Channel: Trent Keenan
Todd Horton, PLS presents a conversation about Survey Boot Camps. Technician
https://mentoringmondays.xyz/
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Presentation by Logan Campbell from Aerotas
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History & Proper Procedures of Surveying for the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway presented by Aaron Leach, PLS
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Channel: Trent Keenan
In this episode we’re excited to welcome the YSN Committee as they introduce their new mentoring program designed to foster growth, connection, and professional development. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about how this initiative can support the land surveying community.
https://mentoringmondays.xyz/
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In this presentation, Trent Keenan, PLS and owner of Diamondback Land Surveying, gives key strategies that have helped him guide and grow his company over the past 17 years.
https://mentoringmondays.xyz/
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Channel: Trent Keenan
In this Mentoring Mondays session, Jacob Heck, PLS, guides us through a presentation of 'Time-Dependent Coordinates in the Modernized NSRS.'
https://mentoringmondays.xyz/
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Avoid Being Precisely Wrong, Vaguely Right, and Other Taboos During Boundary Retracements. Presented by Ronald Nelms, PLS
https://mentoringmondays.xyz/
Video length: 1:39:42
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Presented by Dane Courville, PLS
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Presentation on Equipment Care (What is the importance of a calibrated Robotic or GNSS Rod?), Presented by Marty Crook - Monsend Engineering
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Channel: the GEOHOLICS
Ep 265 Drones in surveying
#dronesurvey #dronesinsurveying #thegeoholics #thegeoholicspodcast #beageoholic #thegeoholicsshorts #addvalue #makefriends
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GIS is a must-have skill for today’s archaeologists. Full convo on The Geoholics 🎙️
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Episode 267 is a masterclass in discipline, faith, leadership, and next-level surveying as the Geoholics crew sits down with Dillon Harp—a surveyor whose journey started at just 16 years old and has led him to become a nationally respected leader in the profession.
Born on Carswell Air Force Base and raised with a strong sense of structure and service, Dillon shares how early exposure to hard work, responsibility, and mentorship shaped his approach to both surveying and leadership. From cutting his teeth in his dad’s survey company to earning his RPLS at the age of 23, Dillon’s story is one of focus, humility, and relentless growth.
The conversation dives deep into his dual academic and hands-on education, the value of learning the profession from the ground up, and how those early field lessons still guide how he leads teams today as Director of Survey Operations for Energy & Power. Dillon also breaks down advanced topics like gradient boundary surveys, LSLS projects, and CFedS certification, offering real-world advice for young surveyors who want to push beyond the basics and specialize.
Beyond the technical side, this episode hits hard on purpose and service. Dillon opens up about his faith, his commitment to being a servant leader, and his passion for giving back through TSPS involvement and student outreach. Recognition like being named TSPS Young Surveyor of the Year is discussed not as an endpoint—but as a responsibility to lift others up and leave the profession better than he found it.
Dillon caps it all off by sharing the one piece of advice he’d give his 16-year-old self standing on that first survey crew—wisdom earned through years of experience, mistakes, and growth.
Another episode that reminds us surveying isn’t just a job—it’s a calling, a craft, and a community.
Music by Alan Jackson!!
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The Geoholics LIVE Episode 271 - The Legendary Marc Goldman with ESRI
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Stratigraphy in Archaeology Quiz Time!! #thegeoholics #thegeoholicspodcast #beageoholic #thegeoholicsshorts
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In this episode of The Geoholics Podcast, the crew dives deep—both literally and figuratively—into the world of archaeology, GIS, and cultural resource management with special guest Jenna Kent, Archaeologist at Jacobs Engineering Group.
From growing up across Texas, Mississippi, Utah, and Hawaii as part of a military family, to excavating 7th-century monasteries and 12th-century abbeys in Ireland, Jenna’s journey has been anything but ordinary. That geographic diversity helped shape her appreciation for landscapes, cultures, and the human stories hidden beneath them.
The conversation explores what archaeology really looks like beyond the movies—balancing rugged fieldwork with complex office analysis—and why cultural resource compliance is far more technical, analytical, and geospatially driven than most people realize.
