Lamar Evers, PLS, was elected president of the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS) in March 2013.  He began his surveying career in 1966 and went on to own and operate his own professional surveying company before becoming a county, and now statewide, surveyor currently working for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.  He is licensed in Florida...

Editor’s note: Digital signatures and seals are loved by some and hated by others, and they’re rapidly gaining acceptance. Nearly every state in the country have okayed their use for professional engineering and surveying documents—but not necessarily at the local jurisdiction or agency level. Jim Crume, a pioneer in the use of digital signatures for...

The 24th bi-annual meeting of the Surveying and Geomatics Educators’ Society (SaGES) took place at Tyler Junior College in Tyler, Texas, June 16-20, 2013. This year it was combined with a FIG (Federation Internationale des Geometres) 2013 regional conference as an integral part, for the first time. The meeting was hosted by Patti Williams and Willace Johnson, both instructors in the...

Surveying in support of sub-atomic research. “The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and … there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover” – Louis de Broglie “Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire” (European Council for Nuclear Research), the celebrated research center in Geneva, Switzerland and home to...

At the Florida Surveying and Mapping Society annual meeting in St. Pete’s Beach last month, I enjoyed hobnobbing with surveyors whom I’ve gotten to know over the past few years.  But perhaps even more so, I relished chatting with members of our next generation of surveyors, the 20- and 30-something-year-olds. As I listened intently to their...