This course will look at the National Geodetic Survey's decade-long effort to prepare and modernize the National Spatial Reference System and its user community.

In sharing some tragic instrument memories, I hope to encourage those people who use surveying instruments on a daily basis along with the occasional user.

A police uniform serves as a very public reminder that the state vests the individual wearing it with the power of arrest and the use force when necessary. What, if anything, does the “uniform” of the average land surveyor communicate?

This issue of POB marks a new stage in our role of serving the professional land surveyor.

Here’s how two professional concrete scanners are using GPR, how they get the most out of it, and their thoughts on accessories designed to make their jobs easier.

Recently, I had an opportunity to visit with Elly Ball, the CEO of GetKidsintoSurvey, whose mission is to educate kids and the general public on the essentials of surveying.

Kristopher Kline commented to me about my column, “Lifetime Learning.” His comments concerned the difference between technical training, review of familiar material and actual continuing education.

In part one of our special Career Notes feature, we spoke with Andrew Crumpler, a senior tutor of the Survey Association’s (TSA) Surveying Course at the Survey School of Worcester. In part two, POB speaks with two graduates of the Survey Association's (TSA) Surveying Course: Rafe Holmes and Steven Smith.

Andrew Crumpler, senior tutor, TSA Surveying Course and the Survey School, spoke to POB about the school and its curriculum, the barriers that students face in the surveying industry today and the future of surveying as a whole.