CGU-GS

Annual General Meeting

Monday, 09 May 2005, 17:00-17:45

Room 251, Max Bell.

 

AGENDA

 

  1. Acceptance of the agenda
  2. Approval of minutes of the previous meeting
  3. Business arising
  4. Secretariat report and GS membership (M. Santos)
  5. Treasurer report (Rod)
  6. CGU-GS Student papers 2005 (S. Pagiatakis)
  7. Geodesy projects (upcoming)
    1. Involvement in GEOIDE  (S. Pagiatakis) 
    2. IPY  (C. Klatt)
    3. HPC High Performance Computer (R. Blais)
  8. 9th Canadian Geoid Workshop
  9. Future meetings, workshops, others
    1. GEOIDE annual meeting 2005
    2. GEOIDE workshops 2005
    3. IAG - Cairns Australia
    4. CGU – 2006 (Banff – joint with CSSS)
    5. CGU – 2007 (St. John’s - joint with CMOS)
  10. Other business
    1. Dominion Observatory’s 100th Anniversary (C. Klatt)
  11. Adjourn

 

 

 

CGU-GS

Annual General Meeting

Monday, 09 May 2005, 17:00-17:45

Room 251, Max Bell.

 

Minutes

 

List of Participants:

Spiros Pagiatakis – spiros@yorku.ca

M. Santos – msantos@unb.ca

Marc Veronneau – marcv@nrcan.gc.ca

Artu Ellmann – ellmann@unb.ca

Robert Kingdon – wtet@unb.ca

Azadeh Koozhare – a.koohzare@unb.ca

Calvin Klatt – cklatt@nrcan.gc.ca

Rod Blais – blais@ucalgary.ca

Herb Dragert – dragert@pgc.gsc.nrcan.gc.ca

 

Item 1: Acceptance of the Agenda

  1. Acceptance of the agenda
  2. Approval of minutes of the previous meeting
  3. Business arising
  4. Secretariat report and GS membership (M. Santos)
  5. Treasurer report (Rod)
  6. CGU-GS Student papers 2005 (S. Pagiatakis)
  7. Geodesy projects (upcoming)
    1. Involvement in GEOIDE  (S. Pagiatakis) 
    2. IPY  (C. Klatt)
    3. HPC High Performance Computer (R. Blais)
  1. 9th Canadian Geoid Workshop
  2. Future meetings, workshops, others
    1. GEOIDE annual meeting 2005
    2. GEOIDE workshops 2005
    3. IAG - Cairns Australia
    4. CGU – 2006 (Banff – joint with CSSS)
    5. CGU – 2007 (St. John’s - joint with CMOS)
  1. Other business
    1. Dominion Observatory’s 100th Anniversary (C. Klatt)
  1. Adjourn

 

C. Klatt moves seconded by M. Veronneau, all approve

 

Item 2: Approval of minutes of the previous meeting

Minor typos have been identified and fixed. Approval moved by C. Klatt, seconded by R. Blais and approved by all.

 

Item 3: Business arising

3.1. S. Pagiatakis informs that the Executive decided to attempt the promotion of short courses next year.

3.2. S. Pagiatakis and M. Santos will make informal contacts to attract new members.

3.3. GS website files were uploaded into the CGU Archives.

3.4. There has been an effort in the participation in the CGU Newsletter Elements. R. Blais is the link since he is involved in the reformulation of the Newsletter. ACTION: keep the effort towards having a presence in Elements.

 

Item 4: Secretariat report and GS membership (M. Santos)

4.1. M. Santos reports on the efforts to maintain the GS website updated.

4.2. Still concerning the website, R. Blais informs that CGU Executive is planning to reformulate the CGU Web site and that templates will be made available for the Geodesy Session so that its website reflects that of the mother site. There is also possibility that in the future all sites are in the same server.

4.3. Currently there are 25 members being 7 students. ACTION: motivate current members to keep paying their dues and to check  the appropriate field when renewing or registering into conferences, since part of the member dues goes to the Section he/she chooses.

4.4. S. Pagiatakis and M. Santos will go over CGU membership and look for members with related activity or interest in Geodesy and invite them to join the Session.

 

Item 5: Treasurer report (Rod)

An account was opened and there is $538.07 in the bank. Discussions of how to invest the money, a few ideas could be complement expenses of invited speakers to CGU or promote Workshops. 

 

Item 6: CGU-GS Student papers 2005 (S. Pagiatakis)

There are 6 student papers. Selection Committee is formed by C. Klatt (chair), N. Pavlis, H. Dragert, J. Huang and M. Veroneau. .

 

Item 7: Geodesy projects (upcoming)

a.       Involvement in GEOIDE (S. Pagiatakis, others)

S. Pagiatakis reinforced the need for collaboration among the geodesy-related projects.

b.      IPY  (C. Klatt)

b.1. C. Klatt reports the status of IPY.

b.2. Motion to have the geodesy IPY projects as formally supported by GS. C. Klatt moves seconded by H. Dragert. All approved. 

c.       HPC High Performance Computer

R. Blais describes c3, the consortium of HPC in Canada. Funding is finishing. There is a report written quoting various applications but no mention is made for Earth Science.

 

Item 8: 9th Canadian Geoid Workshop

Item 9: Future meetings, workshops, others

a.       GEOIDE Annual Scientific Meeting 2005, in Quebec City.

During this meeting the 5 geodesy-related projects will meet during a parallel Workshop marking their kick-off.

b.      GEOIDE workshops

c.       IAG - Cairns Australia

d.      CGU – 2006: to be held in Banff, joint with CSSS

e.       CGU – 2007: to be held in St. John’s, joint with CMOS

 

Item 10: Other business

a.       CNC-IUGG and report to NRC

S. Pagiatakis and M. Santos are requesting contribution from universities and Federal organizations.

b.      Dominion Observatory’s 100th Anniversary (C. Klatt)

C. Klatt mentions that the Dominion Observatory was founded in 1905, primarily to do to astronomical geodesy, after taking over gravity, geomagnetism. It was the primary institution in Canada, later taken over by EMR, later by NRCan. NRCan is promoting a celebration on June 4th and 5th,open to the public. Up to thousand people from the general public is expected to visit the telescope. C. Klatt will write an article for Elements.

 

Item 11: Adjourn

Motion to adjourn presented by H. Dragert, seconded by C. Klatt. Approved.