Channel: the GEOHOLICS
Mistakes turned into inspired innovation: that's the case with Tom Yeshurun and Civ Robotics.
Tom talks about what goes into autonomous layout, the productivity and profitability unlocked by robotic point placement, and why automation should elevate field professionals rather than simply replace them in his episode of #TheGeoholics.
Check out the full episode now on our website, on YouTube, or wherever you listen to the show!
#AddValue #MakeFriends
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Channel: the GEOHOLICS
Source:
https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-x7exa-1af89c3
The guys are joined by TK and Big Shoots for a full-circle conversation about where The Geoholics started, what it has become, and why this crazy little show continues to resonate with surveyors, mappers, photogrammetrists, tech leaders, mentors, troublemakers, and everyone else trying to move the profession forward.
This episode gets into the early days of the show, the raw and scrappy chemistry that made it work, the guests and moments that left a mark, and the bigger mission that has always been at the heart of it all: adding value and making friends.
We also dig into the future of surveying, mentorship, recruiting the next generation, technology, AI, drones, scanners, mobile mapping, and the role of professional judgment in a world moving faster than ever. Because the best surveyors are not just button-pushers — they understand the why behind the workflow, the risk behind the data, and the responsibility behind every deliverable.
Big Shoots is back behind the mic. TK brings the fire. Kent and Sean keep it moving. Buckle up…this one is a ride you don't want to miss!
Huge thanks to this week’s featured partners: EMLID, TopoDOT, AllTerra Central, Leica Geosystems, David Evans & Associates, and DBLS.
Music by Lainey Wilson!
Until next time…add value, make friends, and most importantly, be safe and healthy!
#TheGeoholics #Surveying #LandSurveying #Geomatics #Geospatial #Mentorship #RealityCapture #MobileMapping #Photogrammetry #LiDAR #SurveyLife #ProfessionalSurveyor #FutureOfSurveying #AddingValueMakingFriends
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The boys are live from Brisbane, Australia!!
Interviews and commentary from the 12d Tech Forum 2026
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Forty years in Land & Right-of-Way. An Enron survivor. A woman who earned her seat at the table in historically male-dominated industries. And, in her own words, someone who has spent her career “navigating a male-dominated world one martini at a time.”
This week, we sit down with Liz Babcock, Vice President of Land & ROW at ALTAEI, for a candid conversation about resilience, trust, relationships and what it really takes to succeed in the people-heavy world of land and right-of-way.
Liz shares lessons from four decades spent working with landowners, attorneys, engineers, agencies, utilities and energy companies—and explains why technical knowledge alone is never enough.
We also dive into:
~How the Land and ROW profession has changed—and where progress is still needed
~What+ surviving the Enron collapse taught Liz about reputation and resilience
~How to build trust with skeptical or frustrated landowners
~The importance of bringing ROW professionals into projects earlier
~Earning your voice and your seat at the table
~Why relationships, humor and genuine human connection still move projects forward
~The stories and experiences that make a 40-year career truly meaningful
This episode is a reminder that successful projects are not built through data, documents and processes alone. They are built through trust, communication, judgment and treating people right.
Because the best ROW professionals do not just help projects acquire land—they protect relationships, reduce risk and create a path forward.
Music by Prince!!
#TheGeoholics #LandSurveying #RightOfWay #ROW #LandAcquisition #Geospatial #Surveying #Infrastructure #Leadership #WomenInLeadership #WomenInEnergy #ProfessionalDevelopment #CareerLessons #RelationshipBuilding #ProjectManagement #Prince #WhenDovesCry #Podcast
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Channel: the GEOHOLICS
Have you ever wondered how we are fostering the next generation of problem-solving surveyors?
Mentorship and proper training is important, and it also takes people like Shelby Sharpe who are digging into the efficiencies of how people learn best to impart this critical knowledge to the next generation.
If you're a #surveyor with decades of experience, then it's important to our industry that you pass your knowledge on and share you experience.
Shelby Sharpe and #TheGeoholics dive into all things education, #surveying, and the future of the industry in her episode, which is available on our website, here on YouTube, and the other podcast platforms you tune in to The #Geoholics!
