1.0 The meeting was called to order at 1735 MST by the USNC Commission F Chair, Kenn Anderson. The agenda was approved.

2.0 The 2001 Commission F business meeting minutes were circulated to members by e-mail prior to the 2002 business meeting. Approval of these minutes was moved, seconded, and accepted.

2.1 Sign-in and membership address update lists were passed out by the secretary.

3.0 News from USNC/URSI Business Meeting

3.1 Tom Senior was elected an Honorary USNC/URSI member.

3.2 Kenn Anderson reported on USNC’s financial status. The USNC remains solvent.

3.3 It was reported at the USNC/URSI business meeting that the National Research Council would like to document cases in which foreign students are having difficulties completing their education because of new procedures put into place by the INS.

3.4 Al Gasiewski discussed the URSI student paper contest for the Columbus meeting at the USNC/URSI business meeting. Papers have been received, reviewed and four winners will be announced at the banquet tonight. Kenn announced that Al will be leaving the position of student paper organizer. Steve Reising was nominated for the position. He was approved unanimously.

3.5 It was reported that the USNC/URSI meeting at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO was financially successful. The registration fee for the January, 2004 URSI meeting will be increased to $250.

3.6 The commission members extended their thanks to Joel Johnson of Ohio State for acting as URSI liaison to the 2003 APS/URSI Symposium. He has been instrumental in getting members to organize URSI and Combined URSI/APS sessions. He also made sure space was available for URSI business meeting.

3.7.1 Kenn Anderson announced that laptops would not be provided at the January 2004 URSI meeting in Colorado. It was decided at the meeting that session chairs will be responsible for providing a PC loaded with a WIN2K operating system, Microsoft Office and Acrobat 5.0 for their session. Speakers must come with their talks on CD’s or in memory sticks. To be safe speakers are encouraged to have backup view graphs.

3.7.2 A proposal was made to give a session chair $250 dollars to rent a PC if he did not have one available. The proposal was seconded and received a unanimous vote. Kenn Anderson said it must be approved by the general council. He said he would present it to them next Thursday, June 24^th.

3.7.3 It was decided at the URSI USNC business meeting that only electronic abstracts would be accepted at the January, 2004 URSI meeting in Boulder, CO. Because of the number of no shows at the Columbus meeting, it was proposed and seconded that at least one author of each accepted paper must pay the full $250 registration fee before the paper will be listed in the final program. The motion was voted in unanimously. Abstracts for the meeting will be due September 19, 2003.

3.7.4 Two special sessions were proposed for the January 2004 meeting. They were:

4.0 Other Meetings

4.1 A motion to hold a USNC/URSI Commission F business meeting at the IGARSS2004 in Alaska was approved unanimously. Al Gasiewski was asked to be liaison.

4.2 Kenn Anderson announced that the next General Assembly will be held in New Delhi, India on Oct 23 to Oct 29, 2005.

4.3 Mark Sletten and Steve Reising where nominated for Member at Large. The members voted that both names should be passed forward. It was pointed out that at the present time Commission F has no Members at Large.

4.4 There was a long discussion concerning the low attendance of Commission F members at business meetings held during APS/URSI Symposia. Kenn Anderson offered the suggestion that business meetings be held only when the symposium meet jointly with the Canadian URSI members. The proposal was discussed but it was decided not to implement any change at this time.

5.0 New Business

5.1 Hans Lieb has been given the Harry Diamond Award.

5.2 Rosa M. Fitzgerald was nominated by Donald Barrick for membership in Commission F. A brief discussion of her qualifications followed. Her nomination was seconded and approved by the members present.

6.0 Old Business

6.1 Kenn Anderson pointed out that the commission had 197 members of which 151 of them had email. The Commission F secretary was directed to contact those members without email by ordinary mail and ask them if they wanted to remain members.

7.0 Other Business

7.1 Steve Reising was nominated to be the URSI society representative to IEEE-GRS. He accepted with a unanimous vote. The USNC URSI Exec Committee will decide who is selected for this position.

7.2 Members were asked to consider who might act as a representative to the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

7.3 Kenn Anderson moved to adjourn the meeting at 18:50 MST. The motion was seconded and approved.

Submitted by: Roger H Lang

Secretary, USNC/URSI Commission F

Welcome

Approval of Agenda

Approval of 2002 Minutes

Pass Around Membership List for Update

Pass Around Sign in List

News from the USNC-URSI Business Meeting

Meetings

Action Items

New Business

Old Business

Other Business

Adjourn

* IEEE AP-S meeting separately from URSI

Need special sessions for 2004 by November

2004 eliminates AP/S only, USNC-URSI only registration types

Do we want to continue with business meetings at joint AP/S-URSI meetings?

‘00 (Salt Lake City): 7 attendees

’01 (Boston) No minutes

’02 (San Antonio): 6 attendees