Past Events

Title	Description	Location	Start Date
Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2010)	Start: 06/30/2010 - 00:00 End: 07/02/2010 - 23:59 Focuses on concepts, tools, and techniques for scientific and statistical database applications Description from email Event Location: Germany: Heidelberg Event Website(s): Web Site Contact Email: gertz@informatik.uni-heidelberg.de	Germany: Heidelberg	Jun 30 2010
COM.Geo 2010	Start: 06/21/2010 - 00:00 End: 06/23/2010 - 23:59 Conference and Exhibition on Computing for Geospatial Research and Application From web site: Event Location: USA: Washington, DC Event Website(s): COM.Geo 2010 Website Event Website(s): COM.Geo 2010 Program Event Website(s): COM.Geo Contact page	USA: Washington, DC	Jun 21 2010
The 3rd International Provenance and Annotation Workshop	Start: 06/15/2010 - 00:00 End: 06/16/2010 - 23:59 Interdisciplinary workshop to investigate the issues of data provenance, process documentation, data derivation, and data annotation [From the web site] Event Location: USA: Troy, New York Event Website(s): Workshop web site Event Website(s): Call for papers Contact Phone: 518 276 4404 Contact Email: my_three_initials@cs.rpi.edu	USA: Troy, New York	Jun 15 2010
WANDS 2010	Start: 06/06/2010 - 07:00 End: 06/06/2010 - 18:00 1st International Workshop on Workflow Approaches for New Data-Centric Science (held in conjunction with SIGMOD conference) From website: The workshop aims at clarifying the role of workflow technology in accelerating science, by providing effective means to automate data management tasks on a large scale. Thus, it sits at the intersection between process management for scientific applications, and data management. Event Location: USA: Indianapolis, Indiana Event Website(s): WANDS 2010 website Event Website(s): 2010 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference website Contact Email: wands10@easychair.org	USA: Indianapolis, Indiana	Jun 06 2010
ASLO-NABS 2010 Summer Meeting	Start: 06/06/2010 - 00:00 End: 06/11/2010 - 23:59 Aquatic Sciences: Global Changes from the Center to the Edge Sponsored by the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography and the North American Benthological Society. From the web site: Event Location: USA: Santa Fe, New Mexico Event Website(s): Event Web Site Contact Phone: 800-929-ASLO (US/Canada), 254-399-9635 Contact Email: business@aslo.org	USA: Santa Fe, New Mexico	Jun 06 2010
ESWC 2010 Workshop on Ontology Repositories and Editors for the Semantic Web	Start: 05/30/2010 - 00:00 End: 05/31/2010 - 23:59 *From the workshop website:* (Note: Workshop: May 30 or 31, 2010) Event Location: Greece: Heraklion Event Website(s): ORES 2010 Event Website(s): Call for papers Contact Phone: +44 (0) 1908 655526 Contact Email: M.Daquin@open.ac.uk	Greece: Heraklion	May 30 2010
7th Extended Semantic Web Conference	Start: 05/30/2010 - 00:00 End: 06/03/2010 - 23:59 *From the workshop website:* The mission of the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2010) is to bring together researchers and practioners dealing with different aspects of semantics on the Web. ESWC2010 builds on the success of the former European Semantic Web Conference series, but seeks to extend its focus by engaging with other communities within and outside ICT, in which semantics can play an important role. At the same time, ESWC2010 is a truly international conference. Event Location: Greece: Heraklion Event Website(s): Conference web site Contact Phone: +43 (0) 1 236 4002 18 Contact Email: eswc2010_info@eswc2010.org	Greece: Heraklion	May 30 2010
Oceans' 10 IEEE Sydney Conference and Exhibition	Start: 05/24/2010 - 00:00 End: 05/27/2010 - 23:59 Showcasing Advances in Marine Science and Engineering Oceans IEEE conference ( In planning phase) Event Location: AUSTRALIA: Sydney Event Website(s): Conference Web Site	AUSTRALIA: Sydney	May 24 2010
Workshop on Sensor Web Enablement 2010	Start: 05/17/2010 - 00:00 End: 05/21/2010 - 23:59 Broad review of the SWE standards. This workshop on SWE technologies is being held as a part of The 2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems. Summary (From the web site) The purpose of this workshop is to take a broad review of the SWE standards, as well as exchange experiences, present results and concepts on how the standards might be utilized, extended and enhanced to develop robust, collaborative systems of sensor systems. Workshop topics include (but not limited to): Event Location: USA: Chicago, Illinois Event Website(s): Workshop site Event Website(s): (CTS 2010 Workshop) Call for Papers Contact Phone: (937) 431-2297 Contact Email: allenk@saic.com	USA: Chicago, Illinois	May 17 2010
The 2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems	Start: 05/17/2010 - 00:00 End: 05/21/2010 - 23:59 Address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art in collaborative enterprises, their modeling and simulation, design and use, and their impact Description The 2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems is being held in cooperation with ACM and IEEE, and covers a wide range of sensor-related topics. (from the web site)The Symposium is to address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art in collaborative enterprises, their modeling and simulation, design and use, and their impact. Participation is extended to researchers, designers, educators and interested parties in all CTS disciplines and specialties. Workshops Event Location: USA: Chicago, Illinois Event Website(s): Web Site Contact Email: William.McQuay@us.af.mil	USA: Chicago, Illinois	May 17 2010
Improving Observing Network Coordination: A Cyberinformatics Forum,	Start: 05/17/2010 - 00:00 End: 05/19/2010 - 23:59 Identifying opportunities for enhancing, linking, and collaborating across observing systems and projects. From Email: Event Location: USA: Boulder, CO Contact Email: guibert@ucar.edu	USA: Boulder, CO	May 17 2010
