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Twenty-Sixth Annual
Conference on
Geographic Names
"Land and Sea"
September 30--October 4, 2003
Asilomar Conference Center
Pacific Grove, California
Co-Hosted by the
California Resources Agency
California Advisory Committee on Geographic Names
David Wagner, Chairman
Paul Veisze, Conference Chairman
Telephone: (916) 323-1667
E-mail:
pveisze@dfg.ca.gov
Sponsored by the
Council of
Geographic Names Authorities
T. Wayne Furr, Executive Secretary
Entrance to
Asilomar Conference Grounds
To view the agenda for each day of the conference click on
the day below
Program
Tuesday, September 30
12:00--6:00 PM Registration, Displays
1:30--4:30 PM Meeting of the
California Resources Agency Advisory Committee on Geographic Names
4:30--- PM Asilomar Ramble: A ranger-led tour to see Julia Morgan architecture and hear
about the history and ecology of Asilomar. Meeting place: Ocean side of deck at
Phoebe Hearst Hall
6:00 PM Dinner, Crocker Dining Hall
7:00--9:00 PM Welcome Reception
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Wednesday, October 1
7:30 AM
Breakfast, Crocker Dinning Hall;
Registration, Fred Farr Forum
8:30 AM
Opening of the Conference
Introductions by Paul Veisze, COGNA 2003,
Conference Chair
8:45 AM
COGNA Executive Committee Welcome
T. Wayne Furr, COGNA Executive Secretary
9:00 AM
Welcome Address
John Ellison, Agency Information Officer
California Resources Agency
9:15 AM
Keynote Address: Toponymy in the Digital Era
Don Cooke, Founder Geographic Data
Technology, Inc.
10:00 AM
Break
10:20 AM
Toponymic Session 1: Coastal and Undersea Names
& Issues
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Naming 11,000 Rocks: Naming Dilemma for Rocks and Islands
along California's Coast; Rick Hanks, California Coastal National
Monument Manager, Bureau of Land Management
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Forty Years Under the Sea: Trent C. Palmer, U.S.
Board on Geographic Names, Advisory Committee on Undersea Features
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Marine Research and Seafloor Names for the Monterey Bay
Region; H. Gary Greene, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories and Monterey
Bay Aquarium Research Institute
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Davidson Seamount; Randy Kochevar, Monterey Bay
Aquarium
12:00 PM
Lunch, Crocker Dinning Hall
1:30--2:45 PM Domestic Names
Committee of the U.S. Board on
Geographic Names
2:45--3:15 PM Break
3:15--4:45 PM Domestic Names
Committee, continued
6:00 PM
Dinner, Crocker Dining Hall
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Thursday, October 2
7:30 AM
Breakfast, Crocker Dinning Hall
8:30 AM
Federal/State Round Table
Issues regarding revision of Principles, Policies,
and Procedures: Domestic Geographic Names
10:00 AM
Break
10:30 AM
Federal/State Round Table, continued
12:00 PM
Lunch, Crocker Dinning Hall
1:30--2:20 PM Federal/State Round
Table, continued
2:20--2:40 PM Break
2:40 PM
Toponymic Session II
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The Curious History of Some California Town Names;
Robert C. Berlo
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California Rancho Maps; Stanley Stevens, Map
Librarian, University of California, Santa Cruz, retired
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In Defense of Wilderness Policy-The Unnamed Domestic Feature
as an Endangered Species; David Wolf, Colorado Board on Geographic
Names
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Politicizing a Prominent Peak; Lloyd Clark,
Arizona State Board on Geographic and Historic Names
4:00--5:15 PM
COGNA
Business Meeting
6:00--7:30 PM Banquet, Asilomar Seascape
Room; Guest Speaker:
Rudy Rosales, Esselen Nation, Indigenous Names of
the Monterey Bay Region
8:00--10:00 PM Monterey Bay Aquarium, Outer
Bay Wing
Guest Speaker: Albert E. Theberge, Advisory
Advisory Committee for Undersea Features of the
Board on Geographic Names; History of California
Undersea Names
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Friday, October 3
7:30 AM
Breakfast, Crocker Dining Hall
8:40--10:00 AM Toponymic Session III
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Gazetteer Functionality for Internet Mapping Applications;
Bjorn Svensson, ESRI
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Ontologies and the Semantic Web; Deborah McGuinness,
Stanford University
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Geospatial Reference Coordinates; Michael Voles,
National Image and Mapping Agency
