Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Minutes of WDC 20 Date: October 29, 2010 Location: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Montreal Canada Members present: Kathy Mullet, Oregon State University; Eulanda Sanders, Colorado State University; Juyeon Park, Colorado State University; Adriana Petrova, Oklahoma State University; Sonya Meyer, University of Wyoming. Also in attendance: Semra Peksoz, member of NC170, Oklahoma State University The following officers were selected: Sonya Meyer: Chair, Juyeon Park: Chair-elect, and Kathy Mullet: Secretary Sonya explained the development of the Multi-Sate Research Project and the reason for selecting wildfire protective gear. Four states were represented at the meeting and plan to be active participants in the project. The states are Wyoming, Oregon, Colorado and Oklahoma, thus satisfying the project requirements of multi states' involvement. Discussion was centered on due dates and establishing a timeline for completion of the work. The following timeline and responsible party was established based on the final due date of the proposal. November 15, 2010: Justification draft - Sonya Meyer and Bruce Cameron December 5, 10, or 15: Conference call or Skpye discussion of proposal - all participants Objectives: Juyeon Park Methods and Measurements: Kathy Mullet January 30, 2011: rough draft submitted to all participants March 15, 2011: Peer Review - Administrative Advisor, Dr. Bret Hess May 15, 2011: Final Submission to WRC Next plan of action includes a review of the NC170, Personal Protective Technologies for Current and Emerging Occupational Hazards proposal to determine the issues that need to be addressed and how the committee can develop their proposal. Also, the exact date of the December meeting will be determined, in which the proposal will be discussed.

The committee agreed to pursue the development of a Multi-state Research Project for the purpose of evaluating comfort and use issues of wildland firefighter's protective clothing and a writing committee was formed. Writing tasks were assigned divided among the stations. University of Wyoming will be developing the justification and literature review, Colorado State will be revising the project objectives (since the October 29 meeting there has been a change in committee membership and Oklahoma State is now refining the project objectives), and Oregon State will identify appropriate methodology and measurements to meet the objectives.