Student awards are waiting for winners of the student paper competition.

The Award Committee of CPGIS invites your participation to the Best Student Paper Competition of the 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics (Geoinformatics 2009). The Competition is a long-standing tradition of CPGIS for promoting academic development of young scholars in geographical information science.

To be eligible for participating, the first author of the paper must meet ALL the conditions as follows:
(1) The author is currently enrolled graduate or undergraduate student;
(2) The author is a member of CPGIS (please go to www.cpgis.org to find out your membership status and the procedure for joining CPGIS);
(3) The author completes the main parts of the research and writing for the paper;
(4) The author receives the notice from Geoinformatics 2009 that his/her abstract has been accepted;
(5) The author has not used the paper to apply for other awards.

The Award Committee will invite renowned scholars to review the participating papers. Selected papers will be organized into special sessions of Geoinformatics 2009 for oral presentation. Judges appointed by the Award Committee will determine the final awardees based on qualities of both the paper and the presentation. Participating papers not selected for the competition sessions are still eligible to be included in other sessions of Geoinformatics 2009.

The awards include one First-Place Award ($600), one Second-Place Award ($300), and two Third-Place Awards ($150 each). Besides the monetary awards, awardees will also receive certificate plaques. The awards will be presented in the closing ceremony of Geoinformatics 2009. The awardees and their advisors will also be featured in the CPGIS News Letter.

The paper must strictly follow the format required by Geoinformatics 2009. You can find the format requirements at HERE.

Please first follow the regular process to submit abstract online at HERE. Once your abstract is accepted by Geoinformatics 2009 (you will receive a notice around Mar. 15, 2009), then submit the FULL paper online. Detailed instruction can be found in "Submission" section. Please also send a copy of the full paper by attaching the computer file to an email to xun.shi@dartmouth.edu (NOT to the Conference). The file must be in MS Word format.

The DEADLINE for submitting full paper for this competition is May 1, 2009.

Please forward all inquiries about this competition to:

Xun Shi, Ph.D
Chair of The Award Committee of CPGIS
Department of Geography
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
USA
1-603-646-0884
Xun.shi@dartmouth.edu