Diary
Please email onegeology@bgs.ac.uk with details of events (meetings, conferences, or exhibitions) that could be included on this page.
Upcoming events
Denmark, Copenhagen — OneGeology-Europe awareness seminar
13 September 2010
The European Environment Agency (EEA) in cooperation with EuroGeoSurveys and the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) invites you to an awareness raising seminar on OneGeology-Europe.
Ghana, Accra — Technical working group meeting
Week beginning 4 October 2010 (tbc)
The next OneGeology global technical working group meeting will be held for half a day immediately after the two day AEGOS WP1/WP2 meeting in Accra, Ghana.
Further details to follow as they emerge.
France, Paris — OneGeology-Europe End of Project Workshop
27 October 2010
The workshop will be dedicated to presenting the project results to the consortium partners plus invited guests from the EC, user community and related projects.
China, Beijing — GEO
3 - 5 November 2010
OneGeology will be featured as part of the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) VII Plenary and GEO Ministerial Summit.
South Africa, Johannesburg — 23rd Colloquium of African Geology (CAG23)
8 - 14 January 2011
OneGeology, AEGOS and GIRAF are planning a combined 'super-workshop' for this conference. Further details will be available on the OneGeology and CAG23 websites in due course.
Previous events
Hawaii, Honolulu — 2010 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
25 - 30 July 2010
Attending: Ian Jackson is presenting a paper "OneGeology: A PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS" in the session "International Open Standards for Geosciences"
Australia, Canberra — The biannual Australian Earth Sciences Convention
4 - 8 July 2010
Attending: Geoscience Australia plan to attend, possibly have a OneGeology display/poster/presentation at the convention.
Poland, Krakow – INSPIRE conference
22 - 25 June 2010
Attending: Ian Jackson, Francois Robida, John Broome will be presenting a paper "OneGeology – a simple but successful trans-national SDI project. Why?"
Canada, Calgary — GeoCanada 2010
10 - 14 May 2010
Attending: Ian Jackson is giving an oral presentation "OneGeology – improving access to geoscience information on a global scale" in the session "GeoScience Information Management in a Spatially-Enabled Online World"
USA, New York — UN Group of Experts on Geographical Information Management
10 - 11 May 2010
Attending: Fraser Taylor is giving an oral presentation "Global Geographical Information Management: Some institutional and data sharing issues in integrating geospatial and statistical data" which will include OneGeology
Austria, Vienna — EGU – European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010
02 – 07 May 2010
OneGeology-Europe submitted 2 abstracts to the EGU conference in Vienna 2-7 May 2010. There was a ‘fruits of IYPE’ session in which OneGeology featured as a keynote speech.
The abstract ‘OneGeology–improving access to geoscience globally’ was accepted in EG5/EOS14 for the EGU General Assembly 2010.
- Luca Demicheli's key note talk
- YES Network Activities at the 2010 EGU General Assembly Meeting - OneGeology Initiative Roundtable Session
- The YES Network's OneGeology Initiative Roundtable Symposium review
- EGU conference information
We are also very pleased that the YES (Young Earth Scientist) Network are holding a roundtable discussion session focussing on OneGeology and the importance of mapping in geosciences and the applications and models that they can apply to decision making processes.
New Zealand, Wellington — OneGeology Steering Group meeting
15 - 16 April 2010
GSN
France, Paris — CGMW General Assembly
15 - 16 February 2010
Attending: Ian Jackson will present OneGeology
Italy, Ispra — GIGAS (GEOSS, INSPIRE, GMES, and SEIS) workshop
26 - 27 January 2010
OneGeology-Global and OneGeology-Europe people will be at the GIGAS (GEOSS, INSPIRE, GMES, and SEIS) workshop at European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy.
Opportunities for shaping a convergent evolution of GEOSS, INSPIRE and GMES
This GIGAS workshop, gives stakeholders of GEOSS, INSPIRE or GMES the opportunity to gain insight into and to influence the development of arrangements for interoperability within and between the initiatives. The aim is to achieve a common understanding of how to perform a concerted adoption of activities to influence and shape the evolution of GEOSS, INSPIRE, and GMES towards convergence. This will be discussed on both the strategic and technical levels.
USA, San Francisco — Fruits of IYPE – Implementing Long Term Activities (U12), IYPE wrap-up session at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Conference
14 - 18 December 2009
OneGeology has been invited to make a presentation. IYPE and CGMW will be participating to the exhibition
Africa, Kampala — AfricasGIS 2009
26 - 30 October 2009
Attending: Francis Bertrand (BRGM) will be presenting OneGeology
China, Beijing — Yes Congress 2009
25 - 28 October 2009
Chloe Wrighton (BGS) will present OneGeology at the first world Congress for Young Earth-Scientists
Italy, Genoa — Festival della Scienza
23 October - 1 November 2009
17:00 29 October 2009 - OneGeology-Europe Awareness Seminar
30 October 2009 is the formal European Union review of their €2.6M grant to OneGeology-Europe. The 1GE Operational Management Group will attend to provide progress information to the EU panel and answer their questions.
USA, Portland — Geological Society of America annual meeting
18 - 21 October 2009
Attending: Ian Jackson is presenting OneGeology as an invited keynote speaker and technical speaker
Turkey, Istanbul — 3rd GEO European Projects Workshop
8 - 9 October 2009
Attending: Ian Jackson is presenting OneGeology-Europe
Canada, Québec — The 5th OneGeology Technical Working Group meeting
25 September 2009 from 14:00 to 17:00 at the offices of the Geological Survey of Canada, in Québec hosted by GeoSciML consortium member Eric Boisvert.
China, Bejing — 4th IGMA Workshop (International Geological Map of Asia)
24 - 28 September 2009
Attending: Manuel Pubellier (CGMW) will present the progress of OneGeology. An open discussion about the participation in OneGeology of the different geological surveys attending the workshop is planned. All the surveys of the region are invited to 4th IGMA Workshop.
Canada, Québec — IUGS-CGI Interoperability Working Group meeting - GeoSciML v 3 development
21 - 25 September 2009
China, Bejing — Earth in Action meeting
9 - 12 September 2009
Attending: Fraser Taylor (International Steering Committee for Global Mapping (ISCGM) is giving a Keynote address
Italy, Rimini — VII Italian Forum of Earth Sciences (Geoitalia 2009)
9 - 11 September 2009
Marco Pantaloni & Carlo Cipolloni (ISPRA) will present 'Scientific and educational characters of the OneGeology project'
The Netherlands, Amsterdam — Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research data management and geographic information meeting
7 - 9 September 2009
Attending: Ian Jackson is presenting OneGeology
Japan, Okayama — Annual Meeting of Geological Society of Japan
5 September 2009
Attending: Koji Wakita is presenting OneGeology
India, Delhi — NDR9 (National Data Repository) global meeting
31 August - 3 September 2009
Attending: Ian Jackson is presenting OneGeology
