GW E&EM and GETF Officials Meet on Joint Programs

October 29, 1999

On March 12, 2000, top officials of the Global Environment and Technology Foundation (GETF) met with E&EM representatives at the GETF headquarters building in Northern Virginia. The purpose of the meeting was to flesh out ideas for joint GW-E&EM/GETF partnerships in the area of satellite imagery and related technologies to earth science and environmental protection applications. The following personnel participated in the meeting:

Monica Ellis, President, Global Environmental and Technology Foundation
Richard Cooper, President, Global Initiatives, Inc.
William Roper, E&EM Visiting Professor and former Director, Topographic Engineering Laboratory, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Sue Hall, E&EM Doctoral Candidate and Senior Engineer, National Imagery and Mapping Agency
Hank Habicht, Chief Executive Officer, Global Environmental and Technology Foundation and former Deputy Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Jonathan Deason, Lead Professor, E&EM Program

GW-E&EM/GETF partnership possibilities discussed at the meeting included those involving the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Agency for International Development, World Bank, and Global Initiatives, Inc. Project areas include sustainable urban management, emergency response and preparedness, commercial applications of remote technologies in the renewable natural resources area, and international environmental protection. The March 12 meeting, which was the second in a series of GW-E&EM/GETF discussions, began a process of convergence on several joint collaborations between the two organizations.