Уважаемые коллеги!
Поздравляю всех с наступившими и наступающими праздниками, и спешу сообщить
о стартовавшей только что программе стипендий Общества Природоохранных ГИС
(Society for Conservation GIS, SCGIS) на 2005 год. В рамках данной программы
сотрудникам природоохранных организаций предоставляется частичное финансирование
на поездку в США в июле-августе 2005 года для участия в конференциях SCGIS и
ESRI, а также для прохождения курсов по программным продуктам фирмы ESRI. Все
подробности в объявлении ниже.
Заявка заполняется и подаётся на английском языке. Рабочим языком обеих
конференций и учебных курсов также будет английский, синхронный перевод на
другие языки не предусмотрен. Если вы решите подать заявку и потенциально
поехать в США, то вам необходимо будет знание английского на уровне общения с
коллегами и понимания предметной области. Исходя из сказанного, в этом году я
решил не переводить анонс и инструкции. Однако, если у вас будут возникать
вопросы по заполнению заявки, не стесняйтесь задавать мне, пишите на адрес
yumakaev@xxxxxxxxx . В середине января я
буду несколько занят, но постараюсь ответить на ваши вопросы, как только
смогу.
Данный анонс подлежит свободному распространению, так что, пожалуйста,
направьте его тем, кто по вашему мнению может быть в данной программе
заинтересован.
Всего доброго,
Александр Юмакаев
28.12.2004
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The Society for Conservation GIS
Announces
"2005 International Scholarship Awards Program"
The Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS - <
http://www.scgis.org>) would like
to
invite you to join us for GIS software trainings, the Eighth Annual
SCGIS
Conference, to be held from July 31 - August 2, 2005 at Monterey,
California
(USA) and the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
User
Conference at San Diego, California (USA) from July 25-29th, 2005.
GIS Trainings, which will occur prior to and following the SCGIS
Conference,
will be focused on the Environmental Systems Research Institute
(ESRI) suite
of GIS software. The conference will provide a venue to discuss
and promote
local and global conservation of natural and cultural resources
through
geospatial technologies as well as provide a venue to establish long
lasting
and productive partnerships with fellow conservationists. We are
busy
designing a diverse conference agenda that will explore a variety of
issues
ranging from the technical applications of GIS in conservation to
recurring
philosophical and ethical issues faced by conservationists
throughout the
world. We will also address the role of the Society in the
development of
the global Conservation Community.
Conservation GIS users who require financial assistance to enable them
to
attend the Conferences and GIS trainings can apply for limited,
competitive
scholarships following the steps below. Scholarship funds will
cover partial
airfare, and waivers for SCGIS and ESRI User conference
registration fees,
as well as tuition for the pre and post conference GIS
trainings. This
year's training curriculum will be dictated by the
skill-level of accepted
applicants. All efforts will be made to accommodate
your specific training
needs.
Scholarship application requirements are as
follows:
1) Applicants must be affiliated with
a NON-PROFIT CONSERVATION
ORGANIZATION or a UNIVERSITY CONSERVATION PROJECT
in their region or
country.
2) COMPLETED
APPLICATION FORM (see below).
3) A COVER LETTER
from the HEAD of your Organization that must detail
the national or
international conservation organization's focus and current
projects; the
applicant's role in the organization and current projects must
be defined.
The NAME and DIRECT/PERSONAL E-MAIL ADDRESS of the HEAD of your
organization
should be clearly stated in the letter.
4) TWO
REFERRAL LETTERS from people representing other organizations,
one from
someone familiar with your professional GIS or Scientific work or
studies,
and one from someone who can vouch for you personally, your
character and
commitment to conservation and/or social service. Both
letters need to
be specific and detailed in covering as many areas as your
referee can
provide honestly in regard to your GIS or Scientific experience
and
activities and your personal character and sincerity. The NAMES
and
DIRECT/PERSONAL E-MAIL ADDRESSES of referees should be clearly stated in
the
letter.
5) Completed Application Form
and all letters should be sent ONLY VIA
EMAIL to all the following addresses:
ecp2@xxxxxxxx <
mailto:ecp2@xxxxxxxx>,
<mailto:>
ecp10@xxxxxxxx <
mailto:ecp10@xxxxxxxx> and
scgis2005@xxxxxxxxx<
mailto:scgis2005@xxxxxxxxx>
6)
It is important for the applicants to make a very strong effort to
supply as
much of their own funding for travel to the conferences, as
possible.
