Bray Hall, SUNY-ESF Campus, Syracuse, NY
Steve DeGloria, Tom Henderson, Paul Hopkins, Lindi Quackenbush, Marty Ragusky, Horace Shaw (ESF Continuing Education), Kerry Van Siclen, Paul Szemkow
· Minutes distributed – with no discussion.
· Steve DeGloria moved a motion to accept minutes, second by Marty Ragusky. Motion passed by acclamation.
· Planning for February meeting
- Initial speaker no longer available, suggestion of Art Lembo as possible speaker
- Menu selection/pricing for dinner
· May RS meeting
- Need to nail things down
· National vote on Rio Grande chapter
- Of interest primarily because it shows existence of chapters
· Region tax-exempt status
- Status revised because of concerns raised during internal audit
- E-mail from Jim Plasker to National Directors explaining situation
- SDD to forward e-mail to LJQ and provide summary for newsletter
- Regions will become incorporated under group status in Virginia
- Wording for by-law revisions to be provided by National lawyers
- Need to ensure officer contact information is correct – provide to Jesse Winch
- Rocky Mountain region to be used as test case, new guidelines will likely impact CNY region for tax year 2003.
· Report distributed showing 2001 income and expenditure and year end assets and liabilities
· Steve DeGloria moved a motion to accept report, second by Marty Ragusky. Motion passed by acclamation.
· Planned for 9 (or 10) May with ~50-100 attending
· TEH contact with National
- Avoid clashing with Annual conference (two weeks okay)
- National has no plans for a meeting discussing Emergency preparedness until PECORA
- NE GIS conference will be held in Massachusetts week after 15/16 May
· Possible involvement with NASA/RACNE?
- TEH discussion with Bob Brower from the Institute at Cayuga County formerly known as the RACNE
- Institute has some funds to support conference
- Perhaps more suited to invite participation of NASA and/or Institute in technical program rather than as co-sponsor
· Possible involvement with Nth Atlantic Region
- Audience/mailing list
- Technical/industry contacts
· Need to define audience
- Aim at local Remote Sensing community
- Not aimed at general audience
- RS for post-evaluation and preparedness
· TEH overview of RS usage in NYC post 9-11
- Need for rapid turnaround
- Need to emergency service personnel to understand RS capabilities
- Need to provide product in usable, concise format – meeting client needs
· Conference format
- Single day meeting in three sessions (or 1.5 days with three half-day sessions)
- General image information theme with three focus areas
- Emergency preparedness and response
- Industry development session – remote sensing applications
- Data Fusion
- Possible speakers
- Sean Ahearn (Hunter College, Dept of Geography)
- Bill Philpot (Cornell University)
- John Schott (RIT)
- Industry: Data providers e.g. Kodak, NYSTEC, those in telecommunications, …
- NASA
- Location
- Albany: Empire State Plaza, SUNY Albany, Holiday Inn Turf, Crown Plaza
- HBS to follow up with possible locations
- Cost
- Registration $50, Dinner $25
- Dinner speaker
- No plans for traditional technical presentation
- Possible invite new national president (SDD to follow up)
· Conference call: 8:30 AM on 18 January
- Follow up with possible speaker contacts
· Planning 2003 conference
- Start with first Council meeting after Annual meeting i.e. June/July
· Submissions for next issue due 11 January
· Need reports from National Director and President
· Bio’s received for both candidates
· PJS has request a goal statement and will follow up on that
· Location
- The Beeches, Rome NY
· Cost
- Members $25, students $15
· Menu – MRR to finalize
· Speaker
- Possibly ask Art Lembo
- SDD to follow up and MRR to finalize
· Letter to faculty/contacts needs to go out in February
- TEH to revise and pass on to PJS
- Send to faculty and e.g. student life offices
· Need to generate more student involvement
- LJQ pursuing contacts at institutes that do not have ASPRS members on the faculty
- E.g. St Lawrence, Mansfield, PA
· Changes
- Submission date changed to 15 March
- Awards 1st place: $300, 2nd place $200 (refer to minutes of 7 Sept 2001)
· SDD to finalize revision for inclusion in March/April newsletter, and vote at May annual meeting
· Need to consider names for Vice President and Secretary/Treasurer of Region
· Mike Courneen (Past President) serves as Chair of Nominations Committee
· LJQ will serve again as Sec/Treas if no other people are interested
· Ongoing discussion between PFH and MRR (and staff)
· Consider speaker names for May RS conference
· Consider candidates for region Vice-president and Secretary/Treasurer
· Begin preparing slate for Vice-president and Secretary/Treasurer election
· Follow up with Art Lembo regarding membership, interest in being a speaker at February meeting and interest in running for Vice-president
· Provide PJS with statement for newsletter
· Follow up with National President-Elect (Terry Keating) re speaking at region annual meeting in May
· Follow up with contact in North Atlantic region regarding May RS conference
· Provide PJS with any necessary revisions for “Dear Colleague” letter for SOY award
· Verify contact information for Region Council
· Provide PJS with financial statement for newsletter
· Prepare contact list for SOY mailing
· Follow up with The Beeches regarding final dinner options
· Provide PJS with statement for newsletter
Meeting adjourned 12:45 PM