Last email today – I promise.

If any of you are interested in participating in the map gallery at the upcoming TNGIC meeting, please read the email exchange below to see if you can convert one of the maps from your classes or research projects/posters into a stand-alone map.

Details for the map gallery are posted here. You will need to submit an electronic (PDF) copy of your map by September 6 if you want to be eligible for all of the 5 categories (including the student category). Otherwise you’ll only be eligible for the Viewer’s Choice award. I’d be happy to review your maps prior to submitting them. We’ll print your maps for you here in the Community Outreach and Engagement Lab before the conference.

On a final, petty note, it would mean a lot to me if a UT Geography or Sustainability student trounced the ETSU Geosciences students on their home turf.

From: "Mark E. Crow" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, August 31, 2018 at 8:51 AM
To: "Camponovo, Michael" <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: David Light <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: Map Gallery Information

Thanks Mike.

I agree that we should allow posters going forward, and probably should have let them in this time, but I can’t change the rules at this point.

The posters are intended to present a broad context of a research effort, and maps are not. I suspect that many of these students have created interesting map images for their posters that could be made into standalone maps. The broad context is less important. It just needs to effectively communicate something. They could simply add a title block and submit it.

If any of them would like to contact me directly, I’d be happy to help them get their maps ready to present. They could even send me their research poster and I could talk with them about how to get it into an acceptable map format for entry. They can email me or call my cell directly.

This conference is as much for students as it is for anyone else, so we really appreciate your involvement.

Mark Crow, PLS, GISP

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From: Camponovo, Michael [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2018 8:26 AM
To: Mark E. Crow <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: David Light <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Map Gallery Information

Mark – I’ll do what I can but I want to give you a little background too. Most of our students are putting together research posters for projects rather than stand-alone maps. I think this is due to two main reasons, we really push undergraduate research projects in conjunction with our faculty and staff and we don’t even teach a stand-alone cartography course anymore (my intro course is half cart and half GIS). If you’re willing to accept posters with maps on them, we have lots of those.

From: "Mark E. Crow" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 4:31 PM
To: "Camponovo, Michael" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Map Gallery Information

Mike,

I was pleased to find out from David Light that you were highly supportive of the upcoming Eastern Regional TNGIC Forum.

I am coordinating the map gallery this year, and I am trying to round up as many submissions as possible. Could you please encourage your students to enter the Map Gallery competition? Attached is the entry form. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,