PREFERENCE WILL BE GIVEN TO THOSE WHO MAKE A SINCERE EFFORT TO
OBTAIN SOME OF
THEIR OWN FUNDING. Accordingly, the applicant must supply
information
about additional funding they have been able to or hope
to
secure.
7) Scholarship awardees will be
required to:
a) PRESENT A TALK AND A POSTER at the SCGIS
conference
describing their conservation efforts and projects within
their
organization.
b) PRESENT THIS TALK AND POSTER in the
Conservation Booth/Area
at the ESRI User
Conference.
c) BE AVAILABLE TO VOLUNTEER to help run the SCGIS
conference.
We expect recipients to volunteer for approx. 4 hours over the
course of the
conference. Some work may take place during sessions, but
adjustments can
be made to ensure that volunteers attend the sessions that
are most
important to them. Details for volunteers will be provided
shortly before
the conference) Scholarship recipients will also be required
to write a
paper about their projects for inclusion in the post-conference
SCGIS
newsletter.
8) CLOSING DATE for SCGIS
conference scholarship applications is
January 31st, 2005. Applications
ONLY VIA E-MAIL must be received by the
above date.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact:
Charles Convis,
Chair - SCGIS International Committee at
ecp2@xxxxxxxxor
Prashant Hedao, Co-Chair
International Networks Committee at
ecp10@xxxxxxxxor
Alexander Yumakaev at
scgis2005@xxxxxxxxx
Charles Convis
Chair, SCGIS International Committee
C/o ESRI
380
New York Street
Redlands CA 92373, USA
Website:
http://www.scgis.org+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
[SOCIETY FOR CONSERVATION GIS]
[SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION FORM 2005]
Please read the instructions COMPLETELY before preparing and emailing
in
your application. The application form itself is at the end of these
instructions.
CONTENTS
-APPLICATION
INSTRUCTIONS
*===ELIGIBILITY
*===INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETING
FORM
*===HELP RESOURCES
-APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
*===ELIGIBILITY
Grants are made on a competitive basis to individuals
working with GIS in
conservation science and action in any country.
Preference goes to those who
are working for or associated with a non-profit
or non government
organization, who can show some ability to find local
funding for their work
and who show an ability to teach about conservation
GIS to other non-profit
organizations in their region or country.
*===YOUR OBLIGATIONS
If granted, you will be obligated to present a
paper or demonstration of
your work at the SCGIS conference, file a post
conference report and a
status report on your work one year after the
conference.
The status report can be any length, and you are encouraged to
include
examples of the mapping, analysis or teaching work you were able to
do.
Please send your status report to the same address as you send
this
application.
You may also be asked to send photos, text or maps
during the year to help
SCGIS prepare stories or articles on your work for
publication in the SCGIS
newsletter.
*===INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETING FORM
This form is for EMAIL SUBMISSION
ONLY as directed below. To complete this
form, please type in your answer at
the end of each and every question,
after the colon (?:) You can type as much
text as you want and add or paste
in as many lines as you want between the
colon (:)and the * at the beginning
of the next line.
PLEASE DO NOT ERASE ANY OF THE QUESTIONS, EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT FILLING
THOSE, JUST LEAVE THEM BLANK.
DO NOT SEND THE COMPLETED FORM AS AN ATTACHMENT.
************IMPORTANT*************
For the subject of your email, write
in your organization's name,
state/country and the date.
For
Example: "RAINFOREST NETWORK, CANADA, JAN 01, 2005".
You MUST also delete everything above the indicated line at the top of
the
form or your email will not be properly routed.
If your request is granted, non-confidential information may be posted
on
the Society for Conservation GIS website at <
http://www.scgis.org>, or
reprinted in
the SCGIS newsletter.
*===SECTION-BY-SECTION INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETING FORM.
REMEMBER, THE
FOLLOWING ARE INSTRUCTIONS ONLY. THE ACTUAL
FORM FOLLOWS AFTER THESE
INSTRUCTIONS.
Enter today's date at the top of the form.
[*R]==SPECIFIC REQUEST (CONFIDENTIAL): please enter what you are
requesting
in this section. The things, which can be granted through
this form, are:
Airfare scholarship: 1) Enter the TOTAL airfare from YOUR
nearest
International Airport to LOS ANGELES, California USA. Please
research and
provide airfares 2) Enter the dollar amount you want to request
to help you
afford the airfare to the USA. 3) Enter the amount you
expect to be able to
raise locally by yourself. If you are granted a
partial scholarship, SCGIS
will also send you a formal letter, that you can
use to help raise funds
locally.
