Share your skills with the UGIC Community and win Fabulous Prizes! The 2009 Poster Gallery will be center stage at the Zermatt Resort conference center in Midway, and it's always enlightening to see the amazing work that professionals and students around the state are doing.

Prizes:

• Professional Category (top 3 places)
• Student Category (top 3 places, cash prizes)
  

Contact: Brandon Plewe, Department of Geography, Brigham Young University, 801-422-4161, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it with the subject as UGIC Posters.

Student Poster Contest 

The student competition will be awarded in two categories:

• Printed Map (including image maps)
• Research Presentation, including maps and explanatory text

Each category will be judged on the basis of visual quality and technical or scientific merit, although these factors may be weighted differently in each category (visual quality weighted higher for maps, technical/scientific merit weighted higher for research presentations).

The best entry in each category will be awarded $150, and two honorable mentions will be awarded $75. The judges may combine categories or reduce the number of prizes if fewer than three quality entries are received in any category.

Posters can be a product of the student's coursework, research area, or personal work, and must have been completed after June 2008. The work must have been done while a student (undergraduate or graduate) at an educational institution in Utah, but the submitter does not need to be a student nor live in Utah at the time of the conference. Posters produced as a result of paid employment (including both internships and academic research assistantships) are not eligible for the student competition, but may be entered into the professional competition. A student may submit only one poster.

Professional Poster Competitions 

Professional posters will be awarded in two categories:

• Printed Maps (including image maps)
• Professional or research presentation, including maps and explanatory text

Each category will be judged on the basis of visual quality and technical or scientific merit, although these factors may be weighted differently in each category (visual quality weighted higher for maps, technical/scientific merit weighted higher for presentations). Prizes and certificates will be awarded to a winner and an honorable mention in each category. The judges may combine categories or reduce the number of prizes if fewer than three quality entries are received in any category.

Posters can be the result of any level of professional or academic work, and must have been completed after June 2008. Each author may submit only one poster, and must work in Utah. Online services must be permanently available to the general public.

Registration and Submission Instructions

To be considered, participants must register posters by April 1, 2009 by sending an e-mail to the poster organizer: Brandon Plewe, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

The registration should include a title, name and institution of the author, and a 200-word abstract summarizing the purpose of the project, the software, techniques, and methods used, and the intended audience of the poster.

Maximum size for all posters is 60"x36" (either orientation). Posters can be generated using any software.

The printed posters may be brought to the conference or mailed to the poster organizer. In either case, the poster must be received by the end of the first day of the conference to be considered in the competition. Unregistered posters may also be brought to the conference for public display, but are not guaranteed display space.