BLM USGS VOLUNTEER

[GEO]

Temporarily unavailable but will be back soon.
You now have to go through the
http://www.usafreedomcorps.gov
but here is the link:
http://www.usgs.gov/ohr/

ON THE FREEDOM CORPS WEB SITE TOP LEFT HAND CORNER
CLICK: FOR VOLUNTEERS
A NEW PAGE WILL OPEN,IN THE LEFT MARGIN CLICK:
RECORD OF SERVICE
ANOTHER PAGE WILL OPEN CLICK:
CLICK HERE

THEN CREATE YOUR RECORD OF SERVICE.

IN GROUPS JOIN GROUP CODE
JVL-887F

YOUR CERTIFYING ORGINAZATION IS CODE
XTL-4636
THIS IS ALSO THE ROS CODE.

SORRY FOR THE CONFUSION

[GEO]

HAS ANYONE FOUND TROUBLE GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS LAID OUT ABOVE?
IF SO LET ME KNOW.

[arkansas_stickerdude]

It all worked great for me.

[LadyEngineer]

Worked fine for me too. So how does the work exactly? Are we logging our time for finding bench marks? We can count that as public service while doing a hobby we're all addited too? Sounds fishy to me. :?

[GEO]

You are "VOLUNTEERING"your time and expertice.
I log the recovered marks to the NGS as well as the Geocaching page,I am the BLM USGS mapper for my area(volunteer).
It states any volunteer activity related to Youth,Parks and Open Spaces,Computers and Technology,Safety and Security. and on and on.
We all do volunteer work and have never logged it any where except in our mind.
This is a chance to do it for the Nation and keep track.
And get a Service award(s) from the President of the United States.
This is an Honor to me I have recieved the ,Bronze,Silver and Gold and am working on the Lifetime.
How many times do you ever get a chance like this,no matter who the President is,it is from the President and a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Thanks for joining you do make a difference.

[LadyEngineer]

Okay Geo, I have some questions:

1) who/what do you enter for service activity or organization name?

2) General area of service should be Parks and Open Spaces....right?

3) Specific Area of service should be...............................

4) What do you put in description of service?
Would this do: Search and recover USGS benchmark locations.

Thanks,

LE

[GEO]

Okay Geo, I have some questions:

1) who/what do you enter for service activity or organization name?
1.SW MISSOURI GEOCACHERS

2) General area of service should be Parks and Open Spaces....right?
2.YES

3) Specific Area of service should be...............................
3. COMPUTERS AND TECHNOLOGY (OR OTHERS IF YOU DO THEM).

4) What do you put in description of service?
Would this do: Search and recover USGS benchmark locations.
4. I PUT RECOVERED CX1690,DID NOT FIND GG0052 ETC. FOR PUBLISHED MARKS PUT FOR GEOCACHING(NGS).
FOR OTHER BENCHMARKS NOT LISTED PUT,
SW MISSOURI GEOCACHERS OR ARKANSAS GEOCACHERS ASSOCIATION.
Thanks,

LE

[GEO]

NATIONAL MAP CORPS VOLUNTEERS

http://nationalmap.gov/TheNationalMapCorps/

[arkansas_stickerdude]

Geo on our Benchmarks do we need to log them somewhere other than GC.com?

[GEO]

Yes that way there is a record of what you did,but even that is not mandatory.
I would do it as professional as possible and If you like you can log them at the NGS site.
I do the Traingulation and Historic ones and some of the others to NGS.
Just what you think is best to CYA.

[arkansas_stickerdude]

whats the ngs site?

[GEO]

whats the ngs site?


http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/FORMS_PROCESSING-cgi-bin/recvy_entry_www.prl

OUR ANGENCY IS
OTHER

OUR APPROVED AGENCY CODE IS
GEOCAC

MAKE SURE AND CHECK THE LATEST RECOVERY INFORMATION HERE BEFORE SUBMITTING.
IT MAY HAVE ALREADY BEEN UPDATED.
http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl

[arkansas_stickerdude]

Thanks for all the info on the chat room GEO I need to start logging all the time I've put in.

[GEO]

Your welcome ASD,my pleasure.
I am glad to see your aprreciation.
I have never recieved anything Presidential before and I want to share the feeling with others that have the same intersts in life.
If we get an award for it all the better especially one from the President. who ever he is.

Keep up the good work.

[oenavigator]

:D