The University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) is a non-profit organization of universities and other research institutions dedicated to advancing our understanding of geographic processes and spatial relationships through improved theory, methods, technology, and data.  UCGIS membership is open to all U.S. academic and research organizations that meet the specified membership criteria. Member institutions will have the opportunity to participate in reviewing and setting national research priorities in GIS and related specialties.  The UCGIS at the University of Utah includes participants from a wide range of academic departments, institutes and centers:  The Department of Geography supports research and education in fundamental geographic information science as well as substantive application domains in urban/economic systems and earth system science.  The Digitally Integrated Geographic Information Technologies (DIGIT) Laboratory provides research, service and educational support for theoretical and applied geographic information analysis, remote sensing and image processing, global positioning systems and related technologies.  The Department of Computer Science provides education and research in fundamental principles of computer science, computational techniques and application domains such as computer graphics and visualization.  The Center for High Performance Computing provides large scale computer resources to facilitate advances in the field of computational science at the University of Utah, including calculating the solutions of large-scale, two and three dimensional problems and graphical visualization of results.  Participating entities interested in geographic information science application domains include:    David Eccles School of Business (production and operations management)  Department of Chemical and Fuels Engineering (biochemical engineering, bioremediation)  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (water resource systems analysis, transportation modeling, congestion management)  Department of Economics (econometrics, decision theory)  Department of Family and Consumer Studies (community psychology, environment & behavior)  Department of Family and Preventive Medicine (epidemiology, environmental contamination, health services utilization)  Department of Mechanical Engineering (energy and waste management issues)  Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental and Health (environmental and occupational health, hazardous and toxic substances, risk communication)  Energy and Geosciences Institute (geoscience research applied to fossil fuel, mineral, geothermal, and environmental assessment)  On-campus participants also have close ties with the State of Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center, a state agency providing digital geographic data and support for state government GIS activities.