Listeners get an inside look at:
-Prehistoric ceramic replication and how recreating ancient pottery reveals insights no textbook ever could
-Surveying 15 miles of wilderness at Bandelier National Monument, one of Jenna’s career-defining projects
-How archaeologists decode fragmented evidence like a massive puzzle with missing pieces
-The growing role of GIS in archaeology, including site density modeling, probability mapping, and interactive story maps
-Where surveyors, mappers, LiDAR professionals, and archaeologists can collaborate more effectively
-The powerful human moments that remind us archaeology is ultimately about people—not artifacts
Jenna closes the episode with thoughtful advice for young professionals looking to enter archaeology, cultural resources, or GIS—encouraging curiosity, patience, and a willingness to embrace both science and storytelling.
This episode is a reminder that whether you’re mapping terrain, scanning infrastructure, or excavating history—context matters, layers matter, and collaboration across disciplines makes us all better.
Song of the Week: “New Orleans Is Sinking” by The Tragically Hip
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Ep 265 Eagles 70s rock legends
#music #eagles #rocklegend #thegeoholics #thegeoholicspodcast #beageoholic #thegeoholicsshorts #addvalue #makefriends
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Ep 258 Syracuse winters vs toddler parenting
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This one’s got HEART.
In Episode 266 of The Geoholics, we sit down with Dustin Gardner, PLS—a guy who somehow combined American literature, math, criminal justice, surveying, fatherhood, service, and storytelling into one damn good life.
From San Diego roots to EV infrastructure projects…From survey outreach and historical preservation to mentoring foster youth…From fishing with his son to writing books that challenge how we think about purpose…
Dustin is living proof that surveying isn’t just lines, points, and coordinates—it’s context, character, and contribution.
We talk career moments that make you stop and say “I belong here”, why teaching the next generation matters, how storytelling and surveying are basically cousins, and what it means to build a legacy that goes way beyond the job title.
This episode will:-Inspire you-Ground you-Remind you why you got into this profession-And probably make you call a mentor you haven’t talked to in a while
Hit play. Trust us.
Music by Waylon Jennings!
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Ep 264 The 3 rules of business
#business #3rulesofbusiness #surveying #thegeoholics #thegeoholicspodcast #beageoholic #thegeoholicsshorts #addvalue #makefriends
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Gavin talks about transitioning to online programs amidst the COVID-19 event with guest Corryn Greenawalt, Surveying Program Director at Flathead Valley Community College (https://www.fvcc.edu/programs/natural-sciences-mathematics-engineering-surveying/surveying).
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Dr. James Selevan talks on preparing our transportation infrastructure for autonomous/assisted navigation – Pi-Variables INC. pi-lit.com
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xyHt magazine editor Gavin Schrock, PLS, interviews Alexis Hannah Smith, the founder and CEO of IMGeospatial. Her company creates data intelligence products via machine learning, artificial intelligence, automatic feature extraction, and remote-sensed data for multiple industries, globally. It won the 2019 Geospatial World Startup of the Year award.
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Amr’s novel use of BIM—often meshed for the first time ever with technologies such as drone mapping, virtual reality, mixed reality, laser scanning and more—helped make him the first U.S. citizen to receive this honor.
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Gavin and Joseph answer reader questions with geospatial figure Dr. Joseph Kerski–distinguished geographer, author, and educator.
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John Hamilton PLS, is a surveyor in Pennsylvania that does geodetic, monitoring, and engineering surveying all over the world, including work with Engineers Without Borders (EWB). He talks about some of his latest projects in Ecuador, where he used the RTX precise point positioning service with his GNSS rover on an EWB project to bring water to a remote village high in the Andes.
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Growing your surveying and geospatial mobile data and communications skills and tools with Michael Dix
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The geospatial world is not slowing down, in fact, it is expanding–this conversation with a university professor and GPS expert demonstrates the greater need for geodetic control in modern society - https://bad-elf.com/
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Frank Relou, European Business Development Manager at Sea Machines, talks about his company’s new autonomous technology for marine vehicles and its impact on surveying and mapping ocean waters.
