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    More about the GIS Day 2007 Conference



On Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 the New Hampshire Space Grant Consortium and Complex Systems Research Center will be hosting their ninth annual GIS Day Conference and College Fair at the Institute for the Study of Earth Oceans and Space at the University of New Hampshire. GIS Day is a day set aside during National Geography Awareness Week for Geo-Spatial Science professionals to reach out and educate people of all ages about the important contributions that Geo-Spatial Science related technologies make in all of our lives. Invited guests to this year's GIS Day conference include hundreds of high school junior and senior level students, Geo-Spatial Science professionals, university students and members of the general public. Anticipated attendance for the day is expected to top off at over eight hundred participants from all over Northern New England.

 
 
 
      

Professionals, students and all public guests will be hosted to many attractions and events at this year's GIS Day 2007 Conference and College Fair including this year's featured attraction, the "Travel, Tourism, and Recreation Cartographic Exhibition" . This exhibition features a grand collection of over one hundred and fifty professional high quality maps portraying spectacular, full color, global, regional and local cartographic views or popular and exotic travel destinations from all around the world. Featured products on exhibit at this exhibit indclude fantasticly detailed United States National Park Maps, Wonders of the World Maps, Historic Travel Maps, State and Country Maps, Road Maps, City Maps, Vacation Maps and Recreation Maps.

Other features and events occurring at this year's conference include an extensive modern cartographic exhibition, a Geo-Spatial Science college fair, a professional Geo-Science vendor hall, and hands on, state-of-the-art GIS and Remote Sensing laboratory tours. This year's GIS Day Modern Cartographic Exhibition will feature dozens of maps and posters from presenters from all around the state from many sectors of the Geo-Spatial Science community including urban planning, resource management, emergency management, education, science, government, and industry. This year's GIS Day Geo-Spatial Science College Fair will feature representatives from many regional Geo-Spatial Science undergraduate, graduate degree and certificate programs. All guests will also be hosted to a professional hardware, software and geographic products Vendor Hall featuring leading companies and organizations in the Geo-Science industry.


     

In an effort to further enhance geographic knowledge all students will also be hosted to a series of talks and provided with packets of information about career, educational and technology opportunities with the Geo-Spatial Sciences. In the afternoon professional and public guests will also be hosted to a series of professional vendor and data provider talks and presentations.



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