NSPS Government Affairs Consultant John Palatiello and NSPS Lobbyist JB Byrd join host Curt Sumner to review the successes NSPS has enjoyed during its 2020 legislative and federal agency outreach.
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Happy National Surveyor’s Week!
Our guest this week is Galen Scott from the National Geodetic Survey (NGS). As the Constituent Resources Manager, Galen is involved with many of the tools and programs going on within NGS. He chatted recently with Tim Burch about the GPS on Benchmarks program and how important having crowdsourced data is for completing the geoid base for the 2022 datum changes. Galen also announced the new features to the OPUS programs, including a simplified way for bluebooking significant control stations AND the feature to upload RTK data to incorporate with your OPUS solutions. Lots of great stuff coming out of Silver Spring!
This is the first in a new series with Galen and lots of great things from NGS so stay tuned for even more! Thanks again for listening to “Surveyor Says!” The NSPS Podcast.
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As we begin our year-end run into the holidays, we are proud to introduce our new newsletter, “Surveyor Says! The NSPS Bulletin” to our members and all those interested in the latest news and happenings within our association orbit. This premiere issue introduces the reader to the content and goals of the newsletter as well as sharing the up-to-date happenings within our association business.
Candidate Bios and Town Hall Schedules for the upcoming Officer Elections FIG Working Week 2023 conference information ·2023 Student Competition – Outline of ActivitiesNSPS will be publishing the Bulletin on a quarterly basis (January, April, July, and October) as a direct mailing to all our members. (Check your SPAM and Junk folders for future correspondence.) Please share this newsletter and link to anyone who has an interest in the surveying and geospatial professions as it is (and will remain) free to readers everywhere.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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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 week’s recording marks the 200th episode of the “Surveyor Says!” podcast and rather than look back at where we have been, we decided to look ahead to the future of surveying. And who better to have as our guests than the current Young Surveyors Network officers, Nolan Mark, President, Cam Lowe, Vice President, and Spencer McCutcheon, Secretary.
They were all gracious enough to take some time out of their busy schedules to talk with me about what is going on right now in the profession, what are the positives we have going for us, and what the future of surveying looks like from their perspective.
A great conversation you do not want to miss!
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Chalk up another great conversation with a true role model! Our chat this week for Episode 99 of “Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast” is with Virginia Winberg, a PLS from the Land of 10,000 Lakes, (Minnesota, for those who don’t know that tidbit). Tim Burch sat down with Virginia to talk about her involvement in the Women’s Survey Summit AND the Future Surveyor’s Foundation with our previous “Surveyor Says!” guests, Anna Rios (EP21) and Heather Sides (EP95). She also shared her recent experience at the Minnesota State Fair (exhibiting for 12 days!) and spreading the survey gospel to fair goers. Virginia talked about what makes a great mentor and how we need to continue to give back to our wonderful profession.
Thank you for tuning into this episode of “Surveyor Says!” The NSPS Podcast and keep watching social media for our announcements regarding Episode 100 and cool prizes!
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This episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" finds your host, Tim Burch, providing news and other updates for his episode of "From the Director's Desk." He recaps the last few episodes and shares the latest updates on happenings from the world of NSPS and surveying. Tim provides updates on the 2025 Student Competition and "NGS Day" being held In Silver Spring, MD next March. He also acknowledges the generous sponsors who help provide support for the activities and advocacy within the profession:
Assurance Risk Managers
Esri
Trimble
GeoLearn
NCEES
SAM
Juliano & Associates
Land Surveyors United
Get Kids into Survey
Control Point Associates
Dioptra
IPLSA
Topcon Solution Store
QK4
Diamondback Land Surveying
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This episode will introduce you to our latest series of discussions simply named “The Young Surveyor’s Network Edition” and will feature many aspects of millennial survey professionals and technicians. Our guest is Eric Salovitch, Chair of the NHLSA Young Surveyors, discussing their recent project to determine the elevation at the top of Mount Tecumseh, a peak in the Sandwich Range of the White Mountains in New Hampshire.
Recent aerial surveys using LiDAR technology was used to determine the peak was 3,995 feet, not the 4,003 feet previously determined by the United States Coast Survey in the mid 1800’s. This new elevation determination puts the peak at risk of being dropped off the famed 4,000 Footers list within New Hampshire.
Eric and his fellow NHLSA Young Surveyors set out to measure the peak using modern surveying equipment and methods to confirm the elevation. This episode talks about how the Young Surveyors began and conquered their quest of Mt. Tecumseh.
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This week’s episode went from collecting a few sound bites about ongoing legislative efforts from our NSPS Lobbyist, JB Byrd, to a full-blown recording! We caught up with him on a late Friday afternoon to provide “Surveyor Says!” The NSPS Podcast and boy, are we glad we did! JB chatted with Executive Director Tim Burch about the ongoing Ligado saga, their presentation to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel that will be included in the upcoming published NAS report, and legislative outreach during the mid-term election campaigns.
Once again, it was a pleasure to hear JB provide great insight into the sometimes-aggravating world of US politics. Thank you for tuning into this great conversation with JB & Tim on this episode of “Surveyor Says!” The NSPS Podcast.
