• E. Douglas Sethness, Jr., President

• Michael J. Briggs, Secretary

• C. Gary Carroll, COPRI Executive Director
• Patricia Brown, COPRI Director
• Kelly Barnes, Program Coordinator
• Robert Silverstein, Director of Advertising

Doug conducted reviews of the previous meeting minutes and this meeting agenda.

Jim presided over the following reports from the ASCE Board of Direction (BOD) meetings.

3.2 ASCE supports the concept of the Master’s Degree or Equivalent (MOE) as the prerequisite for licensure and the practice of civil engineering at the professional level.

3.3 The Committee on Professional Practice is looking for COPRI representatives for three of their subcommittees. Jim has tentatively nominated (a) B.K. Lee for the Engineering Management and Business Practices Committee, (b) Charles Calhoun for the Continuing Education Committee, and (c) Robert C. Williams for he Career Development Committee. Dr. Lee has agreed to serve. ACTION: Charles Calhoun and Robert C. Williams should let Jim know if they are not able to serve.

3.4 At least one member from the COPRI CBG should plan to attend the District Council meetings scheduled during the year. The next meeting for District 9 will be in New Orleans on September 24, 2001. ACTION: COPRI Staff to provide schedule of ASCE BOD and District Council Meetings.

3.5 Continuing education courses are starting to be profitable. As we know, the CEM short course has been very successful. ACTION: All committee chairs should continue to think about possible short course topics and work to develop them.

Administrative committees include the Awards, Moffatt-Nichol Panel of Judges, Coastal Engineering Research Council (CERC), Membership, Newsletter and Web, Planning and Coordinating, and Publications.

Tony presented a summary of the Awards Committee (AC) activities.

4.1.1 The purpose of the AC is to encourage and coordinate the recommendation and nomination of Institute members for all ASCE and COPRI awards for which they are eligible. The AC’s charge is to interface with the CBG and facilitate and support (a) the panel members for the John G. Moffatt-Frank E. Nichol Award, (b) the Coastal Engineering Research Council for the International Coastal Engineering (ICE) Award, and (c) the Waterways Committee (WC) with EWRI for the Hans Albert Einstein Award.

4.1.2 Historically, the recipient of the Hans Albert Einstein Award was nominated jointly by the Waterways, Ports, Coastal and Ocean Engineering Division and the Hydraulics Division. These two organizations are now COPRI and EWRI, respectively. The COPRI nominees to the Einstein Award Panel are Ray Montgomery, Clark McNair, and Mark Lindigren. ACTION: Jim should send EWRI the COPRI recommended procedure and list of representatives for joint Einstein Award Committee.

4.1.3 Funding for these three awards are managed by ASCE. As COPRI, we would like to have more of a say in the financial oversight of these awards. COPRI Staff presented a summary of the financial status of these three awards. All have a total balance between $20K to $25K. We believe we can increase the returns on the principals and keep more of the money working for us. ACTION: COPRI Staff will find out track record and history of our three primary awards relative to funding. Transfer funds from "Income/Expense" to "Principal Balance" categories for the ICCE and Moffatt-Nichol Awards, leaving approximately $1,000. Make recommendation to EWRI to do the same for the Einstein Award. Work with Gary and Doug on this.

4.1.4 Several awards were unanimously approved to recognize some of our members for past service to COPRI. Among those who will be recognized are (a) Dr. Billy Edge for his many years of work as Secretary of the CERC, (b) Drs. Ben Gerwick, Robert Wiegel, and Bill Kazokas for their long years of service on the Moffatt-Nichol Award Panel of Judges, (c) Dr. Ole Madsen will receive the ICE award during the Waves ’01 conference, and (d) Dr. Bill Marcuson for his mentorship and leadership with the ASCE BOD in getting COPRI started. Plans are to give this award to him in October at the Houston COPRI meeting. ACTION: COPRI Staff to check on number of years of service and prepare awards for presentation.

Doug reported on the activities of the M&N.

4.2.1 Doug has been revising the procedures and guidelines for the John G. Moffatt-Frank E. Nichol Award. The new procedure will have a panel of judges with 5-year alternating terms. The hope is to have at least one representative from the Coastal Engineering Practice and the Ports committees so that worthy candidates from the coastal and port community are recognized. He has been getting approvals from the sponsors and expects the final version by the end of this year. ACTION: Doug to prepare final version.

Tony presented the summary of CERC.

