Florida Region member and University of Florida Geomatics PhD Candidate Ben Wilkinson walked away with two Awards at the 2010 ASPRS conference in San Diego.

The first award given to Ben was the Paul R. Wolf Memorial Scholarship, in recognition of his outstanding academic credentials and his plans and enthusiasm to become an education professional in Surveying, Mapping, and Photogrammetry.

The second award was for 2nd Place in the John I. Davidson President’s Award for Practical Papers. His paper, “A new Approach for Pass-point Generation from Aerial Video Imagery” was published in the PE&RS, 75(4), p. 437-442 and was co-authored by Florida Region board member Bon Dewitt, Adam Watts, Ahmed Mohammed and Matthew Burgess.

ASPRS credited Ben as having demonstrated and has been recognized at all levels for his continued interest, dedication, enthusiasm and aptitude to become an education professional.

Congratulations, Ben – the Florida Region is proud of your accomplishments!

In an effort to promote professional networking within the Florida Region of ASPRS, we would like to extend an opportunity to win a $100 gift card being offered by the Florida Region. By having your profile picture and biography uploaded onto our site, we will automatically enter you in the drawing for the $100 gift card. Region and National board members will NOT be included in the drawing; thus, increasing your chances of winning (estimated to be 1:250 chance) The drawing will take place at the Florida Region open board meeting to taking place on Thursday, November 18, 2010 1:00 PM-4:00 PM at the Doubletree Hotel - Universal Orlando in the Cape Canaveral Room: 5780 Major Blvd, Orlando, FL 32819. You do not need to attend in order to win.

In order to qualify to win this gift card, you must have an image of yourself uploaded onto the Florida Region website, and also have a short biography updated on the site as well.

In order to do this, you can either log in to www.flasprs.com using your information below; or submit this information to me by responding to this email with the information attached or included. If you submit to me via email, please include the biography in the body of your email, and submit the headshot image in .jpg format with the file extension renamed “.ngjpg”.

To do the updates on the site yourself, use the following steps:

Log in using your e-mail:and password - most likely your ASPRS Member ID.

· (use the forgot login link if you need a reminder)

After logging in, click on your profile picture under “User Login”

Then go to “Edit” and select “Update Your Image”

On the following screen, you can upload a headshot or select an image from the image gallery

Then, go to “Edit” again, and this time go to “Update Your Profile”

Now click on the “Contact Info” Tab – and copy and paste your biography in text box provided under the “Biography” section

Then Click the “Update” button below

And – walla! You are now officially entered for the $100 gift card.

If you have any issues with the website, please feel free to contact me by phone: 352-535-0307

Good Luck!

Brian Murphy

Vice President and Webmaster

Florida Region of ASPRS