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Joe Paiva discusses trends in distance learning for surveying and geospatial professionals. geo-learn.com - [email protected]
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Dr Jane Cooke hails from Tonbridge, Kent, a small town approximately an hours drive south East of London England, but now lives in Victoria Australia where she is the National Technical support and training manager for the geospatial division at CR Kennedy. She wanted to be a town planner, but began her career in the geospatial industry by completing her degree in Environmental Science and working in various voluntary positions surveying volcanoes around the world, This led to a PhD in Volcanology & post doctorate in geological hazard monitoring. She has since worked for Lecia Geosystems in the UK before moving to Australia to work with CR Kennedy. Jane is an avid reader and enjoys time outdoors camping & as she puts it, walking long distances. With a unique perspective on the differences between Aussie & English Surveyors & losing the battle on Scale factors…. A great listen to how Surveying & Spatial is used in the monitoring of Landslides & Volcanoes. You can find Jane on: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-cooke-197442/ You can contact me at: www.petacox.com Podcast Support Defining Boundaries: https://www.patreon.com/PetaCox @definingboundaries @surveygeekgirl www.linkedin.com/in/peta-cox Music by Paul Greene https://www.instagram.com/greenepaul/ Red Shelf Records/Sounds Delicious Australia https://www.instagram.com/soundsdeliciousaustralia/
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Braydon Smith, who is also known to his mates as CharlieB, is a Surveyor by mentoring & experience, who has over 10 years of experience in the industry. He is a Queensland boy, born & bred who loves the outdoors. He is a country boy at heart who enjoys his time away from the city near the ocean or the trees. He is currently working at Vision Surveys completing all types of surveys from details to setouts to FIFO (Fly In, Fly Out) work in the country towns. Braydon began his working life completing an apprenticeship as a fabricator. By chance, he scored a job as a field hand through a family member, not really knowing much about surveying at all. Since then he hasn't looked back. With some great stories from his early years of old survey marks, great surveyors to the snakes, spiders & wild dogs. You'll enjoy this chat with my Mate CB.
You can find Charlie on:
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/braydon-smith-a37647b4/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/that_aussie_surveyor/
You can contact me at:
www.petacox.com
Podcast Support Defining Boundaries: https://www.patreon.com/PetaCox
@definingboundaries
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Music by Paul Greene https://www.instagram.com/greenepaul/
Red Shelf Records/Sounds Delicious Australia https://www.instagram.com/soundsdeliciousaustralia/
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Sliding doors and two seconds of separation lay between my guest this week and myself.
Digital Data was deeply discussed in this episode. My guest, Brett Casson, who is the Senior Principal Major Projects, Autodesk Australia was born in Tamworth, before moving to Jervis Bay, actually Huskisson... (YES MY HOME TOWN, well right next door!!!) before completing his HSC at Shoalhaven High (YES MY HIGH SCHOOL, we would have even caught the school bus together...) began his career in Canberra in 1993 while completing his Associate Diploma of Surveying at Canberra Institute of Technology. Working in Canberra before moving to the big smoke (Sydney) to gain more experience in the surveying industry.
We talk about where his career took him traveling across the world and meet some very interesting people and projects. About lifelong learning, helping people and what it’s like working with companies to help streamline and embed Autodesk products into the business. The importance of Cloud based storage. Working globally managing time zones, accents, and how we harness the data and manage the assets.
Data sharing, Data storage, Custodians, Digital efficiencies, and reform were discussed along with a Co-ordination approach of all agencies for procurement methodologies for information standards.
He love to spend quality down time with his wife & two girls as well as playing golf and riding his ummm nice bikes!
And I want to know do robots dream of electric sheep? Have you ever read that book???
This episode proudly supported by E1 Pool Certifiers https://www.e1poolcertifier.com/
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Ozdetect https://ozdetect.com.au/
You can find Brett
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brett-casson/
You can contact me at: https://www.petacox.com
Podcast Support Defining Boundaries: https://www.patreon.com/PetaCox
@definingboundaries: https://www.instagram.com/definingboundaries/?hl=en
@surveygeekgirl: https://www.instagram.com/surveygeekgirl/?hl=en
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peta-cox
Music by Paul Greene: https://www.instagram.com/greenepaul/
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Trent talks about his path into the Surveying profession, and encourages those (including his daughter) who wish to be the next generation of surveyors to “learn a lot, and take your time” through the various steps required for licensure, and to never stop learning. He is a proponent of the 4-year degree plus experience requirement.
