The course aims to teach the most novice of students how to efficiently and accurately conduct a utility survey from initial client specification through delivering a fully marked map.

Sometimes it’s not the changes in a technology that make the biggest difference, but advances in the surrounding world that allow that technology to reach its greater potential.

Since 1990, 185 New Yorkers had lost their lives along Queens Boulevard — most of them pedestrians — and Mayor Bill de Blasio decided it was time to stop this so-called “Boulevard of Death” from killing again.

Pardon the pun, but geophysical surveys can be the bedrock of today’s environmental projects. Applications range from locating abandoned underground storage tanks and utilities, to complex mapping of geology in remedial investigations, to finding landfill boundaries and other buried unknown problems.