NCSL Board of Directors Meeting Highlights January 2002

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NCSL International Report to the SIM General
Assembly Santiago, Chile - October, 2002 Ed
Nemeroff Vice President, International Affairs
1800 30th St. Suite 305B Boulder Colorado, 80301
USA Tel [phone] FAX [phone] e-mail
info_at_ncsli.org Web Site http//www.ncsli.org
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2002 Annual Conference San Diego, California
August, 2002
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Conference Highlights

• 130 Sessions
• 48 Committee Meetings
• 12 Tutorials
• 115 Exhibitors
• 1400 Attendees

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Conference Highlights

• Keynote Speakers
• Dr. Andrew Wallard, BIPM
• Dr. Hector Nava James, CENAM
• Signed letter of Intent with BIPM
• Signed letter of Intent with EUROMET

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Conference Highlights

• Training
• Region/Section Coordinators
• Committee Chairs
• Interaction/Communication

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Conference Highlights

• Wildhack Award Winner - Howard Castrup,
  Integrated Sciences Group
• Best Paper - Arthur Reichmuth, Mettler Toledo
• High Capacity Mass Dissemination with Four
  Position Mass Comparator

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Board Meeting Highlights

• Executive Committee to meet with NIST, NRC/INMS
  and CENAM this fall
• Adopting new LRP and Budget at October BOD
  meeting
• Potential Dues Increase Being Considered -
  January 31, 2003

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Board Re-Organized

• Tony Anderson - ILAC Liaison Delegate -
  non-voting member
• Jack Ferris to replace Tony as Standards Policy
  VP
• Woody Tramel to replace Jack as Industrial
  Programs VP

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Board Re-Organized

• Jeff Taylor to replace Woody as SE Division VP
• Derek Porter appointed to replace Jeff as Western
  Division VP
• Seton Bennett, NPL, United Kingdom, appointed as
  the EUROMET rep to the NCSLI Board

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NMIs , International Organizations NCSL Board
Representation
NRC Representative Canada Gary Hysert
NIST Representative USA Dr. Richard Kayser
CENAM Representative Mexico Dr. Salvador
Echeverria-Villagomez
SIM Representative Dr. Joao Alziro Herz da
Jornada
BIPM Representative Dr. Andrew Wallard
EUROMET Representative Dr. Seton Bennett, NPL
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35 National Metrology Institutes are NCSL Members

• Argentina
• Belgium
• Brazil
• Chile
• Canada
• Czech Republic
• Ecuador
• Egypt
• England
• Greece
• Hong Kong
• India

• Ireland
• Israel
• Jamaica
• Japan
• Kazakhstan
• Korea
• Kyrgyzstan
• Malaysia
• Mexico
• Mongolia
• Netherlands
• Norway

• Republic of China
• Saudi Arabia
• South Africa
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Tajikistan
• Thailand
• Trinidad
• Turkey
• United States
• St. Lucia
• Uruguay

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All New members receive a membership Plaque
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All New members receive a library of NCSL
publications A series of Reference material
Training Directory, Directory of Standards
Laboratories, Acronym and Glossary Lists,
National Measurement Requirements Report, etc.
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Recommended Practices (RPs) A series of how to
manuals Cal Intervals, Cal Procedures, Laboratory
Design, Equipment Evaluation Guide, Cal Lab
Capabilities Documentation, Reports
Certificates of Calibrations, Computer Systems in
Metrology, etc.
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Recommended Intrinsic Standard Practices
(RISPs) Detailed information on establishing and
maintaining intrinsic standards Josephson Voltage
Standard, Triple Point of Water Cell, Quantized
Hall Resistance, Piston Gage, Catalogue of
Intrinsic Derived Standards
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Uncertainty Workshops Planned

• November 13th - Dallas
• November 14th - LA/Orange County
• Two in winter
• Two in spring
• Other topics for workshops?

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NCSLI News

• 5 New Interlaboratory Comparisons
• 174 Writing Committee reports that both Z540-1
  and Z540-2 will be reaffirmed
• NMRC (National Measurement Requirements Committee
  
• new focus and direction

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NCSLI News - SIM
Translation of the NCSLI Newsletter into Spanish
as well as Technical Documents. Hold NCSLI
Board of Directors meeting in Mexico in October,
2003 Regional NCSLI meeting in Jamaica in May,
2003 NCSL attended the Mexican Metrology Seminar
that was held May 2002.
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2003 Conference Tampa Bay, Florida August 17-21

• Theme From State-of-the-Art to the Shop Floor
• CEUs
• Tutorials
• Committee Meetings
• Exhibitors

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NCSL and SIM Enhancing the Future of Metrology
in the Americas