SCGIS Conference Fees: Enter "YES" if you wish to apply for a
registration
fee waiver of the SCGIS conference, which is about US
$80.00
ESRI Conference Fees: Enter "YES" if you wish to apply for a
registration
fee waiver of the ESRI International User Conference, which is
about US $1200.00
ESRI GIS training: Enter "YES" if you wish to receive GIS training.
Courses
covering the most current versions of ArcView and ArcGIS/ArcInfo,
and
conservation GIS mapping (maybe) will be offered in the two weeks
preceding,
and during weeks after the SCGIS & ESRI Conferences.
Accommodations: Enter "YES" if you need help finding or paying
for
accommodations, and approximately which days. Please know that some or
most
of the accommodation we are able to arrange for you will be at
people's
homes, shared dormitories and occasionally camping. If for some
reason you
are not able to or willing to accept such accommodations please
give details
about the kind of accommodation you are not able to accept and
why. Enter
"NO" if you will arrange for your own accommodation.
The total cost of LOCAL TRANSPORT (between conferences and
trainings),
ACCOMMODATION and FOOD for 4 weeks amounts to about
$1000.00. You should
let us know how much YOU can afford to pay from
this amount.
[*O]==ORGANIZATION data: Please fill in the general contact information
for
your organization. If applying as an individual, you can enter your
own
name here, but you must still complete the contact data section in
full.
Budget information: Please enter your best estimates of your last year
total
organizational budget, and your best estimate of last year's total
GIS
budget including hardware, software, salaries and maintenance.
[*C]==REQUIRED APPLICANT/STUDENT data: Please fill in your personal
contact
information here.
"Your prefered first name or informal name": Because naming traditions
and
order of a person's names are different in different regions of the
world,
please indicate the name that can be used in situations when full
names are
unnecessary - this will help us to avoid confusions during
communication.
For the "Alternate contact", fill out the details of a person who can
be
contacted to convey important information in your absence.
[*M]==MENTOR data: Please describe (if any) the main Mentor or
international
organization that sponsors and/or supports your work.
[*G]==GIS EXPERTISE LEVEL/COURSES data: Please briefly explain your
"GIS
expertise / capability level" - BEGINNER, MEDIUM or ADVANCED.
BEGINNER - Know about basic concepts of GIS and have used ArcExplorer
or
similar level of GIS software.
MEDIUM - Know about the analysis
concepts of GIS and have used ArcView 3x or
similar level of GIS
software
ADVANCED - Have been a GIS user for many years and have used the
Advanced
ArcView or ArcGIS/ArcInfo or similar level of GIS software.
Please also mention if you have any programming experience, please note
that
knowledge of programming is not necessary for using GIS.
What GIS software you have used (if any) or are familiar with? And
while in
California what GIS courses you would like to attend? Please
go through the
list of courses and descriptions at
http://www.esri.com/training/
and
identify the courses that you would like to take, listing them in the
order
of priority. Although typically we can provide you seats in only 3-4
courses
during the training, you can list as many courses as you want.
Not
all requests may be available at the actual time of training; however,
we
will try our best to accommodate your needs.
*REQUIRED JUSTIFICATION (CONFIDENTIAL)? Enter here a specific
justification
for why you need a grant
*===HELP RESOURCES
You may contact the following persons who have agreed
to provide help to
applicants on an as-available basis. Email is the most
reliable contact method.
Charles Convis, Chair, SCGIS International Committee
Email:
ecp2@xxxxxxxx
Prashant Hedao, Co-Chair, International Networks Committee
Email:
ecp10@xxxxxxxx
IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT! IMPORTANT!
FAILURE TO FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS WILL RESULT IN YOUR APPLICATION
BEING
LOST!