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This week on The Geoholics, we’re digging into the roots of the profession with Michael Hart, BLM Chief Cadastral Surveyor for Idaho, and Bradley Dillon, Lead Surveyor in the Field Section for BLM Idaho. From the legacy of the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Boise Meridian Initial Point to hunting down century-old monuments in rough terrain, this episode is all about the history, grit, problem-solving, and purpose behind cadastral surveying.
We talk field stories, conflicting evidence, protecting public lands, modernizing workflows without losing the integrity of the work, and why mentoring the next generation matters now more than ever. Because cadastral surveyors do not just find boundaries—they build the story, defend the evidence, and preserve a legacy that still shapes millions of acres today.
Buckle up…Episode 280 is one for every surveyor who believes the past still matters, the field still teaches, and the monument still tells the truth.
#TheGeoholics #LandSurveying #CadastralSurveying #BLM #PublicLands #PLSS #Surveyors #Geospatial #Mentorship #America250 #BoiseMeridian #BoundariesMatter
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Channel: the GEOHOLICS
Many people claim #AI is going to take jobs, but what if it actually creates more jobs?
It's still somewhat early to fully know, but that idea was a topic in the latest episode of #TheGeoholics featuring Itzik Malka of 4M Analytics.
What do you think? Let us know in the comments below!
The full episode is available now on our website, on YouTube, or wherever you like to access #TheGeoholicsPodcast!
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The boys are live from Brisbane, Australia!!
Interviews and commentary from the 12d Tech Forum 2026
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Channel: the GEOHOLICS
Source:
https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-crv36-1aecf7a
This week on The Geoholics, we sit down with Karen Schuckman, Subject Matter Expert in Remote Sensing and Geospatial Services at RRC Companies—and someone who has had a front-row seat to the evolution of modern lidar and airborne mapping.
Karen takes us back to the early days of airborne GPS, before IMUs became standard, and shares how she helped develop groundbreaking data-processing workflows following Hurricane Floyd and supported North Carolina’s pioneering statewide lidar program. We also explore her work supporting major FEMA initiatives, her passion for positional accuracy and data quality, and the continued importance of understanding geodesy, datums, projections and metadata.
This conversation goes well beyond lidar. Karen shares valuable lessons about:
Turning emerging technology into trusted, defensible deliverables
Why industry standards and ASPRS guidance matter
The fundamentals professionals still cannot afford to overlook
Helping engineers effectively use survey-grade geospatial data
What lidar’s evolution can teach us about AI, automation and digital twins
The mindset required to adapt, evolve and stay relevant in a rapidly changing profession
We also discuss what even experienced professionals still misunderstand about lidar, which technologies never lived up to the hype, and what continues to excite Karen after more than two decades of pushing the geospatial profession forward.
Oh—and did we mention Karen was an alternate gymnast for the 1972 Olympics? This episode delivers history, technology, education and one incredible career journey.
Buckle up for Episode 283 and join us as we add value, make friends and explore how accurate geospatial data gets to the right place on the ground.
Music by Jethro Tull!
#TheGeoholics #LiDAR #RemoteSensing #Geospatial #LandSurveying #Geomatics #Photogrammetry #Mapping #GIS #Geodesy #DataQuality #PositionalAccuracy #DigitalTwins #ArtificialIntelligence #SurveyingTechnology #ASPRS #CareerDevelopment #GeospatialLeadership #Podcast
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Some lessons are learned the hard way... especially the ones that involve broken #surveying gear.
We talk with Tom Yeshurun of Civ Robotics about the technology they've created to automate construction layout and some of the interesting stories he's lived through along the way.
The full episode is available now on our website, YouTube channel, and other podcast outlets!
And thank you for continuing to listen to and support #TheGeoholics!
