 COPRI's committees offer the opportunity for professionals to help define the standards, direction, and focus of the profession. Technical developments in research and practice in the coastal, ocean, port, and riverine communities are disseminated to the membership through committee sponsored conferences, workshops, and publications. Join a committee to begin taking an active role in developing key technical, professional, and educational issues in your discipline. Please e-mail the committee chair for information on how to join.  In October 2003, the COPRI Committee Chairs met with the COPRI Governing Board in Gainesville, FL. Pictured here are: (back row from the left) Gordon Sterling, Mark Lindgren, Tony Dalrymple, Stan White, Tom Christensen, Lesley Ewing; (front row from the left) Charles Calhoun, Jim Dailey, Don Hayes, Bob Dean, Mike Hemsley, Orville Magoon. Here are just a few of the many exciting things going on with COPRI's active committees and subcommittees. For more information on the COPRI committees and subcommittees pleaseplease contact the committee chair listed below or the COPRI staff at copri@asce.org or at (703) 295-6370. COPRI'S 16 Committees provide our members the opportunity to enhance their professional and technical development by working on a variety of products and services with other skilled professionals. Committee CornerCOPRI'S Coastal Zone Management Committee met on September 4, 2006, members of the committee are looking forward to the continued planning of the Solutions to Coastal Disasters Conference in 2008. For more information on the committee or the conference please contact committee chair Heather Schlosser at: Heather.R.Schlosser@spl01.usace.army.mil.The Wetlands & Sediment Management Committee held a meeting September 6, 2006 in San Diego. The Committee met to discuss upcoming initiatives as well as to reflect upon their first year as a committee. Upcoming projects include development/presentation of sessions at the Restore America's Estuaries Conference this December in New Orleans. Members of the Information, Needs, Resources and Dissemination subcommittee discussed the development of the Wetlands & Sediment Management Resource Guide. The committee plans to continue their push towards new and improved policies, including continuing work on their Regional Sediment Management policy (COPRI PS 01). For more information on how to get involved with this committee please visit their website at: http://www.coprinstitute.org/inside/wsm.cfm or contact committee chair Dom Izzo at DominicIzzo@houston.rr.com. Members of the Coastal Engineering Practice Committee took advantage of the time at ICCE to hold and ad hoc meeting amongst their members in attendance. The group discussed their future plans and ideas, along with leadership succession. The committee will be working towards developing topics and abstracts for the Solutions to Coastal Disasters Conference in 2008. For more information on this committee please contact the chair Susie Ming at susan.m.ming@spl01.usace.army.mil. The Coastal Engineering Research Council (CERC) met throughout the week at the ICCE conference. The group who oversees the technical programming of the conference looked back on a successful conference and looks forward to the future conferences.
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