1. Report to GRSS Chapter Chairs 11 July 2016 Gail Skofronick Jackson
Women in Engineering (WIE) Women in Geoscience and Remote Sensing (WinGRSS) Gender Underrepresentation
Report to GRSS Chapter Chairs
11 July 2016
Gail Skofronick Jackson

2. WinGRSS Activities 1/4
Women’s Luncheon at IGARSS 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
2012/Munich /Melbourne
2015/Milan
2014/Quebec City

3. Women’s Event IGARSS 2016 Luncheon Tuesday 16 July 2016
Buffet Luncheon
Costs subsidized as part of IGARSS LOC budget
Keynote speaker: Qian (Jenny) Du with Mariko Burgin (WIE ILC attendee) providing lessons learned.
Will advertise:
Senior & fellow memberships
IEEE WIE ILC travel support
& Collect contact info

4. WinGRSS Activities 2/4
Women’s Column in Geoscience & Remote Sensing Magazine 

5. WinGRSS Activities 3/4
Travel Support to attend the IEEE WIE International Leadership Conference (1 GRSS member in 2014, 2015, & 2016) 
Theme: Lead Beyond: Accelerating Innovative Women Who Change the World. Sessions at the conference will be focused on leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship

6. WinGRSS Activities 4/4
Increasing opportunities for Women in GRSS activities
Develop and maintain a contact database for Women in GRSS.
Develop a mentoring program.
Increase female presenters, session chairs, invited speakers, conference and publication reviewers, representation technical committees, attendees at IEEE Leadership activities
Promote/Encourage senior memberships, award nominations for women candidates and associate editors
Promote the publication of journal articles by female GRSS members
Brand WinGRSS (logo, pins, badge flags, etc)
Encourage joint WIE+GRSS chapter meetings 

7. On April 8th, 2016, the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Women in Engineering (WIE) Student Chapter and the Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) IEEE-Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society (IEEE-GRSS) Student Chapter held a joint meeting on the campus of North Carolina State University.
Co-funded by a mini-grant to GRSS NENC Chapter and the DL Program.
The program was part of the Distinguished Lecture Series featuring
Dr. Melba Crawford, Associate Dean of Engineering for Research, Purdue University who's presentation was titled: "Hyperspectral Remotely
Sensed Data: Opportunities and Challenges."

8. Charge to Chapter Chairs
Encourage your (female and male) members to attend the Women’s Luncheon at IGARSS.
Suggest items for the Women in Geoscience and Remote Sensing GRS Magazine column (e.g., guest editors from your chapter, spotlight on a female member in your chapter, other topics).
Nominate or encourage your female members to apply for travel support for attending the WIE International Leadership Conference in San Jose, CA (May 2017). Nomination information is on GRSS webpage.
If you are interested in organizing a joint GRSS-WIE meeting in your region, please let us know.
Please provide a Point of Contact from your chapter for us to inform you of future GRSS WIE related activities.
Gail Skofronick Jackson & Linda Hayden