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INSTITUT ATLANTIQUEATLANTIC INSTITUTE |
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HISTORY The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE was founded in 1989 by Memorandum of Agreement by the Presidents of Laval University, Canada, the University of Maine, USA, and the University of New Brunswick, Canada. ORIGINAL PROSPECTUS The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE is an educational institute dedicated to the advancement of studies of the earth and the earth’s physical resources. Through exchange of ideas and formation, the Institute promotes the development of techniques and tools for the efficient handling of geospatial data. The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE identifies and explores problems and crucial policy issues associated with gathering, organizing, integrating, analyzing, and disseminating land-related information. The Institute is as much concerned with social and institutional issues as it is with technical and scientific issues. The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE brings together theory and practice by linking universities with government and private practice. It provides opportunities for learning, teaching, and research. The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE welcomes government officials, working practitioners, and university scholars to the pursuit of advanced land information studies. The ATLANTIC INSTITUTE is a federally tax exempt 501(c)3 charitable organization in the United States. It also maintains its charitable organization in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. RATIONALE FOR THE INSTITUTE The complexities of managing human and natural resources from the local to the global scale are increasing. A spatial component is implicit in many of our most urgent local, national, international and global problems. Problems requiring spatial information and spatial analysis capabilities in order to solve them include such diverse items as managing the infrastructures of utilities and transportation agencies, monitoring critical habitats and environmentally sensitive areas, implementing equitable tax assessments, inventorying mineral resources and agricultural crops, locating optimal sites for industrial, commercial, and residential development, tracking the dispersion of pollutants and infectious diseases, planning emergency response routes, keeping track of hazardous waste sites, and addressing almost any other problem where there is a need to relate some form of data to its geospatial location. The pervasiveness of the need for accurate and timely spatial information calls for the fostering of concerted research on the techniques and tools which address the need, the dissemination of research developments, and an expansion of the numbers of trained people in the this professional area. The activities of the ATLANTIC INSTITUTE include the following: • Conduct Research Workshops • Coordinate a Visiting Lectureship Program • Promote Multi-University Funded Research Projects • Promote Industry Participation in Research • Provide Advice and Assistance to Public Agencies, the Scientific Community, Private Industry and other Educational Organizations • Encourage Student and Faculty Exchanges óOther Activities which further the Purposes of the Institute |
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