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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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