Minutes of the USUCGER Board Meeting held at Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA, in conjunction with the Annual ASCE/G-I Conference on Monday, June 11, 2001 _________________________________________ USUCGER Board Members Present: Paul Mayne Deborah Goodings Kyle Rollins Charles Shackelford Mehmet Tumay _________________________________________ Action Items --------------------------------------------------------------- Deborah Goodings: will take over website and email monitoring duties from Paul Mayne. --------------------------------------------------------------- Christine Laplante: will undertake draft of description of award and method of selecting recipient for 2 existing USUCGER Awards (Distinguished Service Award, and Research Investment Award), and coordinate next nomination and award process; and will keep aware of award and nomination possibilities from other groups (ASCE, GeoInstitute, etc.) and be responsible for initiating nominations from USUCGER. --------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Mayne: will provide the summary of USUCGER activities to Kyle Rollins in support of NSF proposal for USUCGER general workshop for 2003; will forward the proposal for the previous USUCGER workshop held in Newport, Rhode Island, that was drafted by Rich Finno; and will begin planning 2003 USUCGER workshop. --------------------------------------------------------------- Kyle Rollins: is responsible for drafting a letter of intent to submit a proposal in support of 2003 USUCGER workshop to be submitted to NSF by Oct. 1, 2001, deadline; will take the lead on the subsequent full proposal for the 2003 USUCGER workshop; and will solicit USUCGER dues from member and non-member institutions to be due by October 15, 2001. --------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Shackelford: will collaborate and assist Kyle with the 2003 USUCGER workshop proposal.