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Subject:        Steering Geography into the Next Decade
Date:   Fri, 4 Apr 2008 16:52:23 -0700
From:   Deepsea Dawn <[log in to unmask]>
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Greetings colleagues:

The U.S. National Research Council's Committee on Strategic
Directions for the Geographical Sciences in the Next Decade is now
receiving public comment  on some very important/high profile
questions, in which geographic information science has a role:

(1) What should geographers be studying over the next ten years?

-- What makes geographers particularly suited to answer these questions?
-- What are the consequences of NOT bringing geographical
perspectives to bear on these questions?
-- What kinds of data or infrastructure are most critical to the
advancement of geographical research?
-- What new sets of skills and training will geographers need to
tackle forthcoming research areas?

(2) What are the greatest challenges facing the geographical sciences
today?

The public comment web site has just come online at

http://dels.nas.edu/besr/SD_questionnaire.cgi


You are very much welcome to enter your comments on this site!

Comments received by April 30, 2008, will be considered at the
committee's next meeting (May 21-23, 2008). However, the committee
welcomes any ideas until August 2008.

Cheers,

Dawn Wright
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Dawn Wright | Professor | Department of Geosciences
Oregon State University | Corvallis, OR 97331-5506
http://dusk.geo.orst.edu | 541-737-1229 phone | 541-737-1200 fax