4.3.1 The CERC puts on the International Conferences on Coastal Engineering (ICCE). Longtime Secretary, Billy Edge retired this year after many years in this office. He will be presented an award (see above) to recognize his many, many, many years of service to ASCE and COPRI! Thanks Billy for a job well done.

4.3.2 The 28th ICCE will be in Cardiff, Wales, on July 7-12, 2002. They will meet during the Waves ’01 conference to evaluate the abstracts.

4.3.3 The 29th ICCE is being organized by Orville Magoon and Ron Nobles for San Diego in 2004.

Patty and Louise reported on the activities of the Membership Committee (MC).

4.4.1 COPRI membership when we started in October 2000 was 1,100 members. As of August 15, 2001, our membership stood at 1,765 members. We have had an increase of 76 members just due to mailings and conference recruitment. Way to go MC!

Dan reported on the activities of the Communications Committee (formerly Newsletter and Web Committee)

4.5.1 The CBG voted to change the name of the "Newsletter and Web Committee" to the "Communications Committee" to better reflect its work with both the COPRI web page and the Newsletter.

4.5.2 The first issue of the new, full-color, COPRI Newsletter "Waterways" is in the mail. Congratulations to Dan and the COPRI Staff for a marvelous first issue.

4.5.3 Dan has revised the COPRI website. It looks very good and Dan was loudly praised for his efforts as Webmaster!

4.5.4 Please send all information for the web site and Newsletter to Kelly. She will act as a clearinghouse and forward to the appropriate persons. ACTION: Kelly will compile a list of all upcoming COPRI and ASCE meetings for the coming year for posting on the web page.

4.5.5 Some of the Institutes have corporate sponsors with links on their Institute web pages to their products. These are a source of revenue that we will investigate. ACTION: Louise and Kelly will get a list of exhibitors from recent conferences as potential sponsors.

Mike presented a summary of the Publications Committee activities.

4.6.1 Dr. Zeki Demirbilek, Editor, has agreed to publish practical papers in the Waterways, Ports, Coastal and Ocean Engineering Journal. His preferred approach is to publish a "special issue" with a guest editor who takes responsibility for the issue. These papers should be peer-reviewed, although not necessarily to the level that the regular papers are reviewed.

4.6.2 Possible sources of papers are selected papers from our conferences. Conference chairs and/or session chairs could recommend papers. We might consider putting some of these on the CE World web page.

Technical committees include the Coastal Engineering Practice, Coastal Zone Management, Ocean Engineering/Wave and Wave Forces, Ports and Harbors, Rubble Mound Structures, Waterways, and Wetlands and River Restoration.

5.1 Coastal Engineering Practice

Louise presented the summary for the Coastal Engineering Practice Committee (CEP).

5.1.1 The short course "Coastal Engineering Manual: A Highlight of Changes from the Shore Protection Manual." was very successful at the Ports ’01 conference. Plans are underway to hold the next one during the Solutions to Coastal Disasters ’02 seminar in San Diego in 2002.

5.1.2 The CEP is working on the manual, Special Report on Advances in Coastal Structure Design, with the OEWWF committee.

Louise presented the report for the Coastal Zone Management Committee (CZM).

5.2.1 The CZM’s next meeting is planned for October 27, 2001, in Hoboken, NJ. They are working on three conferences and a field trip.

5.2.2 The Symposium on Urban Shorelines in October 2001 in Hoboken, NJ, will publish their proceedings through ASCE. The National Shore and Beach Association (NSPBA) organized this meeting, without funding from COPRI.

5.2.3 The Solutions to Coastal Disasters ’02 conference is scheduled for February 24-27, 2002 in San Diego, CA. They have accepted 120 papers.

Jim presented the summary for the Ocean Engineering and Waves and Wave Forces Committee (OEWWF).

5.3.1 The OEWWF is scheduled to meet during the Waves’01 conference in San Francisco. ACTION: Mike will attend this meeting as CBG representative for Jim.

5.3.2 Phil Valent has been an active member of the Waves ’01 organizing committee. In addition to himself, Phil recruited Todd Holland and James Kaihatu as session chairs and raised $5K for an ONR sponsorship for the Waves conference.

5.3.3 Dr. Mohan’s proposed manual, Special Report on Advances in Coastal Structure Design, has been approved with a budget of $500 this fiscal year. This is a joint effort with Orville Magoon, Rubble Mound Committee, and Mark Pirrello, Coastal Practice Committee. All authors have confirmed except for D.D. Davidson. His confirmation is in progress.

