The Award Committee of CPGIS invites your participation to the Best Student Paper Competition of the 18th International Conference on Geoinformatics (Geoinformatics 2010, Beijing) (If you are an advisor, please encourage your students to participate). The Competition is a long-standing tradition of CPGIS for promoting academic development of young scholars in geographical information science.

WHAT'S NEW THIS YEAR: The journal of CPGIS, Annals of GIS (now published by Taylor & Francis, a world-leading academic publisher) holds the privilege of first considering publishing the awarded papers. Your participation to the competition indicates that you agree to give Annals of GIS this privilege. All the awarded papers will go through the normal peer-review process of the journal. In case the journal decides not to publish your awarded paper, the paper is still eligible to be published in the Conference proceedings. Note: currently Annals of GIS is NOT an SCI journal yet.

Different from other full papers submitted to the Conference, papers submitted for the Competition must strictly follow the format required by Annals of GIS. You can find the format requirements at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/tagi.

To be eligible for participating, the first author of the paper must meet ALL the conditions as follows:

(1) The author is a currently enrolled graduate or undergraduate student;

(2) The author is a member of CPGIS (please go to www.cpgis.org to find out your membership status and the procedure for joining CPGIS);

(3) The author completes the main parts of the research and writing for the paper;

(4) The author receives the notice from Geoinformatics 2010 that his/her abstract has been accepted;

(5) The author has not used the paper to apply for other awards.

The Award Committee will invite renowned scholars to review the participating papers. Selected papers will be organized into special sessions of Geoinformatics 2010 for oral presentation. Judges appointed by the Award Committee will determine the final awardees based on qualities of both the paper and the presentation. Participating papers not selected for the competition sessions are still eligible to be included in other sessions of Geoinformatics 2010.

The awards include one First-Place Award ($600), one Second-Place Award ($300), and two Third-Place Awards ($150 each). Besides the monetary awards, awardees will receive certificate plaques. The awards will be presented in the closing ceremony of Geoinformatics 2010. The awardees and their advisors will be featured in the CPGIS News Letter.

Please submit the FULL paper by attaching the computer file to an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (NOT to the Conference). The file must be in MS Word format.

The DEADLINE for submitting full paper for this competition is April 7, 2010.

Please forward all inquiries about this competition to:

Xun Shi, Ph.D

Chair of The Award Committee of CPGIS

Department of Geography

Dartmouth College

Hanover, NH 03755, USA

1-603-646-0884

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