Introduction: Why I Asked the Robot About Law In a profession where everything we do could end up in court, surveyors spend surprisingly…
Category: Feature
10.25.2025
The Rest of the Story – Part 1
This saga begins in Trinity County, California where Steven A.D. Puter (pronounced “pewter”) was born in January 1857. Two years later, his father…
10.25.2025
Mission: Possible
A Schoolkid, His Surveyor Dad, and a Full 3D Scan of a Lost Landmark
When fourth grader Luke Gutierrez was assigned Mission Soledad for his California mission project—which is a rite of passage for many schoolchildren in…
10.25.2025
The Public Land Survey System Foundation Celebrates its 16th Anniversary
“Therefore, these organizations hereby create and institute a ‘Public Land Survey System Foundation’ (PLSSF) for the improvement of the surveying and mapping professions…
09.15.2025
Recreating Stonehenge in West Texas
In 2004, I had the rare opportunity to step outside the traditional boundaries of land surveying and contribute to one of the most…
09.15.2025
The Pioneering Professor Who Transformed Community Advocacy
In the early 1990s, environmental justice advocates across the US struggled to prove that marginalized communities faced disproportionate exposure to pollution and other…
08.13.2025
Closing the Subsurface Data Gap
Engineering Blind Spots and the Power of Peer Review
Engineers are integral to every stage of a construction project, guiding decisions from early design through to completion. Their expertise directly influences structural…
08.13.2025
Unsung Hero: The Louisiana-Mississippi Line
Northwest of Vicksburg, Mississippi lies a landlocked portion of Louisiana that you would think rightfully belongs to Mississippi. When General Land Office (GLO)…
08.13.2025
The Practical Surveyor and the Map That Changed the World
In March of this year, Doug Burgum, the newly appointed head of the US Dept. of Interior, invited all, in order to understand…
08.13.2025
Real-Time GNSS Corrections to Improve Seafloor Monitoring & Advanced Earthquake Prediction
High-precision seafloor positioning in Japan offers insight for worldwide surveyors In a region where seismic activity is an ever-present threat, Japanese researchers are…