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Today I speak to Phil Fedor. Phil is a Survey Project Manager at Bowman and Registered Land surveyor in Arizona and Certified Survey Technician through the National Society of Professional Surveyors. Born in Syracuse, N. He is now based in Phoenix Arizona with his two girls, lovely wife and beautiful horses. Growing up, Phil wanted to be a cowboy before moving onto a Rockstar as a teen. He began his career back in New York 31 years ago. He has a love for all things horses and calls himself a horseman, and outdoorsman, who enjoys camping, fishing, & hiking. He states that he used to hike a lot until land surveying wore me down. A giving and kind charity man, Phil spends a lot of his time helping various charities as a volunteer. He is a member of the Queen Creek mounted Posse, which is a non-profit, all volunteer search & rescue unit under the supervision of the Pinal County Sheriff. I am also a member of the Friends of Horseshoe Park, a non-profit which promotes and manages the Queen Creek Rodeo called Roots 'n' Boots. Lastly, I am a rider in an annual Pony Express re-enactment which raises money for a therapeutic riding centre in Phoenix, called Horses Help. We completed that event on July 1 2022.
This episode proudly supported by Ozdetect https://ozdetect.com.au/
You can find Phil
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nysrs_91/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/phil.fedor.1
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-fedor-rls-99a40224/
You can contact me at: https://www.petacox.com
Podcast Support Defining Boundaries: https://www.patreon.com/PetaCox
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LinkedIn: https://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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Turning right instead of left was the critical point in Michaels surveying career. Michael is a now retired Registered Surveyor and Town Planner with a wealth of experience gained as a private consultant practicing throughout New South Wales, particularly the North Coast region, for over 40 years. He has considerable experience in the land development process, taking many projects from concept design through to completion. From early on Michael knew that he was going to be a manager & run his own company. That company, RESOURCE DESIGN & MANAGEMENT just won an award for the Small Consultancy Category at the Surveying Consultancy Excellence Awards 2021 for Consulting Surveyors National. He is passionate about his work and encourages everyone to continually strive for excellence in their work. Michael is currently a Board Member of the Association of Consulting Surveyors NSW and the NSW Board of Surveying and Spatial Information. Previously he has been a Director of the Institution of Surveyors NSW, Chairman of the North Coast Group of the Institution and Chairman of the North Coast Chapter of the Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA). He is a guest town planning examiner with the NSW Board of Surveying and Spatial Information and has also been heavily involved in the training and education of surveying candidates aspiring to achieve registration with the Board. We finish up with chatting about life 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
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This week I speak to Taylor Handschuh. Known as The Map Lady, Tay comes from New Jersey, just outside of New York. She is not a surveyor but loves all things spatial, data and technology. Tay is the Founder & Director of Geospatial Technology Implementations. She holds a Bachelor and Masters and was awarded Summa Cum Laude and won an award for her AGIC (Arizona Geographic Information Council) student presentation. She began her career Informally making maps for art and problem solving, and her first client was habitat for humanity. Her aim is to work with Geospatial Technology Enablement for every sector! Tay specialises in using Mobile LiDAR systems and GPS denied environments. Growing up Tay wanted to be an Astronaut, Piercing Artist and an Urban Planner.
Her hobbies lie around Gems and Minerals! Collecting them, going to gem shows, digging for gems or rockhounding, exploring old places and telling stories in 3D.
You can find Taylor
Website: https://www.maplady.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_map_lady/?hl=en
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheMapLady1?s=20&t=oTBGeEwfpk21ZxCvhreiXg
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/
Red Shelf Records/Sounds Delicious Australia: https://www.instagram.com/soundsdeliciousaustralia/
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Claire began her career in in Surveying in Westport, New Zealand. She has been working in the industry for 9 years. A tomboy at heart, Claire toyed with the idea of being a builder, a farmer or more seriously joining the Air Force. She was a finalist in the NZ Spatial Excellence Awards 2018 for Women's Leadership & won the Young Professional and People's Choice award & also the Survey and Spatial NZ Bogle Young Surveyor 2016. Claire is part of the Volunteer Community Surveyor Program which is run by the FIG Young Surveyors Network, where they are working to connect young surveyors to volunteer their time and skills to humanitarian causes such as land rights and environmental impacts. We take about Diversity, Mentoring, Land issues, Imposter syndrome and much more.
You can find Claire at;
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-buxton-088a8285
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clbuxton/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lil_bucko/
For all things FIG got to;
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FigYoungSurveyorsNetwork/
Instagram: https://fig.net/vcsp/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fig_young
You can contact me at;
www.petacox.com
Podcast Support Defining Boundaries:
https://www.patreon.com/PetaCox
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Defining Boundaries has reached its 1 year celebrations starting next week. Here is my look back over the year that was. A mashup of all the chats so far. Next week stay tuned for Timothy Burch.
