About this meeting

This two-day meeting was held May 11-12, 2006, at the USGS Headquarters located in Reston, Virginia. It included both oral and poster/demo sessions, selected to encourage and stimulate the exchange of current research results that bear on advancing the broad goals of Geoinformatics.

This meeting included oral sessions comprised of accepted abstracts, along with sessions dedicated to posters and technology demonstrations. Abstracts were invited on a broad range of topics such as advanced computation and visualization technologies, application of knowledge engineering for discovery and integration of complex data, innovative educational methods as they relate to the development of cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences.