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Are you a member of the ASPRS in good-standing, and know someone in the Florida Region who has made significant contributions or advancements to the remote sensing, photogrammetric, or Geographic Information Systems (GIS) profession?  Here is your chance to give that person some well-deserved recognition.

The Florida Region of ASPRS is now accepting nominations for the

Professional Recognition Award.  This is a yearly award meant to highlight the accomplishments of professionals whose actions have promoted the

mission of the ASPRS.  Of those nominated, two (2) will be selected (a

current Florida Region ASPRS member and a non-member) for the award.

Winners of the award will receive a one-year paid ASPRS membership.

To submit a nomination form go to:

http://www.flasprs.com/docs/ASPRS_Professional_Award_Recognition_Form_07262010.pdf

Hurry! Nominations end August 31st.

*Only Florida and Puerto Rico residents are eligible for the non-member award, while the member award is limited to current Florida Region members. All eligibility requirements and exclusions apply.

 

 
2010 News

On November 17 of 2009, the Florida Region participated as both a sponsor of and vendor at the annual GIS Day event hosted by the University of South Florida St. Petersburg.  The event invites children and adults to experience geography through educational presentations and GIS technology demonstrations.  The Florida Region took advantage of this opportunity to interact with students, and discuss the benefits our professional society provides to its members.  The event was an overall success.

 
2010 News

The national 2010 ASPRS Fall conference will be held in Orlando this year. This year’s fall conference will be a great opportunity for Florida Region members to attend certification workshops, in addition to attending a variety of other technical presentations.

STUDENTS: This will be a great opportunity to volunteer and get involved with the Student Advisory Council at a National Level. Also, travel scholarships are available to help subsidize hotel stays and gas.

Login and Contact Kim Tilley for volunteering information

For more information about scholarships, please refer to this post.

Because the Fall conference will be held here in Florida, the Florida Board has decided to suspend this year’s Geospatial Symposium.

Stay tuned. We anticipate having some REGIONAL events organized for this meeting.

 

 

President, Evan Brown, CP, CMS

Evan Brown is a Certified Photogrammetrist (CP) and Certified Mapping Scientist (CMS GIS/LIS) with 15 years of experience.  Evan is a graduate of the University of Florida with a bachelor’s degree in Geography and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Geomatics also from the University of Florida.  Evan is employed with Sarasota County Government its Enterprise GIS Manager.  Evan's 15 years of experience include technical efforts and project management in GIS, GPS, photogrammetry, LIDAR, and remote sensing.  Evan has been a member of ASPRS since 2001 and has been honored to serve the Florida Region as Director and Vice President since 2007.  Please contact Evan at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it should you have questions or input for the Florida Region.

Vice-President, Brian E. Murphy, CP, GISP

Brian Murphy currently serves as a Business Development lead for the Integrated Intelligence Systems Business Unit of Northrop Grumman where he has been working in the geospatial industry for just over six years. While at Northrop Grumman, he has held a variety of geospatial positions, including geospatial analysis, GIS application development, photogrammetry,  orthorectifiation and LiDAR processing. He graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor’s in Land and Water Management (2001) and a Masters of Arts in Urban and Regional Planning (2009). Brian currently serves as the Florida Region Vice President and Webmaster, in addition to serving as the Vice-Chair of the national ASPRS membership committee. He also serves on a number of other national level ASPRS committees and divisions, including the Sustaining Members Council and Professional Practice Division.

Past President, Erin McCormick

Mr. McCormick has over 12 years of experience in the mapping and environmental sciences here in Florida. He earned a Bachelors of Science degree from the University of Rhode Island in Environmental Geology and worked for several years as a Hydro Geologist before moving into the mapping field. He has worked on projects ranging from USGS Quadrangle updates, wetlands delineations, Land Use/Land Cover and photogrammetric mapping. Currently he is the Past President of the Florida Region of ASPRS and works for Aero-Metric, Inc. as an Account Manager for the Southeastern United States.

Secretary and Treasurer, Dr. Bon Dewitt

Bon Dewitt is an Associate Professor and administers the Geomatics Program in the School of Forest Resources and Conservation at the University of Florida. He conducts research and teaches courses in many of the various aspects of Geomatics. He has been a member of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing since 1981 and has served on the ASPRS Florida Region Board of Directors for over 15 years. Dr. Dewitt is also licensed as a Professional Surveyor and Mapper in the State of Florida and serves on the Board of Directors for the Florida Surveying and Mapping Society.

National Director, Jeff Young

T. Jeffrey “Jeff” Young is currently the Vice President and Director of Photogrammetry for Pickett & Associates, Inc. He is a Florida licensed Surveyor & Mapper, a licensed Photogrammetric Surveyor with the State of South Carolina, a licensed Surveyor Photogrammetrist with the Commonwealth of Virginia and an ASPRS Certified Photogrammetrist. Jeff has held positions within ASPRS as a Florida Director, National Membership Chairperson and is currently Florida’s National Director. He has been a member since 1993.

