Spring 2021

Recent Activities & Items of Interest

AGSG Business Items

• 2021 April Business Meeting: 

  • 332 Members (as of April 2021)
  • Awarded 16 travel and research awards in 2020
  • Sponsored 18 sessions at the 2021 Annual Meeting
  • Shared the 2021 Election results and confirmed the 2021-2023 board: 
  • Chair: Rebecca Loraamm, University of Oklahoma
  • Vice Chair: Enoch Terlumun Iortyom, Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology
  • Secretary: Amanda Clayton, NASA
  • Treasurer: Lauren Childs-Gleason, NASA
  
  

AAG Annual Meeting

• The 2022 AAG Annual Meeting will take place February 25 - March 1 and has transitioned a hybrid of virtual and in-person options. For more information, visit: https://www2.aag.org/aagannualmeeting/
• Jan 9th is the deadline to submit an abstract for poster presentation. 
  

Awards & Opportunities

• Check back in the fall newsletter for the 2022 the Applied Geography Specialty Group awards. More details coming soon.

Upcoming Opportunities & Events

Publishing Opportunities

• “Big Earth Data and Remote Sensing in Coastal Environments” special issue in Remote Sensing - submission deadline is Oct 31, 2021 - https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/big_earth_rs 
• “Multisource Remote Sensing Applications in Sustainable Urbanization: Advances and Challenges” special issue in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (J-STARS) - submission deadline June 30, 2021 - http://www.grss-ieee.org/jstars-special-issues/ 
• AAG Journals: http://www.aag.org/cs/publications/journals/ 

Upcoming Conferences

• 7/10-13: 2021 Esri User Conference  - https://www.esri.com/en-us/about/events/uc/save-date  
• Fall 2021: Applied Geography Conference (Toledo, OH) - https://www.appgeogconf.org/2021-conference.html

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