5.3.5 If the DIF is successful (and all indications are that it will be), then it would become part of the OEWWF, or visa versa. The goal is to invigorate the OEWWF committee with some new blood and get the Houston offshore community more involved in COPRI and ASCE. The existing OTC subcommittee would still continue to be part of the new committee. The DIF will probably function almost like a local branch within the overall OEWWF committee since they will meet more than twice a year.

5.3.6 The original OEWWF name was a temporary suggestion when the two committees Ocean Engineering and Waves and Wave Forces were combined several years ago. The members of the OEWWF might want to consider a new name that more clearly defines their mission and purpose. A suggestion was made of "Ocean and Offshore Engineering Committee" (OOEC).

Doug gave the summary for the Ports and Harbors Committee (P&H).

5.4.1 The Ports 2001 Conference was very successful with 600 to 650 attendees. It made a very handsome profit that will be used to better serve the COPRI membership for future activities.

2. The Ports 2004 Conference is scheduled for Houston, TX, possibly in conjunction with OTC.

Tony presented information about the Rubble Mound Structures Committee (RMS).

5.5.1 The RMS is co-sponsor with the OEWWF committee of Waves ‘01, also known as the 4th International Symposium on Ocean Wave Measurement and Analysis. It will be held on September 2-6, 2001 in San Francisco, CA. They are expecting about 300 participants and have 50 signed up for the short course before the conference.

2. The Coastal Structures ’03 conference was approved by the CBG.

5.5.3 The subcommittee on the Honolulu Runway Project is meeting in Honolulu to investigate the condition of the Dolos in the long-term protection of the runway.

3. A Workshop on Concrete Armor Units is being planned.

Charlie presented a summary of the Waterways Committee (WWC).

Charlie summarized the activities and plans of the Wetlands and River Restoration Committee (WRR).

5.7.1 The Wetlands Engineering and River Restoration Conference is scheduled for August 27-31, 2001, in Reno, NV. Over 200 papers are to be presented. Sponsors include ASCE, COPRI, and EWRI.

6.1.1 The CBG voted unanimously to amend the ByLaws to allow the CBG to create and dissolve technical and administrative committees as necessary.

6.1.2 The CBG voted unanimously to allow the Oceans Subcommittee on Offshore Technology Conference Support to nominate the COPRI representative to the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Steering Committee.

6.1.3 The CBG discussed the category of "Fellow" grade within COPRI. A "Fellow" in ASCE is not automatically a "Fellow" in COPRI. ACTION: Tony and Doug to provide details on the requirements for selection to COPRI Fellow grade and revise ByLaws as necessary.

6.1.4 The CBG voted to make the COPRI Code of Ethics the same as ASCE. ACTION: Dan will put on the web page.

2. COPRI Budget

Doug conducted a discussion on COPRI budgets for FY01 and FY02

6.2.1 The CBG spent some time discussing and refining next fiscal years budget. We need input from all the chairs on next year’s committee requests. This information will be supplied by the chairs in the 5-year plan template. ACTION: Doug will revise template and send to committee chairs.

6.3.1 The CBG spent some time discussing our major accomplishments and future concerns for the first year of operation. Our successes have included (a) an increase in membership, (b) a self-sustaining and profitable first year, (c) outreach to membership to increase involvement, (d) expanded services including our web page and Waterways Newsletter, and (e) energized committees. Thus, the creation of COPRI has resulted in "value added" to the original Waterways Division membership and ASCE. ACTION: Doug will draft a letter summarizing these ideas for presentation to ASCE BOD.

6.3.2 During the upcoming joint meeting in Houston in October, each committee chair will have 15 minutes to present their committee’s 5-year plan, future activities, and finances. They should plan on making PowerPoint or overhead presentations. The 5-year plan should include their committee’s goals, revenues, and expense projections for the next 5 years. We will use this 5-year plan as the basis for our funding decisions. ACTION: Doug will mail out a letter to committee chairs with templates so that they can prepare in advance for the meeting. Dan will post some of this information on our web page for downloading by committee chairs.

6.3.3 All committees should make sure they always have a plan for succession among officers. Typically, the order is a progression from member to Secretary, Vice-Chair, Chair, and Past-Chair to insure the committee’s "corporate knowledge" is adequately passed on.

6.3.4 As COPRI, our committees do not have "control group" members anymore. It is up to the committee chairs to decide who gets reimbursement from their activity allotments and budgets. Of course, ASCE or COPRI membership is still a requirement for reimbursement. As always, Chairs decide who may become a member of their committee. ACTION: All Committee Chairs should update roosters annually to insure only active members are still included and that information is still accurate.

Bob Silverstein presented a summary of ASCE’s CE World.

