Sunday, August 4, 2002

3:00-6:00pm

Faculty Arrivals, Registration and Mixer-Holiday Inn Central, NW Washington DC

   

Monday, August 5, 2002

8:15-9:00am

Continental Breakfast

9:00-10:15am

Opening Session featuring Special Invited Guests from the White House Initiative on HBCU¹s/US Department of Education, US Congress, National Capital Planning Commission, Department of Interior/Office of Surface Mining, Department of Commerce/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, District of Columbia Government and Howard University

10:30am-12:30pm

Introduction to GIS/ESRI Training

12:30-1:30pm

Lunch(catered)

1:30-5:00pm

ESRI GIS Training

   

Tuesday, August 6

9:00am-5:00pm

ESRI GIS Training (lunch on your own)

   

Wednesday, August 7

9:00am-12:30pm

ESRI GIS Training

12:30-1:30pm

Lunch Presenter - Tony Fairfax, Demographer, Congressional Black Caucus Political, Education and Leadership Institute

1:30-5:00pm

GIS Workshops

 

Kyle Bohenstiehl, Office of Surface Mining

 

Introduction to Global Positioning System (GPS) and Remote Sensing, Dr. Lee DeCola, USGS

6:00-8:30pm

Reception- Howard University Continuing Education, Silver Spring, MD

 

Presenter- Dr. Chuck Croner, National Center for Health Statistics/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention A Grand Tour of GIS in Public Health²

   

Thursday, August 8

9:00-9:30am

Introductory Session

9:30am-3:00pm

GPS Field Exercise (Coordinated by Dr. Lee DeCola, USGS)

 

Alternative Workshops - (Minority Health) Omar Stephenson, Howard University (GIS in the Classroom) The Audubon Society of Maryland

1:00-4:00pm

GIS Workshops-Dr. Shobha Sriharan, Virginia State University, US Army Corps of Engineers (BLM or Private Sector firm)

4:00-5:00pm

Information Exchange

   

Friday, August 9

9:00am-4:30pm

GIS Workshops:

 

Emergency Management I-National Capital Planning Commission

 

Emergency Management New York - NOAA and ESRI

 

Lunch

 

GIS, Entrepreneurship and the Private Sector Panel (Invited: The Aerospace Corporation, KBM Group, Geo-Imaging, EDR/Sanborn)

 

GIS at Historically Black Colleges and Universities Panel (Dr. David Padgett, Dr. Robert Ford, Dr. Charles Glass or designee)

4:30-5:30

Faculty Evaluation, Curriculum/Information Exchange, and Group Photo

6:00

Rooftop Reception-NCPC (tentative)