WSS-ACSM

There is a plan afoot to climb Mt. Rainier this summer with GPS equipment and a gravitometer. Previous expeditions were made in 1988 and 1999, resulting in useful GPS data and lots of breathtaking pictures, which you may see in Larry Signani’s PowerPoint presentation (102mb download) at:
http://www.wss-acsm.org/MT-RAINIER-REMEASUREMENT.ppt

A PDF version (50mb download) of the same PowerPoint can now be found at: http://www.wss-acsm.org/MT-RAINIER-REMEASUREMENT.pdf

If you are interested in being a part of the climb effort, join http://groups.google.com/group/rainier-survey-2010.

Thursday, 18 March 2010
6:00 PM
Angelo’s Restaurant
1830 130th Ave NE
Bellevue, WA.

This month we are having a business meeting. Among the discussion items are:
1) A review of the by-laws having to do with Section membership and dues;
2) Discussion of the future of ACSM as primarily a surveyors’ organization, and the implications of that for our future existence as a Section;
3) Items to bring to the Council of Sections at national ACSM in April;
4) Meeting Presentation Ideas for the remainder of 2010;
5) New Leadership & New Perspectives;
6) Future seminars/workshops as a way to make some money.
We have limited room, so please let us know if you plan to attend by forwarding an email to ponytrouble@gmail.com as soon as possible.
Dinner meeting price is $30.00 and $10.00 for students – not including drinks.

Printable postable PDF version of the March 18th 2010 meeting announcement available here.

The WSS-ACSM Annual LSAW Conference Dinner will be held in the Venice Ballroom, Hotel Murano, 1320 Broadway Plaza, Tacoma, WA 98402 at 6:30pm, Wednesday March 3rd, 2010.

The next regular dinner meeting, March 18th, 2010, will be a business meeting with no scheduled presentation, at Angelos in Bellevue.

The April dinner meeting will feature a presentation by Jon Warren, PLS, of David Evans and Associates regarding their work in support of the grout curtain retrofit at the Howard Hansen dam. This will also be at Angelos in Bellevue.

The May 20th, 2010 dinner meeting will feature a presentation by Janet Wilkins, a Land Surveyor from the Bureau of Land Management’s Oregon State Office, about the Geographic Coordinate Data Base (GCDB) project.

We are interested in hearing from anyone in the geospatial community with ideas for programs for the rest of 2010 — your own programs, something you saw elsewhere that needs more exposure, or simply something you would like to learn about.