The following twenty OES Chapters are presently operational:

To remain operational and qualify for their annual rebate these chapters must complete an online L31 meeting report for two technical meetings annually. The online report blank is found at www.ieee.org/L31. Technical meetings in 2009 reported at this time are:

Atlantic Canada (Halifax)
     2009.03.13           Dr. Graham Daborn
     Where should we go with Fundy Tidal Power?
     2009.06.11           Dr. M.A. Rahman
     Advances in IPM Technology for Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Ottawa (Joint Chapter with SP and GRS Societies)
     2009.03.17           Vickram Krisnamurthy
     Adaptive Filtering Games for Designing Reconfigurable Sensor Networks

Singapore
     2009.06.12           Affan Syed
     Understanding and Exploiting the Acoustic Propagation Delay in Underwater Sensor Networks
     2009.06.16           Dr. Stephen Simpson
     The Importance of Reef Noise for Coral Reef Fishes: Lessons

United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (Joint Chapter with GRS Society)
     2009.01.07           Dr. Li Zhang
     Relating Crop Patterns to Soil Moisture Variation by Remote Sensing
     2009.03.24           Dr. Yong Xue
     Grid Computing and High Performance GeoComputation
     2009.06.25           Forrest Hoffman
     Data Mining of Climate-Related Data
     2009.09.28           Dr. Bob Yu
     The U.S. GOES-R Algorithm Working Group Team: Activities and Accomplishments

Victoria
     2009.04.01           Emmett Gamroth
     Design, Implementation, and Testing of an Underwater Global Positioning System

Chapters are encouraged to file these reports with in a week so that the information can be passed on to OES members I a timely way. In any case to qualify for a 20% bonus reports must be filed by February 20th.
     The OES is encouraging members to consider new chapters where they do not yet exist. Additionally, some Chapters are relatively inactive since, in most cases, the Chairs have moved on to other responsibilities or new positions not technically related to the OES field of interest. If this is the case in your area and you would consider helping, for more information and assistance please contact me, Jim Collins, OES Chapters Coordinator at j.s.collins@ieee.org or +1-250-595-6928.