Diary
Please email onegeology@bgs.ac.uk with details of events (meetings, conferences, or exhibitions) that could be included on this page.
Upcoming events
To be confirmed.
Previous events
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa — Colloquium of African Geology
Tim Duffy is presenting OneGeology Web Services in Africa: progress and enhancements
8-14 January 2013
New Zealand, Avalon — the 8th Technical Working Group meeting will be held at GNS Science.
More information on the TWG meetings page.
15 August 2012
Australia, Brisbane — 34th International Geological Congress (IGC).
Including a Sustainable Mining Training Workshop
There will be a GeoHost scheme that will provide financial support to a limited number of young earth scientists and scientists who live and work or study in Africa to participate in the 34th IGC.
5 - 10 August 2012
Australia, Brisbane — OneGeology Operational Management Group .
5 August 2012, 10:00 - 17:30
USA, Lakewood — USGIN/OneGeology Workshop .
The goal of this workshop is deploy new GeoSciML portrayal map services as part of a USGIN-sponsored OneGeology-United States collection of services.
3 - 4 May 2012
Australia, Sydney — The Digital Soil Mapping conference.
Onegeology has been invited to present at this conference and an abstract has been submitted.
Bruce Simons, GeoScience Victoria, will be presenting on behalf of OneGeology.
10 - 13 April 2012
France, Paris — UNESCO 40th anniversary of the International Geological Correlation Programme (IGCP40).
Will take place at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Onegeology will feature.
22 February 2012
USA, San Francisco — AGU, GeoSciML V3 will be released and 19 000 delegates expected.
Steve Richard attending
5 - 9 December 2011
USA, Minneapolis — 2011 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
Lee Allison, FR attending
9 - 12 October 2011
OneGeology participants may be interested in one of the short courses to be run at this conference:
Short Course 515: Setting up a GeoSciML data service to publish your geological map data
(Registration opens in mid-June. We will post the registration link as soon as it becomes available).
Saturday, 8 October 2011, 08:00 - 17:00
Cost: $50; includes continental breakfast and lunch.
Organizers: Arizona Geological Survey (OneGeology participant and data provider),, AGI, and YES Network
This course is aimed at graduate students and early-career faculty who are doing geological mapping projects and are interested in online data publication. GeoSciML is a standards-based data format that provides a framework for application-neutral encoding of geoscience thematic data and related spatial data. Using GeoSciML, you will learn how to set up a GeoSciML data service so that you can publish your geological mapping data in a vendor-neutral format that will allow for data exchange and interoperability. We will implement a basic OGC Web Feature Service using GeoSciML with an example dataset and a software stack using free, open-source software (PostGIS, Geoserver). Participants are required to bring their own laptops that are equipped with a wireless connection.
Japan, Tokyo — The 4th meeting of the OneGeology Steering Group.
27 – 28 September 2011
Serbia, Belgrade — 17th Meeting of the Association of European Geological Societies (MAEGS-17) Geology in Digital Age
14 - 16 September 2011
Austria, Salzburg — 2011 International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG)
5 - 9 September 2011
Germany, Munich — German Geological Society meeting
Kristine Asch attending
1 - 9 September 2011
Colombia, Medellin — Latin American Congress
Jose Mendia attending
29 August - 2 September 2011
Australia, Perth — OneGeology in Keynote speech at the 7th symposium of the International Society on Digital Earth
Ian Jackson attending
23 - 25 August 2011
Scotland, Edinburgh — 11th international symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences. OneGeology will feature in the Plenary speeches.
10 - 16 July 2011
Scotland, Edinburgh — the next OneGeology Technical Working Group meeting
8 July 2011
Scotland, Edinburgh — the next OneGeology Operational Management Group meeting
1 July 2011
Scotland, Edinburgh — 2011 INSPIRE Conference
27 June - 1 July 2011
Namibia, Windhoek — The 26th Annual Conference of the Geoscience Information Consortium.
30 May - 4 June 2011
Senegal, Dakar — AEGOS Project meeting and final conference.
19 April 2011
Japan, Tokyo — the next OneGeology Steering Group meeting will be hosted by the Geological Survey of Japan
5 - 6 April 2011
Denver, Colorado, USA — National Science Foundation workshop in Denver, Colorado. "Geo-Data Informatics: Exploring the Life Cycle, Citation and Integration of Geo-Data" workshop (GeoData 2011)
2 - 4 February 2011
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.
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.
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.
Ghana, Accra — Technical working group meeting
8 October 2010
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.
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.
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