6.4.1 ASCE is developing CE World, a web site for ASCE to host the first virtual world congress on civil engineering. He presented an overview of the project, site design, technical development, attendance promotion, and sources of revenue. CE World will be an innovative, unique and technically advanced web site designed to deliver presentations about civil engineering innovations, issues, developments, and projects. It will advance and recognize the role and contributions of civil engineers and complement the celebration of ASCE’s 150th anniversary celebration.

6.4.2 All Institutes, including COPRI, will have "booths" with tracks for promotion of their programs, conferences, publications, bulletin boards, links, etc.

6.4.3 Links with other industry web sites will be provided via cooperative advertising agreements. Revenues will be generated by these virtual tradeshow booths and corporate sponsorships to make CE World self-supporting.

6.4.4 The site will "go live" in July 2002 and be maintained through September 2003. If successful, it will be maintained. A Beta version is available now with an address of ceworld.org.

6.4.5 The CBG initial feelings are to establish tracks listing our upcoming conferences as well as publication of selected papers from several of our conferences. ACTION: Dan will work with Bob on populating these COPRI tracks.

Mike updated the MOU status with IAHR and PIANC.

6.5.1 After several iterations with IAHR, a final version of the IAHR MOU has been approval by the ASCE Legal Department. A photo opportunity of the signing will be set up during the ICCE 2002 in Wales. ACTION: COPRI Staff will draft on official COPRI letterhead, Doug and Gary will sign, and mail to IAHR representative Dr. Phil Liu, for IAHR signatures.

6.5.2 The PIANC MOU is ready for signature. It can be signed in a ceremony in Washington, since both COPRI and PIANC representatives are in the Washington area. ACTION: COPRI Staff will draft on official COPRI letterhead and make arrangements for signing ceremony with PIANC representatives. Doug and Gary will sign for COPRI.

Tony discussed the new National Science Foundation (NSF) Tsunami Facility at Oregon State University (OSU)

6.6.1 The NSF has funded a new tsunami research facility at OSU for the next 14 years. This multi-million dollar research facility has a $4M budget for capital improvements to the existing three-dimensional wavemaker and basin. The facility will receive minimal support for operational costs for the next 14 years, but no new funds for research. The net level of total government funding for coastal engineering research in the United States is only $300K per year. This low level is in spite of the fact that approximately 90 percent of the United States population lives within 100 miles of a coastline and they generate billions of dollars in tourism-related revenues. Tony would like to encourage NSF to fund more research in coastal and ocean engineering as well as tsunamis and long wave modeling. The CBG unanimously approved a letter to the NSF to show our support for increased funding in these critical areas. ACTION: Tony will draft a letter for review at our next meeting.

6.6.2 A good home for this initiative could be COPRI’s Coastal Engineering Research Council (CERC). A Workshop could be proposed to NSF to map out the deficiencies in our current level of funding, our needs for increased research, its importance to our national security and economy, and other benefits to society. ACTION: Tony will develop a plan and discuss with NSF to see if there is grant money to pay for travel costs for a workshop.

Mike discussed a proposal for co-sponsoring a session on long wave and tsunami modeling with the IAHR Congress

6.7.1 The biannual 30th IAHR Congress will be in Thessaloniki, Greece in 2003. In light of the developments above to increase NSF funding for coastal and ocean engineering research, a proposal is being developed to co-sponsor a seminar on long wave and tsunami modeling in conjunction with the 30th IAHR Congress.

6.7.2 During the Waves ’01 conference, a meeting was held to discuss the current status of the NSF facility at OSU and the proposed seminar in Greece. A one-page draft announcement was handed out and discussed at this meeting. There was broad-based interest among the tsunami and coastal engineering community. At this point in time the proposal is being organized through COPRI’s OEWWF committee. Organizing committee members include Costas Synolakis at University of Southern California, Phil Liu at Cornell University, Harry Yeh at University of Washington, Constantine Memos at National Technical University of Athens, and Dr. Mike Briggs at the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). Additional members and details are being arranged. ACTION: Mike to prepare a final proposal for a joint session for the 30th IAHR Congress.

Charlie reported on an opportunity to publish the new Coastal Engineering Manual (CEM)

6.8.1 The Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory of the ERDC is in the process of updating the Shore Protection Manual (SPM). The SPM was last updated in 1984. The new Corps policy is to publish manuals electronically, with no hard copies. Because of its size (over 3,000 pages), it is not likely that the U.S. Government Printing Office will offer a hard copy version either. The Corps electronic version, however, will be offered for free over the Internet. Because a lot of folks would still rather work with paper, it may be possible for COPRI and ASCE to publish some hard copies.

