The Virginia Metadata Academy Training Circuit is provided by the Virginia Geospatial Extension Program (http://www.cnr.vt.edu/gep). Funding for these workshops has been provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDChttp://www.fgdc.gov) through a 2007 Cooperative Agreement Program (CAP) Category 1 grant.

The following organizations have kindly helped organize and/or donated facilities for these workshops:

• Federal Geographic Data Committee
  
  
• James Madison University (Dept. of Integrated Science and Technology)
  
  
• Virginia Commonwealth University (Center for Environmental Studies)
  
  
• Virginia Tech (Hampton Roads Center)
  
  
• Virginia Tech (Center for the Environmental Applications of Remote Sensing)
  
  
• Virginia Cooperative Extension
  
  
• Danville Community College and the Regional Center for Applied Technology