The South Dakota Gap Analysis Project
and
USGS EROS Data Center
Announce

Call for Papers and Posters

11th Annual
National Gap Analysis
Program Meeting

Brookings Area Multiplex,
Brookings, South Dakota

June 17-20, 2001

The 11th Annual Gap Analysis Program Meeting

Sponsored by

National Gap Analysis Program
South Dakota Gap Analysis Project
USGS EROS Data Center

We invite you to join us to share research and results from completed and ongoing state projects, related research projects, and GAP applications implemented to increase and sustain biodiversity.  This meeting will be held at the Brookings Area Multiplex in Brookings, South Dakota, from June 17-20, 2001. 

Concurrent sessions and workshops will feature discussions of Aquatic GAP, partnerships, GAP applications, planning, policy, and collaboration.  A special afternoon session and panel discussion focused on land cover mapping will be held for participants at EROS Data Center, near Sioux Falls, South Dakota.  Tours of the EROS Data Center will also be available.

Each GAP topic will be addressed within working sessions that will educate participants and include extensive discussion to identify: (1) research agendas to address needs and opportunities, (2) needed revisions or additions to program standards, and (3) new or modified methods that should be investigated and adopted.  Results will be reported to participants and used by the national program to revise the GAP Handbook and establish a research agenda.

Paper Requirements

Selected papers will demonstrate and evaluate GAP practices and applications of GAP data.  Sessions will be in workshop format, therefore papers will need to promote discussion and suggest needs for research, development, or new standards.

Submitted papers should address:

• Mapping and Modeling Science
    -- Modeling ecosystems
    -- Plant, vertebrate, invertebrate modeling
  

• Partnerships and Collaboration
  -- Interagency cooperation
  

• Socioeconomics, Policy, and Planning
  -- Socioeconomic data and GAP
  -- Planning policies and GAP
  -- Ecosystem initiatives and GAP

• Aquatic GAP
  -- Comparison and contrast of methods
  -- Results to date
  -- Aquatic applications
  
• Applications and Tools
  -- Decision support systems

• Innovations from the Great Plains
  

  Papers can be presented using overhead, conventional slide, or LCD projectors.  Please submit abstracts no later than February 28, 2001. 

Workshops and Technical Demos

We invite proposals for hands-on workshops and technical demonstrations of tools, decision support systems, interactive CD-ROMs, etc.  Workshop proposals should address the purpose, content, and duration.  Technical demonstrations should provide a title and descriptive abstract.  Please submit your workshop proposal or technical demonstration abstract no later than February 28, 2001.  Send submissions electronically to vickie_smith@sdstate.edu.

Poster Requirements

Posters should be original work relating to GAP projects, use of GAP data, or work completed in cooperation with GAP projects.  They should be no larger than 3' X 5' (for larger layouts you must make special arrangements).   Please submit the title of your poster to Vickie Smith at vickie_smith@sdstate.edu no later than March 15, 2001.  The poster session will be available during the social mixer and daily breaks to allow authors and participants the opportunity to discuss the materials presented.

Include names, affiliations, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses for all authors.  Abstract must be 250 words or less.  Include the first and second choice for the session you would prefer to address and type of projector required for your presentation.  Send electronically to vickie_smith@sdstate.edu. Abstracts and proposals must be received by February 28, 2001 for consideration.

Web Publishing of Presentations

All papers, slides, overhead visual aids, and posters must be made available in digital form and sized for web browser viewing on the GAP web site. You may provide a web address so a link can be established to the GAP home page or submit your material via FTP to the National GAP Office by May 15, 2001.

  Dates to Remember

Deadline for submitting papers and workshop and technical demonstration proposals: February 28, 2001

Deadline for submitting posters: March 15, 2001

Deadline for submitting in digital format: May 15, 2001

For more information, call (208) 885-3555 or email gap@uidaho.edu.