1. Report to GRSS Chapter Chairs
Globalization and Chapter Chair Meeting The GRSS Underrepresented Program
Report to GRSS Chapter Chairs
10 July 2016
Linda Bailey Hayden

2. GRSS Underrepresented Program Committee
Hayden, Linda, Chair
Camps, Adriano
Goodenough, David
Hajnsek, Irena
Hallikainen, Martti
Jackson, Gail Skofronick
Lévesque, Josée
Luther, Charles A
Rosen, Paul A.
Tsang, Leung

3. GRSS, VP for Professional Activities Paolo Gamba
GRSS Underrepresented Committee
Linda Bailey Hayden, Chair
Finance Subcommittee
James A. Smith
Ana Ferreras
Others with funding expertise
Gender Underrepresentation
Gail Skofronick Jackson (Lead)
Josée Lévesque
Local Underrepresentation
Adriano Camps (Lead)
Martti Hallikainen, Paul Rosen
Leung Tsang, Irena Hajnsek
Ethnic Underrepresentation
Charles Luther (Lead)
David G. Goodenough

4. Objectives
Construct a forward vision for GRSS Underrepresented activities.
Develop a plan which has both short term and long term goals
Develop a budgets for implementing this plan as provided by each of the leads for the 3 subcommittees.

5. Local/Host Country Underrepresentation
Minorities are country-dependent and may be language dependent. Targeting them when a conference takes place in the region maximized the impact per GRSS invested dollars and increases GRSS membership.
I. Activities:
a. Provide technical writing assistance and publication fee assistance for authors.
b. Provide special journal issues on targeted regions.
c. Encourage support for the IEEE Non-discrimination Policy
d. Make support for local students available through the LOC or the subcommittee.

6. Local/Host Country Underrepresentation
II. Action Items:
Provide technical writing support and publication fees for papers coming from targeted regions or populations. This could take the form of a pool of volunteers.
Collaborate with the journal editors on special editions.
Collaborate with Conference Advisory Committee (CAC) and LOCs on non-discrimination policy implementation and local student travel support.
Provide membership assistance for targeted countries.
Arrange group-fee membership IEEE/GRSS for developing countries to be negotiated with IEEE, or reactivation of the proactive Affiliate Membership campaigns during IGARSS at GRSS booth.
Modify conference and event proposers manuals to include a
reference to IEEE non-discrimination policy.

7. Ethnic Underrepresented
Expansion of the existing successful travel program for minorities. Aggressive effort to engage past awardees in GRSS membership recruitment, conference and technical committee activities.
Activities:
a. Continue currently successful outreach to targeted students with emphasis on graduate students.
b. Support for past MTP participants who are now YP & mentors.
c. Free memberships to help boast CV, connect to more job opportunities.
d. Involve participants in YP activities.
e. Assign more presenters, sessions chair, reviewers; increase membership on
technical committees.

8. Ethnic Underrepresented
II. Action Items
Continue currently successful outreach to targeted students with emphasis on graduate students.
Provide support for past MTP participants who are now YP & mentors.
Provide free memberships to help boast CV, connect to more job opportunities.
Involve participants in YP activities.
e. Make travel funds available.

9. GENDER Underrepresentation
The reasons for gender underrepresentation can be cultural or economic and may vary from country to country.
 I. Activities:
a. Develop and maintain a contact database for Women in GRSS.
b. Develop a mentoring program.
c. Increase female presenters, session chairs, invited speakers,
conference and publication reviewers, representation on technical
committees, attendees at IEEE Leadership activities
d. Promote/Encourage award nominations for women candidates and
associate editors
e. Develop a selection procedure to decide who will get travel/financial support.
f. Submit cover articles in GRSS Magazine about or written by people
who got support.

10. Gender Underrepresentation
 II. Action Items:
a) Make travel funds available for GRSS member women to attend GRSS sponsored technical meetings, summer schools and the annual IEEE sponsored International Leadership Conference
b) Ease publication (free pages, technical editing, special issues, free translation)
c) Promote WIE within GRSS Chapters and joint meetings
d) Host WIE conference luncheon. Collect names and contact info during conference registration process and via online forms on GRSS webpages to produce the database for Women in GRSS.
e) Free memberships (different ones every year): help boast CV, connect to more jobs.
f) Special awards and Badge ID stick-on-flags at conferences showing WIE logo
g) Assist with LOC efforts to identify Day care when possible and activities for family/children

11. Common to All 3 Subcommittees
Find innovative methods to collect contact data (name, ) for distributing information.
Encourage underrepresented & YP to be serve as co-chairs at IGARSS and other GRSS sponsored meetings.
Subsidized travel support for attendance at GRSS technically sponsored meetings, YP conferences, summer schools.
Only current GRSS members will have access to actual funding (travel, English proofreading, reduced publication charges, etc.).

12. 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

13. IEEE Senior membership Fellow nominations IGARSS reviewer
Your assistance is needed to identify members in your chapter who are interested in:
GRSS membership
IEEE Senior membership
Fellow nominations
IGARSS reviewer
IGARSS co-chair opportunities
GRSS Education and Outreach activities
GRSS Region specific opportunities and collaborative programs
GRSS Young Professional activities
GRSS Globalization activities
GRSS Industry Engagement activities
GRSS Strategic Initiatives
GRSS Distinguished Lecture Program
GRSS Underrepresented Program Activities
GRSS Technical committee activities