Director, Ekaterina Fitos

Ekaterina Fitos is a certified GIS professional currently employed with the Southwest Florida Water Management District. Her responsibilities include: project management for the District’s Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data with focus on distribution and maintaining quality assurance and control, contract administration for the annual Digital Orthophotography program, and GIS analysis. She holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA), Masters in Geography and GIS, and Bachelors in Environmental Science. Ekaterina has served as a Director for the Florida Region of ASPRS since 2008, and is currently chair of the Professional Award Committee.

Director, Michael Joos

Michael Joos is a Certified Photogrammetrist and GISP with more than 25 years experience in the photogrammetric and geospatial profession. Throughout his career, he has held a variety of technical and business development positions, and is currently employed as Manager of US Sales by GeoCue Corporation.
Having called Florida home since 2004, Michael is a native a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and states, quite unequivocally, that he will forever be a diehard Pittsburgh Steelers fan. When he’s not rooting for the Steelers, you just might find him out cruising Florida’s back roads on his 2003 Harley Davidson Road King.

Director, Mike Rodger

Michael Rodger is Vice President of Southern Resource Mapping in Flagler Beach, Florida and is a Certified Photogrammetrist, Registered Professional Photogrammetrist (OR) and Licensed Surveyor Photogrammetrist (VA). He has over 25 years of experience in Photogrammetry, mapping and GIS. In his career he has served in project management and executive positions, including co-founding a Photogrammetric company and creating and managing an in-house Photogrammetric department at a Fortune 500 company. Michael has served as project manager on hundreds of mapping projects for private engineer, land surveyor and land development companies to military, federal and state governments. His experience includes project design, flight and ground control planning, stereo and geographic information systems data compilation and LiDAR processing. Michael currently serves as a Director on the Florida board of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

Director, Brenda Burroughs

Brenda has been in the Geospatial Profession for over twenty years. She is currently the U.S Region Sales Manager for Optech, responsible for sales and marketing of Airborne Digital Aerial Camera and LiDAR Systems. She began her career selling Landsat satellite imagery and over the years has expanded her knowledge and experience to include aerial imagery, digital mapping and analytical services, with extensive knowledge and background in GIS/Remote Sensing Applications products and services.

 
2010 News

It has been an excellent year for the Florida Region of ASPRS, we have built upon the traditions we started in 2008 and expanded on them in 2009.

We had two technical meetings this year.  We had our Second Annual Geospatial Symposium in Gainesville, FL at the Best Western Gateway Grand on February 24th & 25th, with multiple presenters, paid sponsors and a very well attended Certification Preparation Course with Bob Burtch.  Information on the Symposium can be found by downloading the agenda at the following link:http://flasprs.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/2ndannualgeosympprogram.pdf, it is also attahed.  Special thanks to Brian Murphy for organizing the event once again this year.  It was very well attended and much expanded from last year.  We advertised on our website and at all of the events we attended

In 2010 we plan to participate in the ASPRS Fall Conference and will temporarily suspend the Symposium.  It was the decision of the Florida Board to host a Symposium on the years that there will be no National ASPRS meetings in the state, so that we can focus our energies on one main Technical meeting per year.

In 2009 we once again participated in the Annual Florida Surveyors and Mappers Conference with another full day of classes, three 2 hour presentations, taught by our Board Members, as well as a Florida Region ASPRS exhibit booth.  This was also advertised on our websitewww.flasprs.org and the website for FSMS http://www.fsms.org .  Conference schedule attached with ASPRS track highlighted.  At both of the Technical meetings we held board meetings where all were invited to attend and participate; several members took advantage of this and joined us for our meeting.

We advertised the open positions for the Board of Directors on the website and had 4 candidates for 3 positions.  We sent out approximately 450 ballots and received 85 ballots returned.

The Region Newsletter has become fully digital and is hosted on our website as our weblog section

http://flasprs.org/blog/

Here you can find out all the happenings and events for the Region as well as articles from our members.  When a new article/announcement is posted it is automatically sent via email to all of our members.  This also includes a Quarterly President’s Message to keep everyone informed of Region activities.

Our membership committee and Board members have contacted all of the unpaid members in the Region via phone or email, unless their information was out of date and they were not able to be located.  The campaign spreadsheet is attached.

In an effort to recruit new members we were able to exhibit this year at the University of South Florida GIS Day (and hope to join in with them again and other GIS events in the future)http://flasprs.org/blog/?p=116 In April of 2009 the FL Region ASPRS additionally had an exhibit booth at the National GITA Conference held here in Tampa.

Our National Director, Jeff Young, has attended all of the National meetings and has passed his report along to the board members and it is available to all FL Region members.

In 2009 we also started a new tradition for Awards to honor members and non-members in our Profession with a 1 year full membership and one year paid renewal.

The Award will be an Annual Professional Recognition Award and the Nominees will be selected by our members via an online Nomination form to be found on the website http://flasprs.org/blog/?p=109 .  After the nominations are collected the Board will read them over and vote for the best candidates for both Awards in 2010.

The Florida Region has completed all of the requirements under Article V Section 6 of the bylaws in order to receive our full Region Rebate for 2009.  This will be my last post as President and I want to be the first to welcome incoming President Evan Brown and wish him success in his endeavors in the coming years.

Regards,

Erin McCormick

Florida Region President ASPRS

 

 
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