NEXT MEETING
The 2012 Summer Meeting will be held on Saturday, May 12, 2012 at the:
U.S. Geological Survey
345 Middlefield Road
Menlo Park, California 94025
DIRECTIONS
Our meeting will be held in the Auditorium, 2nd Floor, Building 3 on the USGS site map. It is a half a block from the main entrance on Middlefield Road on Survey Lane. There is parking in front of Building 3 as well as just beyond it. For directions to the USGS facilities and to see a map of the USGS campus including Building 3, click here.
REGISTRATION
Members and guests are welcome to attend the meeting. We only ask that you register so we can plan properly for your attendance. You may register in either of these ways:
- Printed Form: Download the registration form, print it, complete it, and mail it with your check to our Treasurer as noted on the form. OR
- Electronic Registration: Complete the online e-registration and submit it via email as instructed on the form. Then mail your check to our Treasurer as noted on the form. By using this option, you will not need to use a printer as in option 1.
The meeting is being organized by Leonard Rothman, the CMS Northern California Vice President. If you would like to help Len with this event, please contact him at len@californiamapsociety.org.
The program as it is refined will always be posted here:
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
CALIFORNIA MAP SOCIETY MEETING
at the
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
WESTERN REGION HEADQUARTERS, MENLO PARK
SATURDAY MAY 12, 2012
08:00 Registration and morning refreshments
08:30 Welcome, Fred DeJarlais, President of CMS, and Leonard Rothman, CMS Vice President, Northern California. Ms. Leslie C. Gordon, Public Affairs Specialist, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey will provide welcome and further remarks for the attendees.
08:30 – 09:15 “HOW MAPS WIN WARS” - Fred DeJarlais, CMS President, a retired urban planner in private industry and for the Mission Bay Project in San Francisco, and Tom Conrad, CMS member, an independent city planner and former member of the Walnut Creek Planning Commission, will discuss and illustrate the importance of mapping, surveying and target detection during World War I.
09:15 – 10:30 “THE USE OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) TO PRODUCE COASTAL MAP PRODUCTS FOR THE PUBLIC”
- Jonathan Van Coops, CMS member and Mapping/GIS Program Manager for the California Coastal Commission (CCC). He is also co-project cartographer for the CCC public guidebook series. He will showcase examples from the recently completed four volume regional coastal guide book series.
10:30-10-45 Morning break and refreshments
10:45-11:30 “THE ILLICIT SIDE OF MAP COLLECTING - Thefts and Forgeries" - Curt and Marti Griggs, CMS members and co-partners in “OLD MAPS LLC,” specialize in publishing antique map price records and map evaluations. They previously owned and operated the internet based “Old World Auctions”, and are recognized experts in antique map authentication, history and fair value.
11:30 – 12:30 Lunch (no host) at the USGS Café and time to visit the USGS store which is run by the California Geological Survey and sells both USGS and CGS publications.
12:30 - 1:00 General Membership Meeting (open to everyone)
Fred DeJarlais, President California Map Society
“CHARTING THE ROUTE AHEAD”
01:00 – 01:45 “THE DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD THROUGH MAPS” - Wesley Brown, CMS member, a co-founder of St. Charles Capital, the Rocky Mountain Map Society, former President of the Denver Library Commission and advisor to the Library of Congress Geography and Map division. He will present an investigation of the evolving conception of the shape of the earth from Homer (800BCE) to Sebastian Munster (mid 16th century) with illustrations.
01:45 – 02:00 Afternoon break and refreshments
02:00 - 02:45 “CELESTIAL FRONTISPIECES AND ILLUSTRATED TITLE PAGES: (their beauty, variety and significance) - Nick Kanas, CMS member. Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF and a NASA-funded principal investigator, doing psychological research with astronauts and cosmonauts. Nick is publishing the 2nd edition of his book “Star Maps: History, Artistry and Cartography” later this year, to include this new and unusual category, which he will present with illustrations.
02:45 – 03:30 USGS's FAVORITE CARTOGRAPHIC ITEMS - Ms. Leslie Gordon of the USGS will present exemplars from their old and odd globe collection and lead a tour of the USGS Library Map Room.
03:30 – 04:00 Directors’ Meeting (Interested members are encouraged to stay and participate)
There will be a beverage and cheese reception after the meeting at the conference reception hall.
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