov Brian Schachte (OPS), (703) 648-7131, bschacht@usgs.gov Greg Snyder (DO), (703) 648-4133, gsnyder@usgs.gov ******************************************** This is a message from... Paul M. Young U.S. Geological Survey (703) 648-5115 or pyoung@usgs.gov ********************************************