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It isn’t too early to begin planning National Surveyors Week activities, and requesting Proclamations from local, state, and national government entities. NSPS has “NSPS Swag”!
Contact Trish Milburn to find out about it!
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NSPS Government Affairs Consultant John Palatiello presented testimony last week before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. The hearing focused on the USGS 3DEP program and the funding request for FY 2021. Video coverage of Palatiello's remarks includes the segments beginning at 1:12:50 and Q&A beginning at 1:25:30. In his prepared remarks, Palatiello stated "Our request and recommendation to the Subcommittee is to appropriate funds for the 3DEP program at its optimal annual level of $146 million among all participating agencies."
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Coming soon: NSPS Day on the Hill Webinars in preparation for visits on Capitol Hill are scheduled for March 18, 2020 - 2:00 pm Eastern and March 20, 2020 - 2:00 pm Eastern. Login information will soon be on the NSPS web site. Also use the NSPS website to sign up to attend Day on the Hill.
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Renton Technical College
The 2nd year of a 2-year program for those with goals to become licensed as a land surveyor or highly skilled technically, it combines geospatial-technical courses with boundary and land use courses.
The program starts every mid-September with a recommended course sequence through mid-June. The cost of the course is approximately $4800, on the same tuition rate as other RTC courses, with modest book and equipment requirements. Completion includes a one-year certificate and the option of a 2-year AAS degree. The course uses the CANVAS Learning Management System. On-campus labs and equipment are also available for students who have opportunity to come to campus. For more information, click here.
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Today’s episode of “Future Focus” is our first face-to-face group podcast because the important topic. Our guests today are from the Illinois Professional Land Surveyors Association (IPLSA) and have organized a task force focusing on workforce development, and more specifically, an apprenticeship program for technicians. We sat down during the recent IPLSA Annual conference to talk about the program after a well-received panel discussion earlier in the program. Thanks for listening to the latest “Future Focus” episode on this edition of “Surveyor Says!” Listen on the NSPS website, or download on Podbean, Spotify, iTunes, GooglePlay, and Iheartradio.
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President Trump's proposed FY 2021 Budget, including the related fact sheets, was released earlier this week. Details found in the specific books for agencies such as USGS and Department of Interior. The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO’s) recently released an infrastructure funding report, “Public-Private Partnerships for Transportation and Water Infrastructure”. Federal, state, and local governments spent $441 billion on transportation and water infrastructure in fiscal year 2017, and there is widespread demand for greater investment. All levels of government face calls to improve highways and other transportation systems and to make drinking water and wastewater systems safer and less expensive for users. The CBO report explains the differences between the use of public-private partnerships for transportation and those for water infrastructure. NSPS will be promoting a strong role for surveying, mapping, and geospatial data and services in the next highway bill and other infrastructure legislation during its Day on the Hill in Washington, DC on April 1.
Nadeau Land Surveys
In this issue: Message from Jim!
Education Events: 3 Events in March!
In the News: "UCI, Other Researchers Find Collaborative Flood Modeling Process Effective", "Local Efforts to Address Climate Crisis Make Difference", and "Study Finds Flooding Damage to Levees is Cumulative - and Often Invisible"
Resources: "FEMA: Building Science" and "FEMA: Protecting Building Utility Systems from Flood Damage"
Real Estate Corner: "New Flood Insurance Maps Drawing Critical Reaction in NC"
Surveying Corner: "Updates from the Surveying Engineering Technology Program at University of Maine" and "Indiana’s 102-Year-Old Surveyor Retiring"
Banner Image: Photo from "Stop Driving Through Floods, You Idiots" by Dennis Mersereau, featured in The Vane, October 5, 2015.
Read More: https://madmimi.com/p/c913101?pact=341386-156393559-2686935690-0a21524e82823b29e227bd2bfd8548ebb488625b
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Get Kids Into Survey Team
That's a wrap!!! We have reached our sponsorship goal for the Utilities USA Poster! Hurrah! We will be finishing off the design this week as well as working on the activity now that we know what fun characters are involved in the poster. Thank you to our amazing sponsors for coming together and supporting us. We are so grateful to you all. And what's even cooler about the Utilities Poster is that if you have our Civil Engineering Poster you will be able to match them up together and see that the streets align making one giant city scene. Pretty awesome right? All down to our very talented Illustrator Marek.
