1. The meeting was called to order at 18:00 MST by USNC Commission F Chair, Kenn Anderson. The agenda was approved.
2. The 2003 Commission F business meeting minutes from the URSI/APS meeting at Columbus, Ohio were circulated by email prior to this meeting. Approval of the minutes was moved, seconded and accepted.
3. A sign-in sheet and membership address update list were passed out by the secretary.
4. News from the USNC/URSI Business Meeting on January 4, 2004
1. Future Meetings – see attached agenda for meetings.
2. Abstracts and Student Papers for the URSI January 2005 meeting in Boulder will be due September 17, 2004.
3. New Officers will be elected at the January 2005 meeting. They will assume their positions on December 31, 2005.
4. Kenn Anderson said that suggestions for dates for the NARSM meeting in Ottawa, Canada were requested from the Commissions at the USNC/URSI business meeting. It was stipulated that the meeting should be held sometime in July, 2007. It was suggested that the distance between the APS and the URSI meetings be maximized. Since the APS meeting in being held on June 10-15, a meeting date of the last week in July would maximize the distance. More discussed continued, but no motion for a specific time was made.
5. Topics for Special Sessions for the Washington, DC APS/URSI meeting in 2005 and the Boulder, CO USNC/URSI meeting in 2005 are needed by March 1, 2004.
6. The next URSI General Assembly will take place in Delhi, India on October 23-29, 2005. The USNC is asking for nominations for the van der Pol, Dellinger, Appleton, Booker, and the Koga awards to be presented at the General Assembly.
7. Ken Anderson mentioned that attendance at Commission F business meeting held at APS/URSI symposia was very low. He asked the membership if they wanted to continue these business meeting. After a discussion it was decided to keep having them to increase our total meeting attendance. A motion to this effect was made, seconded and approved.
8. Business meeting to be held at the IGARSS2004 in Alaska and IGARSS2006 in Denver will be the responsibility of Roger Lang.
9. Twenty seven (27) travel stipends of $599 each have been awarded to students who are first author on a paper that is presented at this meeting. A proposal for $25K has been submitted to NSF to cover these awards.
10. The student paper contest was managed by Steve Reising of Commission F. Contestants submitted a full paper which was sent to 4 reviewers. From this review process, 3 finalists were selected to present their papers at the plenary session. After the talks the Commission Chairs decided the winner. Kenn Anderson noted that there were no Commission F submissions this year. He urged Commission F faculty members to have their students submitted papers. Presentation by the winners at the plenary session is a very prestigious event for both the student and his advisor.
11. The Chair called for nominations for Member at Large. Two members were nominated. They were: Daniel Dockery and Valery Zavorotny. Their nominations were seconded and approved unanimously.
12. Nominations for society representative were made. They were: Steve Reising for IEEE-GRS, Ed Westwater for AGU and Dick Doviak for AMS. Nominations were seconded and approved unanimously.
13. Ken Anderson urged members to think seriously of organizing joint sessions, particularly between our commission and B and C. He said there is much overlap between their interests and ours which could generate some interesting sessions.
5. Rich Paulus, our membership chairman, presented the credentials of the four nominees. After some discussion, it was decided by the membership to accept all the nominees into Commission F. The new members are: V. Chandrasekar, Peter Gerstoft, Tracy Haack and Alexander Voronovich.
6. Kenn Anderson pointed out that there were 197 members on our mailing list but only 150 had email addresses. There ensued a discussion concerning the reasons that these 47 members had no email addresses. In the subsequent discussion, it was suggested that many of these members might be retired or might have lost interest in Commission F. Roger Lang proposed that he write to these members and ask them if they still wished to retain their membership. If their answer is ‘yes’, they should send in their email address on the enclosed postcard or state that they had no email address. The motion was seconded and approved.
7. Kenn Anderson moved to adjourn the meeting at 19:15 MST. The motion was seconded and approved.

Welcome

Approval of 2003 Minutes (Columbus,OH)

Pass around Membership List for Update

Pass around Sign in List

USNC-URSI Business Meeting, 4 January 2004

Future Meetings

Student "travel" stipend ($599 for 1^st author students from US universities)

Suggestions for additional funding sources

2004 Student Paper Contest (Steve Reising)

2005 General Assembly, New Delhi, India: 23-29 October (Visa required)

Nominees for Awards

Travel stipend for delegates

Action Items

1. ’05 NRSM & IEEE APS/URSI: Need special session titles, names
2. Nominees for Member-at-Large: Now
3. Nominees for Society Reps (AAS/AGU/AMS/IEEE APS/GRS/MTT): Now
4. Reinvigorate National Meeting

Comm F Business

New Business

*Wednesday through Saturday

Abstracts & Student Paper submissions due by 17 September 2004

Election of new officers

** IEEE AP-S meeting separately from URSI

Need special sessions for 2005 by March 1, 2004

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

2004 IGARSS, Anchorage, AK, 20-24 Sept, (Roger Lang)

2006 IGARSS, Denver, CO, 31 July-4 Aug, (Roger Lang)