1. GRSS Technical Committees and Chapter Meeting IGARSS 2007 Dr. Linda Bailey Hayden HAYDENL@MINDSPRING.COM

2. Membership 2006-2007 (Current) 47 Members 17 Full Members 30 Student Members 2007-2008 Goals 38 Members 18 Full Members 20 Student Members

3. Current Works Joint activities with the Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing Education and Research (CERSER) at ECSU Stronger support for North Carolina EXCom organization Application for a student chapter has been submitted

4. http://nia.ecsu.edu/ieee/

5. IEEE Eastern NC Section The local IEEE organization is the Eastern North Carolina Section (ENCS) http://www.ewh.isss.org/r3/enc/. This encompasses the greater Raleigh area, east to the coast. There is a subsection organization for the Lower Cape Fear area. In the ENCS we have approximately 3000 members. This makes us the 2 nd largest section in the South East United States. Active chapters in ENCS include:http://www.ewh.isss.org/r3/enc/ Computer Society Electromagnetic Compatibility Geoscience and Remote Sensing Engineering Management Society Engineering in Medicine and Biology Power Engineering/Industrial Applications Robotics and Automation Neural Networks Communications Signal Processing Information Technology Antennas/Propagation Components, Packaging (ACME) Manufacturing Technology Microwave Theory and Techniques

6. Dr. Phil Dustan Principle Investigator for the Coral Reef Monitoring Project "Remote Sensing of Coral Reefs and Change Detection"

7. Dr. Sonia C. Gallegos Naval Research Lab at Stennis Space Center “A Real Time Remote Sensing Algorithm for Spectral Attenuation Coefficient: Research and Development of Optical Models for the Yellow Sea.”

8. Dr. Sivaprasad Gogineni Deane Akers Distinguished Professor Radar systems and Microwave Engineer, University of Kansas “Microwave Remote Sensing and Applications"

9. Dr. Keith Raney John Hopkins’ Applied Physics Laboratory "Mapping Sea Bottom Topography with Radar Altimetry from Space"

10. Mr. Robert Winokur Senior Technical Advisor Earth Satellite Corporation "The Application of Satellite Imagery to Land Use, Land Change and Oceanography"

11. Dr. Janet Campbell Director of the Center for Excellence of Coastal Ocean Observing and Analysis “Ocean Color Remote Sensing"

12. Dr. Ken Jezek Byrd Polar Research Center and Department of Geological Sciences/The Ohio State University “Antarctica: Its Ice, Land, and Ocean as viewed by RADARSAT-1"

13. Dr. Robert Bindschadler Chief Scientist of the NASA's Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center "Understanding the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from Space: Beyond Dogsleds and Frozen Toes"

14. Dr. Geoffrey Fox Director of Community Grids Laboratory; Pervasive Technology Laboratories at Indiana University "Implementation of a Polar Science TeraGrid Gateway for SAR and other CReSIS Data Sets"

15. Dr. Robert McCoy Team Leader - Space Science Team Ocean Battlespace Sensing Department Office of Naval Research (ONR) "New Low-cost Microsatellite Initiatives at ONR"

16. Dr. Ali Omar Chemistry and Dynamics Branch of the Atmospheric Sciences Competency NASA Langley Research Center “Career Opportunities in Geosciences"

17. Upcoming Events October 2007 – Distinguished Lecture Series Dr. Derrick Lampkin Graduate Faculty, Department of Geosciences College of Earth Science, Pennsylvania State University “Greenland Field Test of a Prototype Autonomous Robotic Energy Balance System”

18. Upcoming Events March 2008 – Distinguished Lecture Series Dr. Tommy Coleman Research Professor Plant & Soil Sciences The Center for Hydrology, Soil Climatology, and Remote Sensing (HSCaRS) Alabama A&M University