To our amazing sponsors and our new characters!
Baseline Corporation & their Texas Horned Lizard
Diamondback Land Surveying & their two German Shepherd pals
Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors & return of Bengal Cat
Laser Technology, Inc. & Robo Roosevelt Rogers (as seen in the attached image)
LiDARUSA & LiDAR Man
NSPS
There is a national movement to reform occupational licensing laws that are frivolous, restrict commerce, and erect barriers to market entry. NSPS is pointing out that licensure of the design professions – architecture, engineering and surveying – should not be painted with a broad brush as licensing in these professions protect public health, safety, and welfare. A new poll shows a large segment of the American public agrees. NSPS will be promoting the public health, safety, and welfare benefits of design professional licensure during its Day on the Hill in Washington, DC on April 1.
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NSPS lobbyist John "JB" Byrd recently met with Jerry Carl (R), a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1st Congressional District of Alabama. This is an open seat caused by the decision of current Congressman Bradley Byrne (R) to run for the U.S. Senate. Mr. Carl started his first company at the age of 25 and grew that small business into numerous other companies throughout the region. In all, Jerry has started over ten different companies ranging from real estate to healthcare and timber. The primary in Alabama is scheduled for Tuesday, March 3, 2020. Click here to learn more about the NSPS PAC, the Jefferson Club, and NSPS PAC Chairman Jon Warren's "Drive to 75" Campaign.
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No matter what the future holds, prepare to meet challenges head on. Future-proof your resume by becoming a Certified Survey Technician (CST). This unique four-level certification program indicates official recognition by NSPS that a person can perform surveying tasks at a specific technical level.
Show what you can do! Decide between the field or office track. Visit http://www.cstnsps.com for details.
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Sponsor a CST Seminar/Exam Session! Contact NSPS to learn how others are doing this!
Geospatial World
The global geospatial industry has been transforming at breakneck pace, witnessing too many, and too frequent disruptions. While the business leaders seem to have accepted and embraced this reality, the people working in the industry are clearly struggling to keep pace with technology innovation. Perhaps that is why, a whopping 84% of over 2,000 industry professionals who took part in a 2020 survey acknowledged that there was a skill gap in terms of what the industry needs and what professionals coming out of universities have to offer.
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So — you're stepping into the aerial arena, taking command of your first unmanned aerial vehicle (drone). Given their usefulness in a wide range of geospatial work, that's absolutely a smart decision. But you know it's not as easy as grabbing one off the shelf and hurling it into the sky. You need a drone license.
Depending on where you are in the world, drone licensing (and what you can legally do with a drone, where, and when) varies.
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Inside GNSS
Americans by the millions are being tracked through their cell phones, using location data sold both legally and, apparently, illegally. The buyers-users range from marketers and bounty hunters to border enforcement groups within the Department of Homeland Security.
The data comes from two primary sources: the cellular phone-tower data generated by the operation of the phones as they connect and move through the network, and by the apps within cell phones that determine location, often via the GNSS chip in each phone.
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GPS World
The nation's third next-generation GPS III satellite — and the first delivered by Lockheed Martin to the new U.S. Space Force — has arrived in Florida for an expected April launch.
On Feb. 5, the third Lockheed Martin-built GPS III space vehicle was shipped to Cape Canaveral from the company's GPS III Processing Facility near Denver aboard a massive Air Force C-17 aircraft traveling from Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado.
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Director, Cotton Jones (WY) |
| President-Elect, Mark Sargent (NH) |
Director, Thomas Brooks (AL) |
| Vice President, Tim Burch (IL) |
Director, Bob Neathamer (OR) |
| Treasurer, Bob Miller (PA) |
Director, Danny Martinez (NE) |
| Secretary, Craig Amey (MI) |
Executive Director, Curt Sumner (MD) |
| Immediate Past President, Kim Leavitt (ID) |
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