[GRASSLIST:5827] GIS Fellowship for grad LA students

[Jack Varga]

The attached is a forwarded announcement directed at graduate students 
of Landscape Architecture for three annual $10,000.00 grants to be used 
"to promote and facilitate the integration of art, science, method, and 
technology in the study and profession of landscape architecture, and 
encourage the use of geographic information systems (GIS) as a framework 
for exploring integrated approaches to landscape assessment and 
intervention."

While the Fellowship is sponsored in part by ESRI, and includes "free" - 
as in beer - ESRI software (although I don't know exactly which, or if 
support is included), along with a computer and access to online ESRI 
training, it does NOT state you must use their software so long as the 
research promotes the use of GIS.

What an excellent opportunity for someone in any of the assorted 
communities pertaining to open source geospatial applications!

Unless the prerequisites are re-written to require the exclusive use of 
ESRI software, it is open to any landscape architecture graduate student 
in the US (and perhaps Canada) using the tools of their choice.  Even if 
it were modified to require the un-exclusive use of ESRI, one could 
demonstrate the effectiveness of using open source geospatial components 
along side COTS implementations.

Please forward this to any other lists you may subscribe to that are 
related to open source geospatial projects, (Thuban, PostGIS, OpenMap, 
etc.).

Best regards,

Jack Varga

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [LARCH-L] The Dangermond Fellowship
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:09:41 -0500
From: James F. Palmer <zooey at MAILBOX.SYR.EDU>
Reply-To: Landscape Architecture Electronic Forum <LARCH-L at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
To: LARCH-L at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU


The Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) is pleased to announce a new,
unique research funding opportunity for graduate students of landscape
architecture and their faculty advisors­the Dangermond Fellowship.

I am writing to encourage you to broadly disseminate this exciting
opportunity. Please go to
<http://www.laprofession.org/DangermondFellowship.htm>www.laprofession.org/DangermondFellowship.htm 

to print one or more 8½” by 11” color posters, and then display the
information prominently in your department on bulletin boards and in
graduate studios.

The Dangermond Fellowship, a national fellowship for graduate students of
landscape architecture at institutions in the United States, is jointly
sponsored by LAF, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) and the
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). The purpose of the
fellowship is to promote and facilitate the integration of art, science,
method, and technology in the study and profession of landscape
architecture, and encourage the use of geographic information systems (GIS)
as a framework for exploring integrated approaches to landscape assessment
and intervention.

The fellowship program will generate approximately $30,000 annually,
providing three fellowships of $10,000 each per year. Fellowship winners
will also receive a computer, ESRI software, and access to technical
training via ESRI’s Virtual Campus. Fellowship recipients will be invited
to present their projects at the ESRI Annual User Conference (July/August)
and at the ASLA Annual Convention (October/November). Separate funds will
be available to pay for the travel costs to these events for the students
and their principal advisor.

The fellowship program invites students, with support from their respective
universities, to submit project proposals to the fellowship committee for
review and evaluation. The fellowships will be awarded on the merits of the
proposals, demonstrated capacity of the student(s) to complete the work,
and the likelihood of success.

Students can submit proposals addressing any aspect of landscape
architecture as long as the proposal demonstrates the use of GIS as an
integrating framework for performing both landscape analysis and landscape
planning, design and management.

Application requirements and selection criteria are available at
<http://www.laprofession.org/financial/scholarships.htm>www.laprofession.org/financial/scholarships.htm. 

Applications must be postmarked by March 31, 2005.


Sincerely,

Ron Figura

Landscape Architecture Foundation

Scholarship Manager

202-331-7070 ext 10

<mailto:rfigura at lafoundation.org>rfigura at lafoundation.org


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                    James F. Palmer, Ph.D., FASLA
                 Professor of Landscape Architecture
        SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
                        Syracuse, NY 13210
     voice: 315 470-6548      internet: zooey at mailbox.syr.edu

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