CURRENT ACTIVITIES

The ASPRS Foundation currently funds the following Awards and Scholarships given annually by ASPRS:

• Talbert Abrams Award
• Robert E. Altenhofen Memorial Scholarship
• John I. Davidson President’s Award for Practical Papers
• William A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship
• Kenneth J. Osborn Memorial Scholarship
• Ta Liang Memorial Award
• Paul R. Wolf Memorial Scholarship
• Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship
• Brock Gold Medal
• Student Travel Grants
• Francis H. Moffitt Memorial Scholarship
• Abraham Anson Memorial Scholarship
• John O. Behrens Institute for Land Information (ILI) Memorial Scholarship

The Foundation is the depository for annual corporate contributions for the following Awards and Scholarships:

• BAE Systems Best Student Paper Award
• Boeing Award for Best Paper in Image Analysis and Interpretation
• The ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper in GIS
• KODAK International Educational Literature Award
• ERDAS (Formerly Lieca Geosystems) Award for Best Scientific Paper in Remote Sensing
• SAIC/Estes Memorial Teaching Award
• Intergraph Scholarship

The Foundation is also the depository for contributions for the following Grant:

• PBS Film "The Evolution of Modern Mapping"

The Foundation Board of Trustees is currently analyzing the total funding level required to fully endow the awards and scholarships at present levels. The current estimate is that approximately $660,000 will be required to reach that interim goal. The Foundation balance as of the end of 2007 was approximately $500,000.

ASPRS has set aside funds from the Society’s reserves to match individual ASPRS member and Region contributions to the Foundation.