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Nick Malizia presented a paper called "Effect of category aggregation on map comparison" and Anna Versluis presented a poster called "Visualizing the rate at which the accuracy of a land change prediction decays" at the combined meetings of the Third International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2004) and the Annual Assembly of the University Consortium of Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) at the University of Maryland. September 21: John O'Connor Awards Congratulations to the three HERO Fellows who are recipients of the John O'Connor Human-Environment Regional Observatory Fellowships! Ryan Frazier, Trevor Jones and Christopher Lippitt received recognition for this honor from Clark President John Bassett at a September awards ceremony.  Photo 1, left to right: Professor Gil Pontius, Ryan Frazier, Professor Susan Hanson, Trevor Jones, and Chris Lippitt Photo 2: HERO Fellow Trevor Jones with President John Bassett Photo 3: HERO Fellow Chris Lippitt Photo 4: HERO Fellow Ryan Frazier September 20: UCGIS Award HERO Research Assistant Anna Versluis was selected to present a paper at the Annual Assembly of the University Consortium of Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) that will be held in conjunction with the Third International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2004) at the University of Maryland from October 20-23, 2004. The award includes an $800 travel grant. September 12: GIScience Award HERO Fellow Nicholas Malizia won a $600 travel grant to present a paper at the Third International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2004) at the University of Maryland from October 20-23, 2004. Summer of 2004July 27: End-of-Summer HERO Gathering
June 28-July 1: Conference on Environmetrics and Spatial Accuracy Assessment HERO Fellows Christopher Lippitt and Nicholas Malizia presented papers at the joint meeting of The Fifteenth Annual Conference of The International Environmetrics Society and The Sixth Annual Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences in Portland, Maine. Citations R. G. Pontius, Jr. and C. Lippitt. 2004. A method to distinguish real landscape change from map error during map comparison. Conference proceedings of the joint meeting of The Fifteenth Annual Conference of The International Environmetrics Society and The Sixth Annual Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences. Portland ME. 9 p. R. G. Pontius, Jr. and N. R. Malizia. 2004. Effect of category aggregation on map comparison. in M. Egenhofer, C. Freksa, and H. Miller (eds): GIScience2004, Lecture notes in computer science, in press. Conference proceedings of the third international conference on geographic information science. University of Maryland. June 7-19: Seminar at Pennsylvania State UniversityHERO Fellows Rebecca Alper, Troy Hill and Zo Tobi undertook a two-week, intensive short course at Pennsylvania State University. The short course introduced the students to the concepts, data, and tools needed to study the local dimensions of global environmental change by covering such topics as climate variability and change, land-use change, natural hazards, socioeconomic drivers and impacts, and human vulnerability. The course was a mixture of lectures, lab exercises and field trips that dealt with climatic, hydrologic, land-use, and socioeconomic data as well as introducing geographic information systems, aerial photographs, remote sensing images, and interview techniques. Spring of 2004Papers and ConferencesNicholas Malizia will present a paper at the GIScience 2004 meeting to be held at the University of Maryland, October 20-23, 2004. This paper has been accepted for publication. Citation R. G. Pontius, Jr. and N. R. Malizia. 2004. Effect of category aggregation on map comparison. in M. Egenhofer, C. Freksa, and H. Miller (eds): GIScience2004, Lecture notes in computer science, in press. Conference proceedings of the third international conference on geographic information science. University of Maryland. April 29: Senior Honors Thesis Defense of Nicholas MaliziaHERO Fellow Nicholas Malizia successfully defended his Senior Honors Thesis "Effect of Category Aggregation on Measurement of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change." Dr. R. Gil Pontius, Jr. was the thesis advisor and Dr. Sam Ratick was the thesis reader. Nicholas received Highest Honors from the Clark University School of Geography for his thesis. Click here for more information on Nicholas and his research. April 1: M.S. Defense of Carissa Lee Williams HERO Fellow Carissa Lee Williams successfully defended her Master's thesis "Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the City of Worcester: How to Develop an Inventory and Plan for Reduction." Dr. Halina Brown of Clark's Environmental Science and Policy Program was the thesis advisor. Carissa's research was featured on the front page of Worcester's Telegram & Gazetteon April 11, 2004. March 14-19: Centennial Meeting of the Association of American Geographers HERO Fellows presented their prize-winning research at the Centennial Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.   Left: Maatsi Angwafo presented a poster on "The Vulnerability of Community Water Systems to Climate Change in Central Massachusetts." Right: Matthew Holden presented an illustrated paper, "Creating Historical Land Use Maps for Long-Term Change Analysis in Massachusetts." 
 Left: Yasmin Bowers presented a paper on "Evaluation of Vulnerability to Climate Change of Community Water Systems Among HERO Sites" in the session Climate and Renewable Resources of Energy. Right: Nicholas Malizia was selected as a finalist (with $500 award) in the GIS Specialty Group Student Paper Competition for his paper "The Effect of Category Aggregation on Land-Use and Cover Change Measurement." Nick competed against four doctoral students! 
 Left: David Kent presented a poster entitled "Involving Undergraduates in Geographic Research" in the Geography Education, Environment and Pirates session. Right: Christopher Lippitt won the Remote Sensing Specialty Group Student Paper Competition III: Experiments and Error with his paper "A Method to Distinguish Real Landscape Change from Map Error during Map Comparison."
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