CaGIS+UCGIS Symposium

Georg Gartner, International Cartographic Association (ICA) President, will open the plenary session with information about the ICA, including its upcoming 2025 conference in Vancouver, Canada.

Dr. Virginia Burkett, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) will be the plenary speaker in this session. Dr. Burkett is the Chief Scientist for Climate and Land Use Change, International Programs.  She has published roughly 100 journal articles, book chapters and reports that focus on wetlands, global change, and low-lying coastal systems. Burkett was a Lead Author of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third, Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports and the IPCC Technical Paper on Water. She was also a Lead Author of the First, Second and Third US National Climate Assessments.