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010	Start: 05/02/2010 - 00:00 End: 05/07/2010 - 00:00 Covering all disciplines of the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences From EGU 2010 website: The EGU General Assembly 2010 will bring together geoscientists from all over the world into one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences. Especially for young scientists the EGU appeals to provide a forum to present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geosciences. Event Location: Austria: Vienna Event Website(s): EGU 2010 Event Website(s): Session ESSI9: Data, Metadata and Mark-Up languages Session Contact Phone: +44 (0)1235 778027 Contact Email: andrew.woolf@stfc.ac.uk	Austria: Vienna	May 02 2010
OOI Science Community Workshop	Start: 04/29/2010 - 00:00 End: 04/30/2010 - 14:00 Introduction of the Ocean Observing Initiative (OOI) design and capabilities to the science community From Workshop Description: The workshop will introduce ocean scientists, engineers, educators, and the broader science community to the full scope of the OOI network design and capabilities. Presentations and discussion will focus on descriptions of the OOI construction design, the multi-disciplinary sensors to be deployed and the timeline for construction, data availability, and data access. Event Location: USA: Tempe, Arizona Event Website(s): OOI website Event Website(s): Workshop Draft Agenda (PDF)	USA: Tempe, Arizona	Apr 29 2010
Q2O CTD/DO Domain Experts Meeting	Start: 04/20/2010 - 00:51 End: 04/22/2010 - 00:51 The QARTOD-to-OGC (Q2O) Project and the University of South Florida College of Marine Sciences are hosting a workshop scheduled for April 20-22, 2010 in St. Petersburg, FL. The Q2O Project is funded by the NOAA IOOS to build on the work done by the QARTOD-V Biogeochemical Parameters and the prior QARTOD CTD/DO groups by incorporating QA/QC parameters into the OGC Sensor Web Enablement framework. Event Location: St. Petersburg, FL. Contact Phone: 228-688-3841 Contact Email: Julie.Bosch@noaa.gov	St. Petersburg, FL.	Apr 20 2010
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit	Start: 04/09/2010 - 00:00 End: 04/10/2010 - 23:59 Bringing together leaders in data centers, laboratories, and libraries to share ideas for managing, preserving, and sharing large-scale research data repositories From the web site Event Location: USA: Phoenix, Arizona Event Website(s): Conference Web Site Event Website(s): American Society for Information Science and Technology Event Website(s): Coalition for Networked Information Event Website(s): Conference Twitter Feed Contact Phone: (301) 495-0900 Contact Email: meetings@asis.org	USA: Phoenix, Arizona	Apr 09 2010
IMDIS 2010	Start: 03/29/2010 - 00:00 End: 03/31/2010 - 23:59 International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems From the IMDIS 2010 website: The IMDIS cycle of conferences has the aim of providing an overview of the existing information systems to serve different users in ocean science. It also shows the progresses on development of efficient: infrastructures for managing large and diverse data sets, standards, interoperable information systems, services and tools for education. Event Location: France: Paris Event Website(s): IMDIS 2010 home page Contact Phone: +33-298224643 Contact Email: imdis2010@seadatanet.org	France: Paris	Mar 29 2010
2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting	Start: 02/22/2010 - 00:00 End: 02/26/2010 - 23:59 From Observation to Prediction in the 21st Century Stewardship of marine resources in the 21st Century demands the development of predictive tools based on models and field observations. The challenge of developing these tools forms the theme of the 2010 Ocean Sciences meeting. Event Location: USA: Portland, Oregon Event Website(s): OS 2010 site Event Website(s): Session Proposals Contact Phone: +1 202 462 6900 (N. America: 800-966-2481) Contact Email: os-help@agu.org	USA: Portland, Oregon	Feb 22 2010
European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks	Start: 02/17/2010 - 00:00 End: 02/19/2010 - 23:59 Seventh of a series of annual meetings focusing on the latest research in the area of wireless sensor networks From the web site: Event Location: Portugal: Coimbra Event Website(s): Conference Website Event Website(s): Wikipedia Entry for Annual Conference	Portugal: Coimbra	Feb 17 2010
2010 Winter ESIP Meeting	Start: 01/05/2010 - 00:00 End: 01/07/2010 - 15:00 Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Winter 2010 Meeting The theme of the 2010 Winter ESIP Federation Meeting is Environmental Decision Making. Luis Bermudez will be presenting MMI and the registry at the Winter ESIP Meeting. Event Location: USA: Washington, D.C. Event Website(s): ESIP meeting information Event Website(s): ESIP meeting agenda	USA: Washington, D.C.	Jan 05 2010
2009 AGU Fall Meeting	Start: 12/14/2009 - 00:00 End: 12/18/2009 - 17:00 Annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union From AGU website: The Fall Meeting is expected to draw a crowd of over 16,000 geophysicists from around the world. The Fall Meeting provides an opportunity for researchers, teachers, students, and consultants to present and review the latest issues affecting the Earth, the planets, and their environments in space. This meeting will cover topics in all areas of Earth and space sciences. Event Location: USA: San Francisco, California Event Website(s): AGU Meeting information Event Website(s): AGU Online Itinerary Planner Contact Phone: +1 202-777-7336 Contact Email: jward@agu.org	USA: San Francisco, California	Dec 14 2009

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