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Channel: Trent Keenan
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: Trent Keenan
Presented by Jerry Mahun, PLS
https://mentoringmondays.xyz/
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Channel: Trent Keenan
History & Proper Procedures of Surveying for the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway presented by Aaron Leach, PLS
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Channel: Trent Keenan
Presentation by Jeremy R. Kilber, Esq.
https://mentoringmondays.xyz/
Video length: 1:05:16
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Channel: Trent Keenan
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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Channel: Trent Keenan
'For The Quest' is an adventure video game that unfolds in the real world using GPS, the public land surveying system and historical landmarks.
https://mentoringmondays.xyz/
Video length: 1:02:05
Category: Education
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Channel: Trent Keenan
Presented by Jerry Mahun, PLS
https://mentoringmondays.xyz/
Video length: 1:17:21
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Channel: Trent Keenan
Leadership Presentation on Changing Roles, Presentation by Gary Kent, PS
https://mentoringmondays.xyz/
Video length: 1:06:42
Category: Education
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Channel: Trent Keenan
Presented by Ron Nelms, PLS
https://mentoringmondays.xyz/
Video length: 1:44:06
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Channel: Trent Keenan
Presentation by Dr. Charles A. "Tony" Nettleman, III, PSM, Esq.
https://mentoringmondays.xyz/
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In this episode of Defining Boundaries, Peta sits down with Jan Francke, a geophysicist, inventor and self described explorer who has spent more than 35 years working with ground penetrating radar and near surface geophysics.
Born in Vancouver and raised between Canada and Australia, Jan shares how curiosity, competition with himself, and a desire to explore what others were not looking at shaped his unconventional career path. From mineral exploration in the Arctic and Africa to scanning beneath Mayan temples in Mexico and working inside the Great Pyramid of Giza, Jan explains how he designs custom radar systems for environments where standard tools are simply not enough.
The conversation explores innovation, risk taking and the importance of education in a rapidly evolving industry. Jan reflects on modifying equipment when the market did not yet offer what he needed, the responsibility of communicating science clearly, and the challenge of maintaining rigour in a world often drawn to spectacle.
Together, Peta and Jan unpack the breadth of ground penetrating radar applications, from mining and infrastructure to autonomous vehicles and even lunar exploration. They also discuss curiosity as a driving force, the role of resilience in a global career, and why after three decades in the field, there is still so much beneath the surface waiting to be discovered.
This episode is a fascinating conversation about science, exploration and the power of asking better questions.
You can find Jan on LinkedIn and through his global geophysics work.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-francke-gpr/
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Darren Booth is a registered land surveyor and director at Hopkins Consultants. Also the President of the Country Surveyors Association. He has been in the industry for over 30 years. Hailing from the mid north coast of NSW, Darren grew up in Port Macquarie. He attended Newcastle University & began his career during Uni days working in Port Macquarie. Spending 10 years at Lithgow before returning to Port Macquarie.
He is an over achiever with way too many awards to list all of them but just to name a few:
Neil Ryan Memorial Prize - Outstanding Achievement in an Urban Survey - BoSSI Assessments - 2006
Winner - EISSI Cadastral Surveying Category - 2009
Sir Thomas Ewing Award - North Coast Professional Surveyor of the Year - 2011,
EISSI NSW Professional of the Year - 2011,
Winner - Excellence in Business - Hopkins Consultants - Port Macquarie Chamber of Commerce - 2012.
He is also part of the examination board for BOSSI Competency Assessments in Registration.
With an obsession in building model trucks, Darren also enjoys kicking back to some tunes, Participation in Professional activities, random history and "fun facts" and like me a little bit of landscape photography.
You can find Darren on LinkedIn.
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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
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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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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;
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1957180/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FigYoungSurveyorsNetwork/
Instagram: https://fig.net/vcsp/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fig_young
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Mark Billsborough is a cadastral endorsed Registered Surveyor and the Managing director of the company Bennett & Bennett in Queensland. He was born in Brisbane and grew up in Goondiwindi. As a kid Mark wanted to be a doctor but completed his first surveying task in grade 12, where he did Tech Drawing that required him to do a detail survey for an assignment using a plane table. Prior to kids Mark was into Triathlons and adventure racing. We discuss life as a surveyor, The Surveyors Trust, Surveyors Academy Surveying Careers and all things Surveying. From Metaverse to Mosquitos.. we covered it all!!!
