CGU-GS
Annual General Meeting
Room 252, Max Bell Room
Minutes
List of Participants:
Spiros Pagiatakis – spiros@yorku.ca
Marcelo
Santos – msantos@unb.ca
Marc
Veronneau – marcv@nrcan.gc.ca
Artu Ellmann – ellmann@unb.ca
Calvin Klatt – cklatt@nrcan.gc.ca
Rod Blais – blais@ucalgary.ca
Jialiang Huang – jianhuan@nrcan.gc.ca
Ibraheen Ali – iali@yorku.ca
Mohamed El-Habiby
– mmelhabi@ucalgary.ca
Mahmond Abd
El-Gelil – mahmoud@yorku.ca
Muhammad Asif
Soofi – soofi@ucalgary.ca
Daniel R. Roman –
dan.roman@noaa.gov
Item 1: Acceptance of the Agenda
Moved by CK, seconded by RB. Approved
Item 2: Approval of Minutes of Previous Meeting
Moved by RB, seconded by CK. Approved
Item 3: Business Arising
Item 4.4 of last year’s AGM. New student members. Current CGU members moved to GS. Currently there are 35 members.
Calvin Klatt wrote a report on the 100th Anniversary of the Dominion Observatory for elements and place on the GS website.
IPY Projects (to be reported at Item 4)
NCN-IUGG and report to NRC: being developed
to be submitted to incoming IUGG General Assembly in 2008.
Item
4: President’s Report
4.1 Projects
(IPY, CAGENET)
Three IPY proposals: one to NSERC (lead by P. Wu) and two to the Federal Government (lead by C. Klatt). Expecting results by May and late Summer, respectively (reported by C. Klatt).
CAGENET: Project submitted to CFI, lead by
M. Sideris co-lead by S. Pagiatakis. Website located at www.cagenet.ca (reported by
4.2 Students
Paper 2006
A total of seven papers competing for the
$500.00 prize. Winners will be announced at the CGU Awards Banquet.
4.3 Geoid
and GEOIDE Worshop
Geoid Workshop on Wednesday in the morning.
GEOIDE related Workshop on two projects (SST and Space Gravimetry) on Wednesday in the afternoon..
4.4 Next
CGU meeting (
Meeting been organized by CMOS (abstracts, registrations, on-line).
Plenary speakers and Special sessions: Suggest ideas to R. Blais.
Geoid Workshop and on GEOIDE-related projects.
Plans for first circular, meeting advertising: towards the end of the summer.
Item
5: Secretariat report (M. Santos)
Effort has been put on attracting new members, from current CGU membership and from outside.
CGU will build a new website integrating the GS, possibly under the same server.
Item
6: Treasurer Report (R. Blais)
a.
Balance from last year: $535.07
(as of
b.
Expenses of M. Santos: $41.20
(as of
c.
Accumulated Interest: $0.22 (as
of
d.
Balance in Bank of Montreal
account 2509-8336-565: $494,09 (as of
Moved by C. Klatt, seconded by M. Verounneau. Treasurer report approved.
GS has still to invoice seed money of $500, plus $10 per member as per May 2004 number of members.
Item 7: Nominations Committee (S. Pagiatakis)
Bylaws and elections refer to a nomination committee composed of current president, S. Pagiatakis, plus past-presidents. In the absence of past-presidents, Marc Veroneau and Petr Vaníček were invited.
Nominees have accepted in writing their nominations.
Nominees are:
a. Marcelo Santos President (UNB)
b. Joe Henton Vice-President (NRCan)
c. Georgia Fotopoulus Secretary (UofT)
d. Rod Blais Treasurer (UofC)
e. Patrick Wu Member-at-large (UofC)
f. Alex Braun Member-at-large (UofC)
g.
Spiros Pagiatakis Past-President (
Item 8: Elections for new GS Executive
Nominees moved by M. Veronneau and seconded by C. Klatt.
Comments opened to the floor.
Motion moved.
Item
9: Other Business
None.
Item
10: Adjourn
Motion to adjourn the meeting. Moved by C. Klatt. Seconded by R. Blais. Approved.