Dear IGU Community of Geographers The current IGU Executive Committee (EC) took office following the virtual General Assembly in August 2020. Since then, the EC has held several online meetings, one of which we devoted to refining an actionable Strategy to guide the IGU through the next four years, during which time we will celebrate [...]
The American Association of Geographers' annual meeting will be fully virtual in 2021. Attendees including geographers, GIS specialists, environmental scientists, and other leaders will share and discuss the latest in research and applications in geography, sustainability, and GIScience. The meeting will be held from Wednesday, April 7 - Sunday, April 11, and will feature more [...]
Dear IGU Colleagues, It is my great pleasure to release the calls of nominations of the candidates for the following two IGU Honors & Awards in 2021 on behalf of the IGU Executive Committee. The IGU Lauréat d’honneur, established to recognize individuals who have achieved particular distinction or who have rendered outstanding service in the [...]
Dear Colleagues Founded in 1990, the International Festival of Geography (FIG) welcomes every year 50,000 visitors for 3 days in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. It is in this small town of the Vosges that in 1507, to complete the "Universalis cosmographiae ilustrationes" by the cartographer Waldsee muller, the "Cosmographiae Introductio" was printed. It is known to be the [...]
Anthropogenic emissions are rapidly altering Earth’s climate, pushing it toward a warmer state for which there is no historical precedent. Although no perfect analog exists for such a disruption, Earth’s history includes past climate states—“paleoclimates”— that hold lessons for the future of our warming world. In a recent paper in the journal Science (see: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6517/eaay3701?rss=1) [...]
Geography Awareness Week, November 16-21, 2020 Resources for celebrating #GeographyAwarenessWeek #GeoWeek. We have day-by-day themes you can use to align your content with ours if you wish. Established by a joint resolution of the U.S. Congress in 1987, Geography Awareness Week (GAW) is observed the third week in November every year. In 2020, GAW will [...]
Dear colleagues, Let us inform you that the deadline for submission of session proposals for the 8th EUGEO Congress on the Geography of Europe has been extended to November 22, 2020. The 8th EUGEO Congress on the Geography of Europe will be held in Prague from June 28 to July 1, 2021. The congress is [...]
A friendly reminder that the nomination deadline for the 2020 WDS Data Stewardship Award is just two weeks away! Please consider nominating a deserving early career researcher such that their achievements in improving scientific data stewardship can be recognized and celebrated by the community. Nominations are open to any scientific organization, group, body, union, or [...]
** CALL for ABSTRACTS ** IGU Commission Geography of Governance 2021 Annual Conference "NEW CHALLENGES OF LOCAL GOVERNANCE IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY AND COMPLEXITY" Date: 23-25 June 2021 Location: Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland Faculty of Human Geography and Planning - Metropolitan Research Center Conference Website: https://sites.google.com/view/geogov2021/ Deadline for abstract submission: 1.02.2021
