Title:  New Map of the Nearby Universe: The 2MASS Redshift Survey

 Abstract:  Almost a decade and a half ago a project was proposed
to map the nearby Universe in the near infrared.  This project is
now called 2MASS, the Two Micron All-Sky Survey, and the final
photometric all-sky maps are about to be released.  The 2MASS
redshift survey has as its primary goals the measurement the $\Omega_{\bf
Matter}$, and the detection of the mass concentrations responsible
for our motion w.r.t. the Cosmic Microwave Background, basically
to measure the distribution and quantity of Dark Matter in the local
universe.  The first phase of the 2MRS, a complete redshift survey 
of the brightest 25,000 galaxies, is nearly completed.  The Near-IR
properties of galaxies make our survey an ideal way map mass.