=====TO SUBMIT, DELETE EVERYTHING ABOVE THIS LINE====
[SOCIETY FOR CONSERVATION GIS]
[SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION FORM
2000]
*Today's Date?:
[*R]==SPECIFIC REQUEST (you can provide details
below in section J) :
*Airfare from your nearest Intl Airport to Los Angeles
CA in August
[RFARETOT1]?:
*Airfare amount requested [RFARE]?:
*Airfare
amount YOU can pay yourself [RLOCAL]?:
*Do you need an SCGIS Conference
Registration Fee waiver [RSCGIS]?:
*Do you need an ESRI User Conference
Registration Fee waiver [RESRI]?:
*Do you need ESRI GIS Training
[RETRAIN]?:
*Would you like help with Accommodations
[RHOUSING]?:
*Accommodation/Local Transport costs that YOU can pay
[RACCOTRANSP]?:
*Will you share a private home? [RHOME]?:
*Will you share
a motel room? [RSHARE]?:
*Will you Camp? [RCAMP]?:
*Do you need to
borrow camping equipment? [RCLOAN]?:
*Comments: Any special notes or comments? [RNOTES]?:
[*O]==ORGANIZATION data
*Organization Name [ORGNAME]?:
*Street/Fedex
address [OADDR1]?:
*Street Address line 2 [OADDR2]?:
*Mailing Address
[OADDRM]?:
*City [OCITY]?:
*State ( 2-letter code) [OSTATE]?:
*Zip or
Postal code [OZIP]?:
*Province (if any) [OPROV]?:
*Country (i.e. USA)
[OCNTRY]?:
*Work phone with area code [OTEL]?:
*Work fax with area code
[OFAX]?:
*Main email [OEMAIL]?:
*Org Web site URL if any [OWEB]?:
*Org
subject keywords [OKEYWORD]?:
*Your Organization's last year total budget
[OBUD]?:
*Your last year's total GIS program budget [OGISBUD]?:
[*C]==REQUIRED APPLICANT/STUDENT data
*Your full name and any initials
[CFIRST]?:
*Your honorific (i.e. Dr., Mr. Ms.) [CPREFIX]?:
*Your prefered
first name or informal name [CSHORT]?:
*Your direct address if
different [CADDR]?:
*Your direct phone number [CTEL]?:
*Your
direct email address [CEMAIL]?:
*Your job title or role
[CROLE]?:
*Your own interest keywords from appendix 1 [CKEYWORD]?:
*Alternate contact full name and any initials [CLAST]?:
*Alternate
honorific (i.e. Dr., Mr. Ms.) [CPREFIX]?:
*Alternate contact direct phone
number [CTEL]?:
*Alternate contact direct email address
[CEMAIL]?:
*Alternate contact job title or role [CROLE]?:
[*M]==MENTOR/SHIP data:
*Status: Mentor
*Mentor Organization Name
[MORGNAME]?:
*FedEx address [MOADDR1]?:
*Shipping Address line 2
[MOADDR2]?:
*City [MOCITY]?:
*State ( 2-letter code) [MOSTATE]?:
*Zip
or Postcode [MOZIP]?:
*Province (if any) [MOPROV]?:
*Country (i.e. USA)
[MOCNTRY]?:
[*G]==GIS EXPERTISE LEVEL / COURSES:
*Briefly describe your GIS
capability/expertise [GGISCAP]?:
*What GIS software (if any) have you used
[GGISSOFT]?:
*What GIS courses you are interested in
[GGISCOURSE]?:
*Please explain your programming experience (if any)
[GPROG]?:
[*J]==REQUIRED JUSTIFICATION (CONFIDENTIAL)? Essay justification of why
you
require a grant [OWHY]?:)?
[*P]==REQUIRED PAPER that you will present at the conference:
*TITLE:
Title of the paper you will present [PTITLE]?:
*ABSTRACT: Short abstract/summary of the paper you will
present
[PABSTRACT]?:
[*S]==REQUIRED BACKGROUND data for all requests:
*HISTORY: Please describe the history of your local work in conservation
and
GIS [SHIST]?:
*SUPPORTERS: Please describe how your work is supported by your
local
community [SCOMM]?:
*INTERNATIONAL: Please describe how your work is supported by
any
international groups who work with you [SINTL]?:
*TEACHING: Please describe the local non-profit and non-government
groups
who you support, and how you help them to learn about conservation and
GIS
[SLOCAL]?:
*UNIQUE: Please describe what is the most unique and the most
challenging
about the conservation/GIS work that you do [SUNIQ]?:
*PLAN: Please provide a 1-year plan for how you hope to apply the skills
you
will learn under the SCGIS scholarship, and what you expect to be able
to
achieve in your conservation GIS work over the next year [SPLAN]?:
*SUMMARY: Please provide an executive summary of your request, and
include
any special statements about your work that you would like to make at
this
time: [SEXEC]?:
[*E]===END-this is the end of the SCGIS application.
