The deadline for paper submissions to the Environmental Information Management (EIM) 2011 Conference has been extended.  The <b>new deadline for submissions is June 5, 2011</b>.  Anyone who has already submitted may also submit a revised submission by the new extended deadline, and that revised submission will be used during peer-review.  The deadline for posters and BoF sessions did not change (July 31, 2011).<div>
<br></div><div>In addition, note that the <b>early registration deadline is June 15, 2011</b> and that substantial savings can be had by registering for the conference by that date.  </div><meta charset="utf-8"><div><br></div>
<div>Details on both of these changes are on the conference web site:</div><div>   <a href="https://eim.ecoinformatics.org/eim2011">https://eim.ecoinformatics.org/eim2011</a></div><div><br></div><div>Contact the conference co-chairs with any questions.  </div>
<div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div><br></div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Matthew Jones (NCEAS, University of California Santa Barbara) (<a href="mailto:jones@nceas.ucsb.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">jones@nceas.ucsb.edu</a>)</span></div>
<div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Corinna Gries (NTL LTER, University of Wisconsin) (<a href="mailto:cgries@wisc.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">cgries@wisc.edu</a>)</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(222, 134, 76); color: rgb(255, 246, 240); ">EIM</span> 2011 Co-chairs</span></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><meta charset="utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><blockquote>Call for Papers: Environmental Information Management (<span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(222, 134, 76); color: rgb(255, 246, 240); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">EIM</span>) 2011 <span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(222, 134, 76); color: rgb(255, 246, 240); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Conference</span><br>
Theme: Data Interoperability for Synthesis Science<br>Dates: September 28-29, 2011 <br>Location: Santa Barbara, CA<br>Venue: Fess Parker Doubletree Resort <br>Web site: <a href="http://eim.ecoinformatics.org/eim2011" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">http://<span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(222, 134, 76); color: rgb(255, 246, 240); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">eim</span>.ecoinformatics.org/eim2011</a><br>
Call for Papers, Posters, and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(222, 134, 76); color: rgb(255, 246, 240); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">EIM</span> provides a forum for information managers, scientists, and informatics researchers to present and discuss advances in environmental information management, analysis, and modeling. <span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(222, 134, 76); color: rgb(255, 246, 240); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">EIM</span> 2011 invites original, short papers (6 pages) on environmental information management.  Papers that are accepted after peer-review will be presented as 15 minute oral presentations. The <span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(222, 134, 76); color: rgb(255, 246, 240); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">conference</span> will also include a Poster session and Birds of a Feather sessions.  Submissions focusing on the <span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(222, 134, 76); color: rgb(255, 246, 240); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">conference</span> theme ‘Data Interoperability for Synthesis Science' are encouraged, and additional topics for submissions include (but are not limited to):<br>
* Sensor networking and deployment<br>* Data acquisition, field-computing devices<br>* Quality control processing<br>* Data archival for long-term persistence<br>* Metadata generation, storage, and management<br>* Metadata-driven data analysis services<br>
* Data and metadata semantics, controlled vocabularies, and ontologies<br>* Analysis and modeling frameworks<br>* Data and metadata versioning and lineage<br>* Visualization tools<br>* Geospatial tools, applications, and standards<br>
* Sociology of collaboration and data sharing<br>Paper submissions have been extended to June 5, 2011, and details are provided in the Call for Papers and Posters:<br>    <a href="https://eim.ecoinformatics.org/eim2011/eim-cfp" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">https://<span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(222, 134, 76); color: rgb(255, 246, 240); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">eim</span>.ecoinformatics.org/eim2011/<span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(222, 134, 76); color: rgb(255, 246, 240); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">eim</span>-cfp</a><br>
Poster abstracts are due July 31, 2011.<br>In addition, we are also calling for proposals for Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions to hold community-discussions, technology demonstrations, coding sessions, and other activities.  BoF session proposals are due July 31, 2011, and details are provided in the call:<br>
    <a href="https://eim.ecoinformatics.org/eim2011/eim-cfbof" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">https://<span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(222, 134, 76); color: rgb(255, 246, 240); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">eim</span>.ecoinformatics.org/eim2011/<span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(222, 134, 76); color: rgb(255, 246, 240); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">eim</span>-cfbof</a><br>
For more information, please contact:<br>Matthew Jones (NCEAS, University of California Santa Barbara) (<a href="mailto:jones@nceas.ucsb.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">jones@nceas.ucsb.edu</a>)<br>
Corinna Gries (NTL LTER, University of Wisconsin) (<a href="mailto:cgries@wisc.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 65, 112); ">cgries@wisc.edu</a>)<br><span class="il" style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(222, 134, 76); color: rgb(255, 246, 240); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">EIM</span> 2011 Co-chairs</blockquote>
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