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UASC Members:

Sorry for the short notice, but this month's meeting is TOMORROW, Wednesday June 27th, on the 8th floor of the Helix building, 310 S. Racine at Jackson.  Refreshments will start at 6:30, business at 7:00, and the speaker at approximately 8:00.  Afterwards we will probably continue our discussions at Ricobene's.

This month's speaker is Mark Gleason, Director of Education and Chief Marine Scientist for the Great Lakes Naval Memorial and Museum in Muskegon, Michigan.  Mark is an ROV specialist, having conducted ROV operations to at least 2000 feet in the middle east on both oil rigs and dive boats.  Mark has also developed educational programs as Chief Marine Scientist for the Denis Sullivan out of Discovery World in Milwaukee and as an Adjunct Faculty member at Grand Valley State University, and as the Director for the Isle Royale Institute at Michigan Tech University in Houghton, MI.

We plan to bring Mark back for a hands-on training course in ROV production and use later in the year, so this month's meeting will be the perfect opportunity to discuss with him exactly what we want in a course, and when we should schedule it.

As usual, if you have any items you would like placed on the meeting agenda, please e-mail me and let me know.

See you tomorrow,

John

Wednesday April 25^th

Helix Photo Building, 310 S. Racine, 8^th Floor

Refreshments at 6:30, Business at 7:00, Speaker at 8:00

Tom Lutz, Author



THOMAS J. LUTZ

Born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Thomas Lutz studied architecture at the University of Minnesota receiving his degree in 1972. He joined the Minnesota Historical Society, eventually becoming head of the historic sites survey program. In 1975, he joined the Midwest Office of the National Trust for Historic Preservation at Chicago becoming assistant director, before leaving in 1979 to return to Red Wing, Minnesota. There he spearheaded a two-year community-wide revitalization effort before rejoining the National Trust in Washington, DC, where he joined the National Main Street Center in 1981. In1987, he became a private consultant for local and regional, community and economic development programs, taking retirement in 2000 as executive director of the non-profit Economic Development Corporation of Cass County, Minnesota.

Read more: UASC April 2012 Meeting

Come check out the latest images added to our website. 

• Research and Discovery of Great Lakes Shipwrecks Workshop - Presented by Brendon Bailord
• 2012 SCUBA Competition
• March 2012 Meeting
• February 2012 Meeting
• January 2012 Meeting

 

Special thanks to Chet Childs and Dan Kasberger for the great pictures.

Written by: John T. Bell

The March meeting of UASC will be held on Wednesday March 28th, with refreshments starting at 6:30, business at 7:00, and our featured speaker, Architect Jeanne Gang, at 8:00, on the 8th floor of the Helix Building, 310 S. Racine.

UASC members will recognize Ms. Gang's work primarily as the architect behind the Chicago Park Districts plans for potentially expanding Northerly Island to the east, forming a small enclosed lagoon for shore diving surrounded by a series of small islands connected by bridged walkways.  Surveying the underwater conditions there was a project that several UASC members helped ICSSD with this past summer.  Another of her noted local accomplishments is the Aqua Tower, a somewhat "wavy" building along the Chicago River at Wacker Drive.  In addition, she is very active in revitalizing the Chicago River area, having written several books on the subject.

Jeanne's official bio follows, and you can learn even more about our March speaker and her work at http://www.studiogang.net/

Bio

Visionary architect and MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang is the founder and principal of Studio Gang Architects, a Chicago-based collective of architects, designers, and thinkers whose projects confront pressing contemporary issues. Driven by curiosity, intelligence, and radical creativity, Jeanne has produced some of today’s most innovative and award-winning architecture. The transformative potential of her work is exemplified by such recent projects as the Aqua Tower (named the 2009 Emporis Skyscraper of the Year), Northerly Island framework plan, Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo, and Columbia Colleg

e Chicago’s Media Production Center.

Jeanne seeks to answer questions that lie locally (site, culture, people) and resound globally (density, climate, sustainability) through her architecture. Her designs are rooted in both architectural form and idea-driven content to make a compelling whole, and she often arrives at design solutions through investi

Jeanne’s work has been honored and exhibited widely, most notably at the International Venice Biennale, MoMA, the National Building Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. A distinguished graduate of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, she has taught at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and IIT, where her studios have focused on cities, ecologies, materials, and technologies. Reveal, her first volume on Studio Gang’s work and working process, was released in 2011 from Princeton Architectural Press.gations and collaborations across disciplines.