SSI e-News

Date: 24 December 2008

Tags: Spatial Matters

SSI e-News SPATIAL MATTERS   Vol 1: 23 December 2008

 Inside this edition:

 

·        Christmas Message

·        ISA/SSI Merger Update

·        APSEA Award – Correction

·        Spatial Sciences Conference 2009, Adelaide –Important dates

·        SSI Indigenous SIG Website

·        Linked in – Are you?

·        SSI Membership Special Offer – 50% discount

·        Joint AMC and MSIA Conference, QLD  March 2009 - Abstracts Call

·        Perceptions of Terra Australis Symposium WA– June 2009–Abstracts Call

·        FIG 2009 – Online registration open

·        6th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality (ISSDQ 2009)

 

 

 

Christmas Message

 

As 2008 draws to a close, we can look back on a rather tumultuous few months and a very different future. It is hard to believe that the largest challenge we faced a few months ago was where we were going to find sufficient numbers of skilled staff to cope with the high demand for our services. Well, that issue has certainly disappeared and we are poised at the edge of a new and very different world.

 

It seems, therefore, rather prophetic that, for the Spatial Sciences Institute, 2009 will really be a year of change. A Special General Meeting of SSI will be held in February so that members can vote on the proposed merger between SSI and the Institute of Surveyors Australia. The merger working group, on behalf of the Boards of both organisations, has completed the prospectus outlining the new Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute. This prospectus will be mailed to all SSI members in January. However, an advance copy of the prospectus will be available on the Institute website by Christmas.

 

SSI is also planning a series of events during 2009, the most important of which will be the biennial Spatial Sciences Conference in Adelaide at the beginning of October, so mark that in your diaries now and get your abstracts written during the relatively quiet Christmas and New Year period.

 

Finally, I anticipate that 2009 will also be a groundbreaking year for our certification process, which has slowly been gaining recognition this year. The SSI Certified General Practitioner will continue to be available into the future, and the professional certification process is becoming available for all disciplines covered by SSI. The GISP-AP and the remote sensing professional certification has had significant numbers of members applying this year and the Engineering and Mining Surveyor professional certification process will become available for eligible members early in 2009.  All certification processes will continue through the new organisation.

 

On behalf of the Board and staff of SSI, I would like to wish all of you, and your families, a great Christmas and New Year and I look forward to working with you in 2009.

Dr Marnie Leybourne

President

 

                

 

 

ISA/SSI Merger Update

 

Key Dates:

·        Final MWG meeting was held on 16 December 2008

·        Prospectus to be issued to members  with notice of SGM by 27 January 2009

·        Vote for windup of orgs and transfer to new 27 February 2009

·        Invitation to join the S&SSI 28 February 2009

For the full update and Previous Communiqués

 

 

                  

                             

APSEA 08 Award-  correction

The APSEA 2008 Award  in the category of  Spatially Enabled Government published in the last edition should have read:

Spatially Enabled Government

Shared Land Information Platform (SLIP),

Government of WA – Landgate, Department of Agriculture, Department of Planning and Infrastructure and the Fire and Emergency Services Association

 

 

 

Spatial Sciences Conference 2009, Adelaide –Important dates

Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, South Australia, 28 September – 2 October 2009

Important dates for your diary:

·        Abstract Submission Deadline Friday, 6 February 2009

·        Registration Opens March 2009

·        Author Notification Friday, 27 March 2009

·        Refereed Paper Submission Deadline Friday, 1 May 2009

For more information: www.ssc2009.com

 

 

 

SSI Indigenous SIG Website

The SSI Indigenous Special Interest Group now has information on the SSI website. 

The group was formed to promote and inform indigenous perspective, heritage and participation in all aspects of the spatial sciences within

the Australia, New Zealand and South West Pacific region.

 

Do you want to be informed about activities of the ISG or becoming involved with the group?

Contact the SSI Indigenous Spatial Group at: ISG@Spatialsciences.org.au

For Website: http://www.spatialsciences.org.au

 

 

 

Linked in – Are you?

The SSI has an ever growing group on LinkedIn, a social network aimed at the professional community as a networking tool within a secure environment.

To find out more www.linkedin.com

 

 

 

 

SSI Membership Special Offer

Join the SSI now to receive a 50% discount on the usual membership fee for 2008-09.

Download membership form: Membership form

 

                    

                       

 

Joint AMC and MSIA Conference, Brisbane QLD  March 2009 - Call for Abstracts

The joint Australian Map Circle Inc. and Mapping Sciences Institute Australia Conference is to be held 16-18 March 2009 at Royal on the Park in Brisbane.  It coincides with the sesquicentennial of the establishment of Queensland as a separate colony. The theme of the Conference is "300 Years of Mapping: The Past 150 years and Next 150 years". The Conference provides a good opportunity to network and share information with others in the community.

 

As an added bonus, SSI members will be entitled to a discount in registration fees as a member of a professional organization.

For more details over time, please visit www.mappingsciences.org.au and follow the link for the Call for Abstracts/Papers. http://www.spatialsciences.org/images//conference_call_for_papers_2009.pdf

 

 

Perceptions of Terra Australis Symposium – 12-13 June 2009, Perth, WA – Call for Abstracts

A symposium jointly sponsored by the ARC Network for Early European Research and the Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group will be held at the University Club, University of Western Australia, 12 and 13 June 2009.

 

The symposium will focus on the concept itself and changes in the ways Terra Australis has been understood over a period of many centuries.

 

Keynote speakers:

Dr Albert Hiatt (University of Leeds), author of the newly published Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

Professor Mercedes Camino (University of Lancaster), Producing the Pacific: Maps & Narratives of Pacific Exploration 1567-1606

Emeritus Professor Norman Etherington (University of WA), author/editor of Mapping Colonial Conquest: Australia and South Africa

For more details contact Dr Claire McIlroy (UWA) at cmcilroy@cylene,uwa.edu.au

 

 

 

 

FIG 2009 – Online registration now open

Online Conference registration has opened and for details on how to register www.fig.net/fig2009

Inquiries on call for papers, abstracts, peer review process and technical programme, please contact the

For further information: FIG Office email: fig@fig.net

 

 

 

 

NEXT EDITION:  21  January 2009

Previous Editions available at:

http://www.spatialsciences.org.au

Your feedback and contributions are welcome

Please forward to the Editor – Pam Crockett info@spatialsciences.org.au