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Digital Gazetteer R&D at the Alexandria Digital Library
Project; Jim Frew, University of California, Santa Barbara
10:00--10:20 AM Break
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Geospatial One Stop and Implications for the Geographic Names
Information System; Betsy Banas, USDA Forest Service
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State Role in Expanding and Maintaining the Geographic Names
Information System; Lewis McArthur, Oregon Geographic Names Board
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Steps Toward a Theory of Names; Grant Smith,
Department of English, Eastern Washington University
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CGNS Update-The Canadian Situation!; Barbara MacIntosh,
Geographical Names Board of Canada/Natural Resources Canada
12:00 PM
Lunch, Crocker Dining Hall
1:30--4:30 PM Toponymic Session IV
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What's in a Generic Name? Jane Messenger,
Executive Secretary, Missouri Board of Geographic Names
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The Strategy of Names in The National Map; Dwight
Hughes, U.S. Geological Survey
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Invitation to COGNA 2004 in Florida; T. Wayne Furr
for James Anderson, Florida Board on Geographic Names
3:00--3:30 PM Break
3:30--4:30 PM
COGNA
Business Meeting continued
6:00 PM
Dinner, Crocker Dining Hall
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Saturday, October 4
Toponymic Tour: Steinbeck Country
7:30 AM
Breakfast, Crocker Dining Hall
9:00 AM
Depart Asilomar
9:30 AM
Arrive National Steinbeck Center
12:30 PM Arrive
Chateau Julien Winery
Asilomar boxed lunch & wine tasting (5 wines and a
glass to keep)
2:00 PM
Arrive Mission San Carlos Borromeo (Carmel Mission)
3:30 PM
Arrive Point Lobos State Reserve
Nature Walk
5:00 PM
Depart Point Lobos
5:45 PM
Arrive Asilomar
6:00 PM
Dinner, Crocker Dining Hall
**Adjourn**
Click on the title below for a printable copy of the Final Report
2003 Conference Summary
California was honored to host the Council of Geographic Names Authorities
in the United States (COGNA) annual conference from Tuesday, September 30
through Saturday, October 4, at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific
Grove, Monterey County, California. The Conference Goal was to
effect a joining of names communities: those of land, the Domestic Names
Committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names (USBGN), and those
of sea, the Advisory Committee on Undersea Features of the USBGN Foreign
Names Committee. The State of California Executive Sponsor of the
Conference was the California Resources Agency (CRA). The CRA California
Advisory Committee on Geographic Names (CACGN), the State Names Authority of
California, and Cooperators comprised the 11-member Conference Organizing
Committee.
The
Monterey region was chosen for its joining of land and sea, for its important
role in State history, and for the close proximity of internationally-acclaimed
academic, marine research, and government institutions. The 2003 Program
(Appendix A) delivered 29 events, including official meetings of California
state and federal names authorities, toponymic sessions (technical papers), a
State – Federal Roundtable discussion on names policies and issues, the COGNA
Business Meeting, and local events and tours--all continuing a 26-year tradition
of this unique forum on place names and their pivotal role in today’s
information society.
The
Conference drew 90 attendees representing 13 states, 11 federal agencies, 2
foreign countries, and 5 exhibitors. These levels of participation, in a
climate of intense fiscal and political uncertainty, exemplified individual and
institutional commitments to geographic names work for the benefit of national
and international communities.
Conclusion
By many Participant accounts and comments emailed
to the Organizing Committee, the Council of Geographic Names Authorities 2003
Annual Conference was a complete success.
Geographic names engender a convergence of disciplines (language, history,
politics, technology and more) and with the central principle of local use,
evoke a transcendence of levels of government, from national to local. With
geographic names, we also evolve our awareness of place toward land conservation
actions and further, toward greater mutual understanding among the diverse
cultures of our nation and the world.
Paul
Veisze, Conference Chairman
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