1. 31 st European Symposium on Occultation Projects (ESOP-31) Pescara, Italy, late August, 2012 Report given 2012 October 19 IOTA meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada David W. Dunham

2. Highlights of the ESOP31 Meeting Beautiful location on the Adriatic Coast east of Rome I renewed acquaintances with European colleagues, and met new observers; interesting cultural program organized by Costantino Sigismondi Most active IOTA section chasing TNO occultations Plans of expeditions from France, Germany, and Spain to video record the November 13 th total solar eclipse from the path edges, but Decided to make one last effort for the 2017 August US total solar eclipse, then probably defer the solar diameter measurements to space-based observations History of the HMNAO occultation machine Wieth-Knudsen Award

3. Meeting location in ICRAnet office in old train station

8. Sacro – Cuore Cathedral

9. IOTA/ES President Hans Bode reads an announcement

10. ESOP 31 Group Photo

11. Group on train to Lanciano, Costantinos home town, a city over 3000 years old. Carles Schnabel is wearing a yellow shirt; he is the local coordinator for ESOP-32 next year near Barcelona

12. The Group walking around Lanciano. Alan Pratt (UK) is on the right and Wolfgang Beisker (DE) is on the left.