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Marine Institute and TCarta Student Internship Program Makes Major Data Contribution to Seabed 2030 Project
Denver, Colorado, 2 November 2023 – TCarta Marine, a global provider of hydrospatial products and services, has delivered three major satellite derived bathymetry…
Guest Editorial: Surveying for a Sustainable Future
Energy transformation is in the process of forever changing the landscape of New York State. And the reality is surveying is the basis…
Bad Backsights: Potpourri
Why I Love the Profession of Surveying I’ve been surveying since 1980 when I was 19 years old. I’ve been very fortunate in…
Everything is Somewhere: A Few Words in Favor of Libertarian Ideals
I read Carl C. de Baca’s (PLS) August 2023 column, Anatomy of a Conspiracy, with great interest and approval which perhaps is no…
Sacred Boundaries
Boundary lines are sacred things. History shows that boundary lines, and the surveyors who locate them, have been around since at least ancient…
A Career Opportunity of a Lifetime
My Experience as a Young Professional in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
I’ve always wanted to travel outside of the United States, but my college aspirations put that dream on hold. Little did I know…
Big Bone Baptist Church Cemetery
Cincinnati State Capstone Part 2
In 2022, Big Bone Baptist Church (B3) and students from the Cincinnati State Technical and Community College Land Surveying program began a project…
Vantage Point: Reauthorizing the NFIP: 2023 Edition
Over the last seven years, Congress has issued 25 short-term reauthorizations of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), hindering the program’s stability. As…
Test Yourself 88: The Three Radii
Isosceles triangle abc has three equal radii circles inscribed as shown. What is distance db if ad equals 1.000? For the solution to…
