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40 Under 40, 2017: Sami Mantere
CADASTRAL SURVEYOR AT NATIONAL LAND SURVEY FINLAND SURVEYING MAY BE TURNING HIGH- TECH, but often a major part of the appeal to join the profession comes from an appreciation of land and nature. Sami Mantere hails from a small village in northern Finland, where his hobbies were based on nature; nowadays hunting and trekking prominently...
40 Under 40, 2017: Heidi Jackson
SURVEY TECHNICIAN AT NORTHSTAR LAND SURVEYING OREGON, USA LIKE MANY SURVEYORS, Heidi Jackson took a scenic route to the profession. Growing up on a family farm in Wisconsin, she developed a love of the outdoors. While earning a BA in geography, she sought as her final project to map ideal locations to move to after...
40 Under 40, 2017: Diana Bečirević
SURVEYING ENGINEER CROATIA DIANA BECIREVIC’ IS A PROACTIVE ENGINEER, with a BS and an MS in geodesy and geoinformatics from the Faculty of Geodesy, Croatia. She also served as the editor-in-chief of a student magazine that encouraged cooperation between academia and the private sector, which is still active today. After school, at a surveying equipment...
40 Under 40, 2017: Danielle Smilovsky
REMOTE SENSING SCIENTIST AND GIS ANALYST AT AMEC FOSTER WHEELER ARIZONA, USA WITH A BS IN ECOSYSTEM SUSTAINABILITY AND AN MS IN GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, Danielle Smilovsky uses GIS and remote-sensing applications to study and analyze ground deformation around the world. She specializes in performing geotechnical land subsidence investigations using InSAR, SAR, lidar, and water...
40 Under 40, 2017: Frank Ferrantello
PRESIDENT OF FERRANTELLO PROFESSIONAL SURVEYORS AND LAND PLANNERS NEW YORK, USA EXECUTING LAND AND CIVIL DESIGN in and around one of the world’s largest metropolises is not for the faint-hearted. Dizzying sky-scrapers, massive public works, rapidly expanding high-end residential complexes, intensely complex survey records, and regulatory and permitting processes: these are in the wheelhouse of...
40 Under 40, 2017: Biplov Banda
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE AT THE GEOINFORMATICS CENTER IN THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY THAILAND MEMBER AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPER FOR SAHANA SOFTWARE FOUNDATION CALIFORNIA, USA BIPLOV BHANDARI EARNED HIS BS IN GEOMATICS ENGINEERING from Kathmandu University, Nepal, in 2014, and now he applies GIS to humanitarian efforts. As soon as he graduated,...
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