The Eastern Great Lakes Region (EGLR) of ASPRS is an active group of highly professional government, academic, private sector and interested parties from the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, the State of Ohio and northern Pennsylvania who are dedicated to advancing knowledge, skills and capabilities in applying mapping sciences and information management techniques within the region. The EGLR-ASPR works collaboratively with adjacent regions and Canadian colleagues to promote Society goals and objectives across the Great Lakes and Ohio River watersheds of the United States. The EGLR-ASPRS is home to many leading Sustaining Members of the Society, highly respected academic instituions with tremendous technological expertise and dedicated governmental organizations that rely upon photogrammetry and remote sensing. The EGLR-ASPRS also puts a significant premium on advancing our student chapters to promote long-term sustainability of the Society within the region.

• EGLR and WGLR to Conduct Joint Meeting in June 2009
  
  The Eastern Great Lakes Region (EGLR) is conducting a joint Summer Meeting with the Western Great Lakes Region (WGLR) on Friday, June 12, 2009 at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI. The meeting agenda is stacked full of interesting and timely technical presentations with emphasis on human interactions with riverine environments. More information on the meeting, including locations, times and directions is included in the agenda.



• 3001, Inc. and Collaborators Start Massive Aerial Mapping Project
  
  3001, Inc. today announced an award by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to support the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) office of Customs and Border Protection (CPB) for the collection of aerial data over the U.S./Canada and Mexico borders. For this vast project, 3001 has assembled a large team of aerial data collection companies, with a combined fleet of fifteen airborne sensors, including the Leica Airborne Digital Sensor and the Zeiss/Intergraph Digital Mapping Camera. All of the Great Lakes shoreline, including the interconnecting waterways (but excluding Lake Michigan since it is not a binational lake), will have imagery collected this summer. Nominal coverage will be up to 20 miles inland from the shore. For further information, see: www.3001inc.com/GeoHome/news.asp.



• New Officers Elected
  The EGLR elected new officers in January, 2009. We will be lead over the next year by a cast of very qualified members. Congratulations are extended to: Dr. Robert Burtch (Ferris State University) who will move up to the Presidency; allowing Jason Heywood (Aerocom Photogrammetric Services) to assume the well-deserved position of Past President; Dr. James K. Lein (Ohio University), our new Vice President; George Leshkevich (NOAA Great Lake Environmental Research Laboratory), who has graciously accepted to continue on as the Secretary/Treasurer; Dr. Charles Toth, our new National Director; and Brad Fugate (Woolpert LLC) and Greg Lemke (Airland Surveys), who are signing onto new two-year Regional Director terms. Colin Brooks (Michigan Tech Research Institute) is continuing to serve through his term as our third Regional Director. We want to recognize the long-term contributions of Dr. Carolyn Merry (The Ohio State University) and Roger Gauthier, who have left the ranks of officers. When you see any of these folks, please congratulate them and thank them for keeping the regional chapter strong.
  
  
• ELGR Wins National Honors
  During the ASPRS 2009 Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, the EGLR was recognized as the Second Honorable Mention for Region of the Year, Second Place for Regional Newsletter and Third Place for Regional Website of the Year. Much credit for these recognitions should be directed toward Jason Heywood for his regional leadership last year, to Sherry McGartland (BAE Systems) for her tireless work on compiling the newsletter and for the quality work provided by the Great Lakes Commission for maintaining the region's web pages.
  
  
• Dr. Carolyn Merry Elected to National ASPRS President-Elect Position
  Congratulations are offered to Dr. Carolyn Merry, the Chair of the Civil, Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Sciences Department at the Ohio State University, who was inducted as the new National ASPRS President-Elect. Dr. Merry has been an ASPRS member since 1975 and has served the Society as Chair of the Publications Committee,
  
  Membership Chair for the EGLR and Technical Program Co-Chair for the 2007 ASPRS/CRSS Fall Technical Conference. Currently, in addition to her faculty and chair responsibilities at OSU, Dr. Merry serves as the Director of OSU's Center for Mapping. Dr. Merry received her BS in Geology from Edinboro University, a MA in Geology from Dartmouth College, and a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland. It is certainly nice to see one of our own regional members taking on broader national roles and responsibilities. Great to see Carolyn!
  
  
• EGLR Supports MichiganView Application
  The Eastern Great Lakes Region has gone on record supporting an application made by Michigan Technological University Research Institute to form a state chapter under the U.S. Geological Survey's AmericaView Program. If funded, the MichiganView initiative will work towards developing a comprehensive cataloguing service of spaceborne and aerial imagery that could be shared by users managing Michigan's resources.

• Joint EGLR/WGLR Meeting
  

For a list of national ASPRS events, see the ASPRS Calendar.