6.8.2 An interactive version has also been developed by Veri-Tech. This version was developed at their own expense with no funds from the government. According to the agreement with the Army Corps, only Corps employees will receive this version for free. The advantages of this version are that the user can do actual calculations with their own data and project requirements, rather than work with prepared examples in the non-interactive version. Veri-Tech has offered to partner with COPRI to offer our members a discount for the purchase of this interactive version. Of course, ASCE would be able to market and sell this Veri-Tech version to non-members as well.

6.8.3 Both the Corps’ electronic and Veri-Tech’s interactive versions will be updated on a regular basis, whereas a paper copy would not be. Technical support will be provided for both versions, with additional user support for the interactive version from Veri-Tech. ACTION: Charlie and Gary to work with the Army Corps about publishing a hard copy and Veri-Tech about selling the interactive version.

7.1 The next meeting will be a joint meeting with our technical and administrative committee chairs in conjunction with the ASCE National Convention and Board of Direction meeting in Houston on Thursday, October 11, 2001. The venue may not necessarily be in downtown Houston, but may be at a more easily accessible site. Action: COPRI Staff will investigate sites, check out hotel space, and make arrangements in conjunction with Doug for the this joint meeting.

The meeting was adjourned at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.

1. Awards. Make new award certificates and/or plaques (as differentiated from plagues) for everyone in COPRI, but especially for:

1. Dr. Billy Edge for his many years of work as Secretary of the CERC. Also, look into something special for his wife Becky (who we suspect did most of the work!). Check on number of years he has served.
2. Drs. Ben Gerwick, Robert Wiegel, and Bill Kazokas for their long years of service on the Moffatt-Nichol Award Panel of Judges. Check on number of years they have served.
3. Bring plaque for Dr. Ole Madsen to the Waves ’01 conference. Check into possibility of $500 Honorarium.
4. Dr. Bill Marcuson for his mentorship and leadership with the ASCE BOD in getting COPRI started. Plan to give to him in October at the Houston COPRI meeting.

2. Award funding. Find out track record and history of our three primary awards relative to funding. Transfer funds from "Income/Expense" to "Principal Balance" categories for the ICCE and Moffatt-Nichol Awards, leaving approximately $1,000. Make recommendation to EWRI to do same for Einstein Award. Work with Gary and Doug on this.

3. Web page.

1. Get list of exhibitors from last couple of conferences by October 2001 meeting in Houston. This list can be a start for possible advertising revenue on the web. Work with Louise.
2. Start a Calendar with postings of committee meetings, conferences, etc for one year in advance. Work with Dan to keep continually updated.

4. October meeting.

1. Investigate meeting locations and hotel for this meeting. Possibilities are the Texas A&M University downtown facility, an airport location, CH2M Hill offices, the ASCE Conference facilities, etc.

5. Waves ’01 Short Course.

1. Bring PDH certificates and Tony’s Notes for course.

5. FEMA Manual Short Course at Coastal Disasters.

1. Get information about grants from FEMA to assist them in presenting manual at other locations including Houston, Florida, and New Orleans. Work with Louise.

5. MOUs.

1. Report on status of PIANC and IAHR MOU’s with ASCE’s lawyers. Compare to EWRI MOU with IAHR.
2. Print out final IAHR MOU for COPRI (i.e., Doug and Gary) signatures and mail to IAHR representatives. Possibility of public signing (i.e., photo op) at Waves ’01 conference. Work with Mike.

5. Code of Ethics.

1. Make COPRI Code of Ethics same as ASCE. Put back "Environmental sustainable development."

9. DIF.

1. Communications Committee. Change name from "News Correspondent" to "Communications Committee". Even though he will still be a committee of one doing all the fabulous work for our web pages, at least he will think he has a committee of many volunteers!

2. Code of Ethics. Add to ByLaws on web and in Newsletter.

3. ByLaw Changes. Place recommended changes on web pages and in Newsletter. Place ballot so members can vote on these changes.

4. CE World. Link new CE World web page to COPRI web page. Post 6 to 10 "selected" papers from recent COPRI conferences as "COPRI track".

5. DIF. Put invitational letter on web along with calendar of events. A December meeting is planned for a talk on the new NaKika offshore facility.

1. Web pages. Check web pages for errors, omissions, etc and get list to Dan for correction by end of August. Send to Staff for forwarding to Dan.

2. Committee Rosters. Update committee rosters by end of August.