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The Australian Map Circle is holding its 23rd Annual Conference at the
University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia from 6 to
9 February, 1995.  The conference program is :
 
AUSTRALIAN MAP CIRCLE CONFERENCE 1995
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND ARMIDALE
 
PROVISIONAL PROGRAM
 
Sunday 5 February, 1995
1700    Registration at Mary White College
1830    BBQ at Mary White College
 
Monday 6 February, 1995
0830    Registration in Room G1, Department of Geography & Planning
0900    Opening of Conference
                Professor B.G. Thom, Vice Chancellor, UNE
                Professor D.J.Walmsley, Head, Department of Geography & Planning,
                UNE
                Maura O'Connor, President of the Australian Map Circle
0930    Keynote Paper
        Graham Baker (Secretary ANZLIC) - Developing a National
Infrastructure for Land and Geographic Information
1030    Morning Break
1100    Alan Jones & Dorothy Prescott - Digital Spatial Data and Libraries
        John Roberts - The University of Sydney Geography Map Library.
Problems of Survival : Is it a Beginning or an End?
1230    Lunch
1400    Ian Paxton - Digital Developments at the Land Information Centre
        Maura O'Connor - The National Library of Australia's Map Collection :
Moving into the Future
1515    Afternoon break
1545    Nick Rollings - CASI and Quantitative Water Quality Mapping
        Ian Bowie - "Whose Environment are we Mapping ?"
1700    Close
 
1900    Optional Workshop : Introduction to Internet and the World Wide Web
 
Tuesday 7 February, 1995
0900    Bruce Hooper - A GIS Decision Support System for Integrated
Environmental Management - a Proposal
        Roger Epps - Mapping Broom in Barrington Tops
1030    Morning break
1100    John Benson - Mapping Remnant Plant Communities in the Guyra Area
        Simon Ferrier - Mapping for Biological Conservation - the Role of GIS in
Data Collection, Analysis and Presentation
1230    Lunch
1400    Brian Williams - Hazard mapping
        Richard Cooper - The Hydrogeological Map Series of the Murray Basin
1515    Afternoon break
1545    Rob Robson - Construction of a Radar Elevation Model
        Peter Vickery - Mapping the Botanical Composition of Grazed Pasture in
the Temperate High Rainfall Zone of Eastern Australia
1700    Close
 
1900    Conference Dinner at Old Bishopscourt
 
Wednesday 8 February, 1995
0845    Field trip to New England National Park, Dutton Trout hatchery,
Cathedral Rock NP and Wollomombi Falls
 
1900    Optional Workshop : Computer Display of Spatial Data
 
Thursday 9 February, 1995
0900    Terry Cooke - Mapping for Orienteering
        Rudi Boskovic - Atlas Mapping in PNG
        John Ferry - The Robertson Land Acts in Central New England : An
Exercise in Historic Mapping and Interpretation
1030    Morning break
1100    AMC Annual General Meeting
1230    Lunch
1400    John Atchison - Towards an Australian place names project
        Chris Buckley - The Value of Maps and Charts in Regional and Family
        History
1530    Close of Conference - Afternoon tea
 
Full registration for AMC members is $225 and for non-members $250.  A late
fee of $50 applies after 10 December, 1994.  The optional workshops are $25
each.  For further details please contact Alan Jones at the address below.
 
 
 
 
Alan Jones,                                          email  :
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Department of Geography & Planning,    phone : 067 732430
University of New England,                    fax      : 067 711787
Armidale,
NSW 2351,
Australia.
 
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