You can find Mark on LinkedIn
You can contact me at: https://www.petacox.com
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Music by Paul Greene
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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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Dr. James Selevan talks on preparing our transportation infrastructure for autonomous/assisted navigation – Pi-Variables INC. pi-lit.com
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Fab n' Dave, Aussie surveying and remote sensing whiz kids with Aeromterex talk their work on projects ranging from individual sites to entire 3D cities using methods they have developed for producing seamless aerial+terrestrial 3D meshes. With guests Fabrice Marre and David Byrne.
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David Daly, owner of Vigilante Drones and Vigilante Cares and an Iraq & Afghanistan war veteran, talks with Neil about using UAVs as therapy tools for veterans with PTSD.
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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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Joe Paiva discusses trends in distance learning for surveying and geospatial professionals. geo-learn.com - [email protected]
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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 talks mapping applications with Rohan Verma, CEO and Executive Director of MapmyIndia.
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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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Keeping an eye on the structural components of a 189-foot historic chimney has traditionally meant building scaffolding and sending people to precarious heights – a time-consuming, costly, and dangerous endeavor. Doug Reed of Meridian Associates talks about how a small drone equipped with a high-resolution camera quickly collected hundreds of images to provide a comprehensive assessment of the structure.
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Introducing “Point of Order,” the podcast devoted to the functionality and issues that are dealt with by our NSPS Joint Government Affairs Committee. Today Executive Director Curt Sumner is joined by John Palatiello and John “JB” Byrd, our NSPS federal legislative representatives as they discuss topics that will focus specifically on a very important part of NSPS and how it is an advocate to not just its members but to all surveyors nationwide.
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Royalty in the house! During a recent trip to the Oregon to the PLSO Conference in Salem, we were able to sit down with their 2022 Surveyor of the Year, Pat Gaylord, PLS for this episode of “Surveyor Says!” Pat sat down for an in-person conversation with Tim Burch to discuss his new role of NSPS Director for Oregon, workforce development efforts with PLSO, and what the future holds for the surveying profession. He shared growing up with a surveying household with father and uncle, going to college to become a forester yet coming back around a full career in the surveying profession.
We were also lucky enough to have a special guest appearance of PLSO Executive Director Aimee McAuliffe singing Pat’s praises but cannot confirm there was not a bribe for all her compliments. (Maybe a future podcast guest?) “Surveyor Says!” The NSPS Podcast thanks you for the listen!
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Hello and welcome to “Surveyor Says!” the podcast from the National Society of Professional Surveyors. This past week, the annual FIG (Federation of International Surveyors) Working Week was to be held in Amsterdam but was cancelled as another victim of COVID-19, so we asked John Hohol, NSPS FIG Chair, to catch us up on the history of NSPS with FIG. Our latest edition in our “Future Focus” series captured his conversation with Executive Director Curt Sumner. John shares about his involvement with young surveyors worldwide and how he sees their involvement as our profession’s future. An informative discussion, so join us in this “Future Focus” here on “Surveyor Says!”
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This week, we feature a special surveyor who is more than doing her part to promote the profession and help educate our future surveyors! "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" finds us chatting with Kimberly Odom, PSM and owner of Delta Land Surveyors in Monticello, FL. She leads the way with the multi-generational business (learning the biz from her father!) and having family around her every step of the way. Tim Burch recently caught up with Kim to talk about her promotion of the profession at public events and parades as well as "planting the seeds" within elementary school kids about the wonderful career of surveying. You can't help but being impressed after this episode, so check it out today!
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This episode of “Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast” features executive Director Curt Sumner sitting down to speak with Bob Akins, PLS (OH) and a candidate for NSPS Vice President in the upcoming 2022 Election. Bob has been involved in the surveying profession for over 40 years after serving his country in the Army as a surveyor for several tours of Southeast Asia.