Guests this year include:
Rodney Olson https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodney-olsen/
Narelle Underwood https://www.linkedin.com/in/narelleunderwood/
Brian Hammonds https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-hammonds-8a029932/
Laetitia Reboux https://www.linkedin.com/in/laetitia-reboux-msc-gcinstces-30467183/
Dave Iping https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-iping-b1254475/
Kellie Dean https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellie-dean-785158a1/
Craig Sandy https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-sandy-ls-maicd-6432716/
Michelle Blicavs https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelleblicavs/
Mark Scanlon https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-scanlon-42596526/
Matthew Stansberry https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-r-stansberry-abb8375/
Dylan Frank https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylan-frank-5589a771/
John Minehan https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-minehan-b21bb149/
James Sprott https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-sprott-2562168a/
Paul Rowlandson https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-rowlandson-10012819/
Paul Burrows https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulsimonburrows/
Paul Le Mottee https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-le-mottee-2841a665/
Armen Dervisevic https://www.linkedin.com/in/armendervisevic/
Craig Roberts https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-roberts-58706b11/
Belinda Willis https://www.linkedin.com/in/belinda-willis-06a55a3b/
Evan Akar https://www.linkedin.com/in/evan-a-65317525/
Tony Crossett https://www.linkedin.com/in/tony-crossett-8a338660/
Greg Goodman https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregoryalangoodman/
Mitchel Hanlon https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchel-hanlon-b7808727/
Glenn Campbell https://www.linkedin.com/in/glenn-campbell-4b9b2153/
Bob Harrison https://www.linkedin.com/company/harrison-friedmann-&-associates-pty/about/
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The Geoholics Podcast - Episode 237 - Dennis McKay
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The Geoholics Podcast LIVE!!!! From Trimble Dimensions 2024
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The Geoholics Podcast LIVE!!!! From Trimble Dimensions 2024 - Day 2!
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The Geoholics Podcast LIVE!!!! From Trimble Dimensions 2024 - Day 2!
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Check out these highlights from this year's awesome event!!!
02:29 - David Fischl, Owner at O'Fischl Inclusion Consulting LTD
12:45 - Tyler Stewart, Solutions Manager at Swinerton
21:45 - Daniel Tabar, Co-Founder & President at Atomontage Inc.
34:30 - Mike Winn, CEO at DroneDeploy
50:48 - Joaquin Flores, VDC Manager, Vaughn Construction
1:03:21 - Zachary Stoner, Regional Manager and Drone Program Administrator at Sunrun
1:19:40 - Jaresiah Desrosiers, Senior Project Manager at Build Health International
1:31:00 - Davis Meeks, Assistant Project Manager at Garney Construction
1:43:10 - Ben Oller, Business Development Lead at GEODNET
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Multi Data Source Integration
#thegeoholics #thegeoholicspodcast #Dataintegration #spatialdata #
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Ep233.2 Drones
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The Geoholics Podcast LIVE!!!! From Trimble Dimensions 2024 - Day 2!
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The Geoholics Podcast LIVE!!!! From Trimble Dimensions 2024
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Channel: Trent Keenan
Dane Courville, PLS, returns to give a presentation on PLSS Double Proportioning Calculations for those studying for the PS/FS & CST Exams.
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Least Square Adjustments Presented by Dane Courville, PLS
https://mentoringmondays.xyz/
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Dr. Charles A. "Tony" Nettleman, III, PSM, Esq. returns with a presentation you don't want to miss, "Old Dogs Can Learn New Tricks: Planning for Your Best 2024 and Making It Happen"
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Steven J. Martin, PLS, presents this week on GNSS / GPS Basics.
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Jerry Mahan, PLS, has another excellent presentation prepared for us on Meridian Conversions, as well as some homework for you to do this weekend -- especially if you're preparing to take the CS / FS / CST exams.
Make sure you click on Jerry’s website to review and do your homework!
https://jerrymahun.com/.../mentoring-mondays/362-11-dec-2023
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Michael H. Schoder, PLS, presents on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska Survey.
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Jerry Mahun, PLS, joins us for a presentation on Getting Orgazined for the FS & CST exams.
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Title and Rights for those taking the FS/PS or CST exams
Presented by: Dane Courville, PLS
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Zach Radel with Cooper Aerial joins Mentoring Mondays to present on 'All Things Aerial Mapping for Surveyors.'
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Kai Duebbert presents on Kompass BMS, a cutting-edge Project Management software for Surveyors.
https://mentoringmondays.xyz/
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Growing your surveying and geospatial mobile data and communications skills and tools with Michael Dix
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Gavin talks mapping applications with Rohan Verma, CEO and Executive Director of MapmyIndia.
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Neil interviews Lewis Graham, president and CTO of GeoCue. Lewis advises on transitioning to new technologies, including when surveyors resist relaxing accuracy.
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Mapping a Levee: An aggressively scheduled survey project mapping the alignment of a levee along the Mississippi River during flooding was undertaken using multiple aerial and hydrographic platforms, which reduced costs but created the challenge of merging elevation data from temporal data sets. Surdex’s Steve Kasten tells us the details.
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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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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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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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How a surveyor started his solo surveying business 20 years ago, diversified services to weather several economic downturns, and grew to one of the largest multi-discipline surveying firms in the UK. With our guest James Cooper, MRICS MCInstCES MCIHT FRGS, CEO of Survey Solutions (UK)
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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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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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