1. Jeannette: She just finished a paper for the URISA Conference in Orlando on an application of the Deltatron Model in MIA. Two more papers are coming on this subject, first for Banff at the end of June (with Steen) and second sometime after that (with Keith). Sideline, the entire connection with the EPA is through a program called REVA. She is still working with Tommy Cathy and Keith on Version 3.0 to work through all the bugs. Besides fixing core dump problems the big change is that "Road Gravity" is now based on context, the dimension of the map and no longer is arbitrary. Hopefully this will get done soon as Elizabete Silva is ready to go with the model implementation in both Lisbon and Oporto. She is finished with her data preparation and has a great data set. Her results will be very interesting.
2. Noah: Has been working with the AMLs and has been toying with the idea of working with population, road density and city density. Wants to tie in the fractal dimension of cities to estimate population. Keith recommended a paper on the subject that Noah will pass on a copy to Helen. Also working on the transfer of AML files to Visual Basic as will be the wave of the future with Arc 8. He has been spending time also on the Santa Barbara Fund stuff, making movies (have already had a call for a piece). He is collaboration with someone at the County regarding urban growth for a Santa Barbara County Newsletter. Working on a fire research paper with Max Mortz who he will be meeting with next week.
3. Tim: Assisted in getting a press release out to various newspapers (NewsPress, Independent, Nexus, Goleta Valley Voice, Montecito Journal and Channel 3) regarding our project and results. This was done in conjunction with Earth Day. He also sent off the packet of information and documents requested by Steen R. for the summer student visits. We are hoping to have Steen here to organize those summer research efforts. In the meantime, he has been review two watershed models and their potential for linkage with UGM, as well as studying C programming.
4. Xiaohang: She has been learning spatial and Geostatistics. She is looking at error and uncertainty analysis with both. A bit of this came out in Jeannette’s URISA paper. This is something that Len Gaydos should be informed about and Keith recommended giving him a call. Looking at the connection between spatial and geostatistics which someday might work into a paper. Now she is ready to start looking with paired sets of landuse data (predicted and real) for two different sub areas. Jeannette will be facilitating with data acquisition. Banff: doing a poster and paper with Helen.
5. Helen: She has been continuing the process of identifying a general model language for the project and has been discussing possibilities with a group of Canadian researchers. She has been getting prepared for Banff as well. Inquiring into Web IMA – XML (Extensible Telemarket Language), Integrated Modeling Language (Maxwell and Curstanza’s group), EML (Ecological Macro Language), GML (Nicole) possible dissertation topic, WESTAVEIL, GEOVERIMEL(old virtual reality language), etc. She might do a workshop on these languages and findings at Banff.
6. Keith: The Dynamic Systems Model that was done under contract with Will Orr’s group should be ported here. Has it up and running here under Power Simm, which people are beginning to dislike. Will be hiring someone full time over the summer to work with Jim Nieman here on the Santa Barbara Project. This person will go to Atlanta to spend a week with Drew Jones who wrote the model, to implement the model in some other system, possibly Stella. He doesn’t feel there is much future potential with Will Orr’s U-Grow model and UGM as there is nothing there that we can’t do here, which is an interest of Dave Curtland (William’s boss). USGS money is finally on line and he has hired Melissa Kelly to do the photo interpretation on the seven Santa Barbara image layers using parcel maps, various overlays and the current landuse maps to create seven Anderson level 2 or 3 landuse coverages for the area. This will be a key component in Keith’s summer work on Urban dynamics. She will be moving into an office next to Jeannette next week and will be getting a new computer. He gave a paper at a symposium of the US Regional Association of the International Association of Landscape Ecology in Florida. The paper was on the geocomputational aspects of the project. Also he has been working on his latest book on GIS which is just about finished, will include web page, cd and 120 day AV license.

B. Steens Visit to UCSB:

Tim finally reached Steen on Thursday night. Things are bad in Los Alamos but as of that date his house had not been affected. He has been working with a LANL team to keep communication lines open for all those evacuated from the town. His visit to UCSB will just have to be on hold until things settle down out his way. He is hoping that sometime during the week of May 22^nd he can come out for a couple of days. Stay tuned.

• ALife: August in Portland. Noah is going to try and put together a paper and attend.
• GIScience: Savannah, Georgia (October) – Mike Goodchild would like us to present something. The abstract deadline is June 1^st.

1. A web page sub-committee meeting is needed (Jeannette, Noah and Tim) next week to discuss responsibilities, web page contents, and deadlines.
2. A summertime task list needs to be generated. This will be a sub-product of Steen’s visit this month.
3. Everyone is going to Banff and we all need to make flight and hotel reservations asap. Look at the web page for the conference and speak with Kathleen in the Geography Office.

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