Bob represented the Professional Land Surveyors of Ohio (PLSO) as NSPS Governor and was part of the 100% Membership initiative in which he became the Ohio representative on the NSPS Board of Directors. Bob currently serves as Chair of the NSPS Railroad Abandonment Committee and is committed to finding legislative support and financial backing for establishing monuments any time a railroad chooses to abandon a previously used line.
Bob would like to see NSPS continue to support the Young Surveyors Network and provide mentorship for any surveyor looking for career guidance.
Thank you for listening to this episode of “Surveyor Says!” The NSPS Podcast and look for more interviews with the officer candidates for the 2022 NSPS election cycle.
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Throughout the many years that ACSM, and now NSPS, has been an active member of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), John Hohol has been a primary leader of the NSPS delegation. John joins host Curt Sumner to talk about the importance, and benefit, of the relationships developed with our international peers. Among his many accomplishments in FIG is the role he played in the formation of its Foundation which raises funds to secure a sustainable future for surveyors throughout the world.
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The age old question for our storied profession has consistently been for (literally) centuries, “What does a surveyor do?” Whether it be for an audience of fellow professionals (engineers, architects, etc.) or John Q. Public, the surveying profession has struggled with telling our story of who we are and what we do. This week’s episode of “Surveyor Says!” The NSPS Podcast asked that question during the Florida Surveying & Mapping Society (FSMS) Conference and ended up with a great conversation with Melissa Seitzinger, Project Development Manager for LJA Surveying in Tallahassee, FL. Melissa and Tim Burch sat down to discuss the challenges of “selling surveying” to not just those who may need our services, but to parents and their children who could potentially be our next generation of geospatialists. They also identified the ways surveyors can improve their communication, refine their presentation skills, and have a short “elevator speech” primed and ready for connecting with non-surveyors.
A big thanks to the FSMS staff for a great conference and giving us space to record this excellent conversation. Thanks for listening to “Surveyor Says!” The NSPS Podcast and subscribe wherever you listen to your audio selections.
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This week’s episode of “Surveyor Says!” The NSPS Podcast catches up with the NSPS Trig-Star Program Committee as they complete their summer meeting. This session finds Tim Burch sitting down with the group during a break of test grading and strategic planning for the upcoming school year. Joining Tim is the Trig-Star Chair Jerry Juarez, Aaron Leach, John Chagnon, Mike Given, and Sherry Toutges to talk about the value of the Trig-Star program as a recruiting tool and outreach program to help students identify STEM-related careers. They also discuss scholarship opportunities and how the program gives our existing surveying practitioners an opportunity to connect with our future geospatialists.
The Trig-Star program has been in place for almost 40 years and continues to grow. Check out more information about the program at Trig-Star.Com. Thanks for listening to “Surveyor Says!” The NSPS Podcast and subscribe wherever you listen to your audio selections.
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Emerging technology is the theme for this episode as we take a peek at combining several cutting edge measuring devices and placing them on one platform. Our guest this week on "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" is Michael Bleeker, a student at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Your host, Tim Burch, met Michael at the NJSPLS "SurvCon" in Atlantic City where "Gunther" was unveiled to the attendees for a demonstration. The two of them sat down recently to discuss the project and how Michael is applying his variety of skills to build an instrument for future surveyors. He shared his background in mechanical engineering and why he is applying that knowledge into building better measuring tools for the future.
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This week's episode of “Surveyor Says!” The NSPS Podcast finds us in the nation's capital within the shadow of the Washington Monument and the NSPS Student Competition. Your host, Tim Burch, caught up with Megan Theune-Baillargeon, a Young Surveyor from Wisconsin and volunteer for the Competition. Megan shared her story of growing up on the outskirts of Milwaukee and getting her start in surveying. She talked about the benefits of working for a small firm early in her career to gain valuable knowledge in varying parts of surveying. Megan has taken that early experience and transforming her career path through surveying classes into a future goal of professional licensure.
Our profession will be much better off if we can encourage more bright young minds like Megan! Thanks for your contribution to the NSPS Student Competition and for your efforts to promote the profession through the Wisconsin YSN.
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