<div class="gmail_quote"><div><p dir="LTR" align="CENTER"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">(With apologies for cross posting... Please see the below announcement for the biannual GIS in Water Resources conference of the American Water Resources Association in March 2010 in Orlando Florida. This conference has had a growing representation of projects from the OPEN SOURCE GIS world and it would be awesome to see that continue! - Dan Ames)</span></font></p>
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<p dir="LTR" align="CENTER"><span lang="en-us"><b></b></span><span lang="en-us"><b><font size="5" face="Calibri">AWRA Announces Call for Abstracts for Spring 2010 </font></b></span></p>
<p dir="LTR" align="CENTER"><span lang="en-us"><b><font size="5" face="Calibri">Conference on GIS in Water Resources</font></b></span></p>
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<p dir="LTR" align="RIGHT"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Calibri">Contact:</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font size="2" face="Calibri"> </font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font size="2" face="Calibri">Terry Meyer, AWRA Marketing</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR" align="RIGHT"><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Calibri">(540) 687-8390 or</font></span><span lang="en-us"> </span><a href="mailto:terry@awra.org" target="_blank"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u><font color="#0000FF" size="2" face="Calibri">terry@awra.org</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Calibri">The American Water Resources Association’s (AWRA) upcoming specialty conference on</font></span><span lang="en-us"> </span><a href="http://www.awra.org/meetings/Florida2010/" target="_blank"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u><font color="#0000FF" size="2" face="Calibri">GIS in Water Resources</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Calibri"> is accepting abstracts through October 9, 2009. The conference will take place March 29-31, 2010 at the Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel in Orlando, FL. Recognizing that</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font size="2" face="Calibri">Geographic Information Systems (GIS)</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Calibri"> have become a fundamental</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font size="2" face="Calib
ri">tool for the analysis, planning,</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font size="2" face="Calibri">and management of environmental and water resources systems</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Calibri">, AWRA launched a series of biennial conferences on this increasingly important topic for water resources professionals. The spring 2010 conference will be the sixth in this series. </font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Calibri">AWRA’s GIS conferences have seen b</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Calibri">oth the breadth and depth of GIS application areas in water resources and</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font size="2" face="Calibri">the</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Calibri"> variety of GIS software to</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Calibri">ols to support such efforts expand dramatically in recent years. This sixth specialty</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font size="2" face="Calibri">conference will include presentations and topics on a number of exciting new developments and research findings at the intersection of GIS and water resources engineering and sciences. Researchers, practitioners, and students working in this field are encourage
d to</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Calibri"> submit and abstract and plan to</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> <font size="2" face="Calibri">attend, keeping in mind that GIS includes commercial or open source software, custom geospatial modeling solutions, virtual worlds, web-based mapping, and more</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Calibri">. </font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Calibri">Visit the conference website for information about the conference or to submit your abstract: </font></span><span lang="en-us"> </span><a href="http://www.awra.org/meetings/Florida2010/" target="_blank"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u><font color="#0000FF" size="2" face="Calibri">http://www.awra.org/meetings/Florida2010/</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Calibri"> . The Conference Program Committee encourages abstracts on a wide-ranging menu of GIS topics. The complete list of topics can be accessed here: </font></span><span lang="en-us"> </span><a href="http://www.awra.org/meetings/Florida2010/topics.html" target="_blank"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u><font color="#0000FF" size="2" face="Calibri">http://www.awra.org/meetings/Florida2010/topics.html</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><s lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Calibri"> . The deadline for submission of abstracts is October 9, 2009.</font></s></p>
<p dir="LTR" align="CENTER"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Calibri">2010 AWRA Spring Specialty Conference</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR" align="CENTER"><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Calibri">GIS in Water Resources VI</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR" align="CENTER"><span lang="en-us"></span><a href="http://www.awra.org/meetings/Florida2010" target="_blank"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u><font color="#0000FF" size="2" face="Calibri">http://www.awra.org/meetings/Florida2010</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR" align="CENTER"><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Calibri">Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel | Orlando, FL</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR" align="CENTER"><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Calibri">March 29-31, 2010</font></span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Calibri">AWRA is the premier non-governmental organization dedicated to the advancement of multidisciplinary water resources management and research. For over 40 years, AWRA has provided a forum for water resources conservation and networking. AWRA has members in every state and in over 50 nations. More information at:</font></span><span lang="en-us"> </span><a href="http://www.awra.org" target="_blank"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><u><font color="#0000FF" size="2" face="Calibri">http://www.awra.org</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"><font size="2" face="Calibri">.</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"> </span></p>
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