Minutes of the USNC/URSI Commission F Business Meeting

National Radio Science Meeting

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

January 6, 2005

 

  1. The meeting was called to order at 1700 MST by the USNC Commission F Chair, Kenn Anderson
  2. The 2004 Commission F business meeting minutes were circulated to members by email prior to the 2005 business meeting. Approval of these minutes was moved, seconded and accepted.
  3. Attendance sheets and address list for updates were passed out to attendees.
  4. Future USNC/URSI Radio Science meeting as well as IEEE AP/URSI and IGARSS meeting are listed in the meeting agenda.
  5. The following question was discussed: Should the proposed IEEE APS/URSI meeting in Toronto be a North American Radio Science meeting? Ross Stone felt it should not be a North American Radio Science meeting since then there will be no January 2009 USNC/URSI Radio Science meeting. Gary Brown said for financial reasons Toronto should be a regular IEEE AP/URSI meeting. A motion was made that Toronto 2009 be a regular IEEE AP/URSI meeting. The motion passed.
  6. Steve Reising announced that NSF has awarded USNC $30,000 to give students at US universities travel awards. Students must be the first author on the paper and must be a student at the time they submit the abstract. There are approximately 68 students that qualify for the award this year.
  7. The student paper contest is being managed by Steve Reising. Steve said there were a total of 15 papers received - three of these from Commission F. Steve described the review process and mentioned that the student can send the paper to any journal once it has been submitted to the contest. Ross Stone said he would look into having the top three papers published in Radio Science without under going an additional review process.
  8. The URSI General Assembly which will be to be held in Delhi, India in October, 2005 was discussed. Ross Stone described the convention center and the hotels close by. He recommended the Meridian Hotel. He said a visa will be needed. A visa service is the simplest way to proceed. He said travelers to India need to have vaccinations which should be taken 6 weeks before the conference. Delegates to the meeting are the commission chairs while others are called participants. The number of travel stipends for participants of each commission will depend on the activity level of the commission. Finally, the following question was debated: Should the US make a bid to have the URSI General Assembly (GA) in Boulder, CO in 2008? A motion was made to hold the URSI GA in Boulder, CO in 2008. It passed.
  9. Kenn asked that members submit ideas for the Plenary Session at the USNC/URSU Radio Science meeting in 2006 by the end of February, 2005. This information is needed for the meeting’s Call for Papers which will go out in April, 2005.
  10. Kenn mentioned that several members had discussed the possibility of having an occasional January Radio Science meeting on either the east or the west coast. It was felt that these sites would be too expensive. The majority of members present expressed an interest in keeping the meeting in Boulder.
  11. Jonathan Gehman was elected a new member.
  12. It was announced that after the General Assembly in New Delhi, Roger Lang, the present Commission F Secretary, would become Commission F Chair.  Albin Gasiewski would remain in the position of Vice Chair. Kenn Anderson called for nominations from the floor for the position of Commission F Secretary. Steve Reising was nominated and received an unanimous vote. Michael Newkirk was nominated for the position of Membership Chair and received a unanimous vote for that position. There were no nominations for USNC Secretary, Webmaster or Database Coordinator.

 

 

Attendance List

 

W. Ross Stone(M)

 

Thomas VanZanett (M)

David Kunkee (M)

 

Michael Newkirk (M)

Dan Dockery(M)

 

Gary Brown (M)

Alex Voronovich (M)

 

Ed R. Westwater (M)

Edward J. Walsh (M)

 

Tihomir Hristov (G)

Valerian Tatarskii (M)

 

Rich Lataitis (M)

Tracy Haack (M)

 

Valery Zavorotny (M)

Domenico Cimini (G)

 

Steve Reising (M)

Eve R. Khopf (G)

 

Sharmila Padmanabhan (G)

L. Ted Rogers (M)

 

Al Gasiewski (M)

V. Chandrasekar (M)

 

Chalmers M. Butler (M)

Kamal Sarabandi (M)

 

Roger H. Lang (M)

(M) signifies Member

(G) signifies Guest

 

 