Trent also discusses his passion for mentoring, and the Mentoring Mondays sessions he hosts.
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Our final episode in our series featuring chats with FIG Young Surveyors from the recent FIG Working Week 2024 in Accra, Ghana is Angela Anykora from Nigeria and Roshni Sharma from Australia. They joined Tim Burch to chat about the Working Week and how the FIG Young Surveyors are engaging with the profession around the world. We were joined by Rosario Casanova, a surveying professor from Uruguay and Kwabena Asiama, former Chair of the FIG YSN and current Commission 8 Chair from Ghana. A lively conversation that features lots of topics yet captures the overall comradery of the Young Surveyors. This was a great way to wrap up our trip to Ghana, so check out our conversations from all our episodes today!
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Joe Fenicle shares with host Curt Sumner his experiences/adventures in surveying, and recently “going home” to join the faculty of the surveying program at the University of Akron.
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Continuing with our interviews with the NSPS 2026 Election candidates, this week's episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" introduces Anthony "Rich" Vannozzi, PLS, candidate for Vice President. Our host, Tim Burch, recently sat down with Rich to chat about his career in surveying AND education. From his time in the private sector to going back to his roots and alma mater (University of Maine) to teach the next generation of geospatialists, Rich shares his journey and why formal education is a critical part of our beloved profession's future. A great conversation, so check out this informative episode today!
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Curt Sumner, Executive Director, NSPS, had three separate interviews with the candidates for Vice President in the upcoming NSPS Elections. All three candidates shared their background and views on what makes a successful organization and can help you to decide how you will vote.
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This episode of “Surveyor Says!” unveils our latest series, “Future Focus” and our guest today is Kory Allred, a PLS, Ph.D. and Program Director of the Surveying Program at Parkland College in Champaign, IL.
Kory shares his story on how he entered the profession, what led him to pursue and obtain his doctorate, and what he thinks about what our next generation of surveyors will need to know to succeed.
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This episode of “Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast” highlights the Trig-Star program with a conversation with Jerry Juarez, Chair of the Trig-Star Committee. He recently sat down with Tim Burch to talk about the history of the program, how it works with local surveyors and schools, and the latest advancement in online testing for the competitions. Jerry shared his “sales pitch” to educators and administrators of the how the program shows the students real world applications of higher-level math. He also talks about the prize money for local, state, and national winners. Jerry also discusses scholarship opportunities for students who continue into surveying-based curriculum at colleges and universities.
If you are interested in giving back to students through surveying, then Trig-Star is your answer! For more information, go to trig-star.com for more information. And stay tuned for more great episodes of “Surveyor Says!” The NSPS Podcast.
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Curt’s conversation for this “Future Focus” episode with Jared covers how distance learning from online university programs are the future of the profession and helping to maintain our “essential service” status.
Thanks for joining us for another “Future Focus” here on this episode of “Surveyor Says!”
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This episode of “Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast” features interviews with Jeanette Harley, Heather Kennan, and Eric Salovich, the candidates for NSPS Young Surveyors Network (YSN) Secretary in the upcoming 2022 Election. All three young entrepreneurs sat down recently to chat with NSPS President-Elect Tim Burch about goals for the YSN, the importance of a strong relationship between the Young Surveyors and the NSPS Board of Directors, and what each of them sees coming up with the future of surveying.
The Young Surveyors Network represents a bright future ahead for the profession and these two candidates are prime examples of those leaders. Thank you for listening to this episode of “Surveyor Says!” The NSPS Podcast and look for ballots for the 2022 NSPS Young Surveyors Network election cycle to be announced soon.
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"Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" is coming to you on location again! This time, we have traveled to Cal Poly Pomona to meet with the NSPS Student Chapter during their annual conference and exhibition. Tim Burch spent a bit of time with the enthusiastic group as they discussed the program, how they all "found" surveying, and what it is like to survey in sunny SoCal. Lots of great banter and comradery with this bunch, so load it up and have a listen!
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