Group Travel to the International Cartographic Association Meetings, Barcelona, Spain; September 1995

9423620麦克马斯特这项奖金将为参加将于1995年9月在西班牙巴塞罗那举行的国际制图协会两年一次的会议的多达10名美国制图师提供团体旅行支助。该奖项支持的学者将发表论文并参加国际学术合作委员会和工作组。除了将在会议上分发的所有论文的论文集外，会议上提出的论文和编写的工作将通过若干国际审定期刊进行传播。过去美国参与这些会议的经验和美国国家科学基金会对这种参与的支持表明，美国学者在这些活动中发挥了重要作用，并发展了实质性的国际合作。美国人在国际舞台上特别活跃的制图研究领域包括过程可视化、空间数据泛化、空间数据标准和制图史。潜在参与者的广泛征集已经开始。PI将对ICA组织者接受的论文进行盲审，以帮助对申请该奖项提供的旅行援助的参与者进行排名。此外，NSF为支持参加1995年ICA会议的美国人提供的所有旅行资金将保留给在1989年期间或之后获得博士学位的早期职业科学家，或以前从未参加过ICA会议的更有经验的研究人员。

9423620 McMASTER This award will provide group travel support to up to 10 American cartographers to attend the bi-annual meetings of the International Cartographic Association, which will be held in Barcelona, Spain, in September 1995. Scholars supported by this award will present papers and will participate in ICA Commissions and Working Groups. In addition to a Proceedings volume of all papers, to be distributed at the meetings, papers given and work developed at the meetings will receive dissemination through several international, refereed journals. Past experience of American involvement in these meetings and of NSF support for this involvement suggests that American scholars play a major role in these activities, and develop substantial international collaboration. The areas of cartographic research in which Americans are particularly active in international arenas include process visualization, generalization of spatial data, spatial data standards, and the history of cartography. Wide solicitation of potential participants has already occurred. The PI will organize a blind review of papers accepted by the ICA organizers to help rank participants who are applying for the travel assistance enabled by this award. In addition, all NSF travel funds for support of Americans attending the 1995 ICA Meetings will be reserved for either early-career scientists who earned their Ph.D. during or after 1989, or for more experienced investigators who had never previously attended an ICA meeting.