USNC-URSI Commission F Business Meeting

6 January 2005, Boulder, CO

AGENDA

Welcome

Approval of 2004 Minutes (7 Jan 04, Boulder)

Pass around Membership List for Update

Pass around Sign in List

USNC-URSI Business Meeting, 4 January 2005

            Future Meetings

For future AP/URSI meetings: CD, digest, both; cost

’09 Toronto: Regular or NARSM in ’10 or ‘11

            Student “travel” stipend ($595 for 1st author students from US universities)

63 Students supported

2005 Student Paper Contest (Steve Reising)

15 Papers submitted (Awards $1000, $750, and $500 + Travel expenses)

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

                        Nominees for Awards

                        Travel stipend for delegates

Should the US make a GA proposal for 2008?

            Action Items

1)      ’06 NRSM: Need special session titles, names

2)      Suggestions for ’06 Plenary Sessions

3)      NRSM in Washington DC, 2008?

Comm F Business

Commission F representation at NARSM/NRSM

2005 Commission F Session Chairs

Election of new members (Rich Paulus/Kenn Anderson)

            Jonathan Z. Gehman

Election of Commission F:

Secretary

Membership Chair

Volunteers (Nomination) for USNC URSI positions

            USNC Secretary

Webmaster

Data Base Coordinator

Posting of Minutes on USNC-URSI Web page

Comm F Membership List (197 members, 151 with email)

            Letter to Members without email  (Roger Lang)

            Dropping people from Comm F membership (10 year noshow?)

Review of Commission F Business Meeting action items

            Email re special sessions (by mid Feb)

            GA participant nominees (by mid Jan)

            Plenary Session ideas (by end Jan)

New Business

 

Adjourn

 

 

IEEE AP/S-URSI, National, and North American Meetings

 

2005

NRSM

Boulder, CO

4-7 Jan

2005

AP/URSI

Washington, DC

5-9 July

2006

NRSM

Boulder, CO

Jan

2006

AP/URSI

Alburquerque, NM

June

2006

IGARSS

Denver, CO

July

2007

NARSM*

Ottawa, CA

7-10 July

2007

AP/URSI*

Honolulu, HI

July 31- 4 Aug

2008

AP/URSI

San Diego, CA

5-11 July

2008

IGARSS

Boston, MA

 

2008

URSI GA

TBD

 

2009

AP/URSI**

Charleston, SC

 

2009

AP/URSI***

Toronto, Canada

 

 

* IEEE AP-S meeting separately from URSI, No Boulder meeting

** Tentative

*** Tentative, NARSM in 2010/11 or regular AP/URSI

 

Commission F Representation at

North American and National Radio Science Meetings

 

 

Year

Type

Business Meeting Attendees

# Comm F Session

# Joint
Session

# Papers in
Comm F
Session

# Papers in
Joint
Session

Total
Comm F
Papers

1993

NRSM

 

3

 

27

 

27

1994

NRSM

44

5

 

42

 

42

1995

NRSM

29

7

3

63

5

68

1996

NRSM

26

6

3

58

5

63

1997

NARSM

21

6

1

58

7

65

1998

NRSM

34

5

1

41

6

47

1999

NRSM

49

5

2

40

19

59

2000

NRSM

28

5

2

48

17

65

2001

NRSM

35

5

4

49

32

81

2002

NRSM

24

5

2

32

18

50

2003

NARSM

13

5

3

54

35

89

2004

IGARSS

15

 

 

 

 

 

2004

NRSM

22

7

0

38

0

38

2004

APS/URSI

9

3

0

29

0

29

 

Triennium

83

20

5

153

53

206

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2005

NRSM

21 

6

1

39

10

49

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTE: Papers presented at IGARSS for Commission F are not available.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2005 NRSM, Boulder, CO

Session Co-Chairs:

 

L.T. Rogers

S.A.Fast

E. Marengo

K.Sarabandi

E. Westwater

E. Klopf

V. Chandrasekar

R. Lang

K. Anderson

G. Brown

S. Reising

A. Webster

K. St. Germain

M. Davis