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Geological Remote Sensing Group
GRSG SIG Annual Report 2004-2005
This year there were GRSG sessions at the EARSeL Symposium in Dubrovnik (on Geohazards) and at RSPSoc2004. At Aberdeen we had a natural resource theme, with sessions on exploration and environmental impacts. The annual conference, at the Geological Society of London, was a two-day meeting on Mapping hazardous terrain. It was one of our largest and most international conferences, with presentations on features in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australasia and Europe.
There were four committee meetings during 2004. The GRSG Secretary, Claire Roberts, stepped down for family reasons and Naz Khaleque was elected to replace her at the AGM. The new Newsletter Editor is Alex Davies: he faces a busy time, as it was decided at the AGM that we should start distributing the GRSG Newsletter in a digital format, which might attract more substantial, full-colour articles. There are two new committee members: Michael King (NPA Group) and our new Student Rep, Rachel Holley (Reading
University). On the international front, Richard Beddell, is the new USA Rep. Our retiring USA Rep, John Berry, was given a GRSG Lifetime Achievement Award, along with one of the GRSG’s “founding fathers”, Geoff Lawrence. The 2004 NPA Student Award (£250) went to Richard Eyers of Newcastle University, for a paper on Multispectral remote sensing of subsidence zones.
Membership is currently c. 160. During 2004 membership rates were reviewed and found to be insufficient to cover costs. Given that the membership rates have been held constant for many years, the Committee decided a small increase in fees was needed. For Corporate Sponsors, we have held the fee for small companies, but doubled the fee to those with over 10 employees. Meanwhile our costs have been reduced.
Some years ago we decided to encourage research and attract more student members by offering two Student Stipends of up to £250. NPA Group have now offered to sponsor both awards; one focused on geohazards/engineering geology, and the other on Earth resource and exploration. The hazardous terrain conference was strongly supported by sponsors including Taylor & Francis, Springer/Kluwer, SassolChevron and Arup. Many thanks to all our sponsors.
Richard Teeuw
