INSTRUCTORS AND SEMINARS
Unconventional Surveys Within the Rectangular System (HES, MS)
In spite of the ever-increasing library of information being written as a guide for surveyors, there remains a critical void concerning resurveys of a patented mineral survey. This workshop will explore a variety of mineral survey situations, shed insight on record research, and provide thought provoking choices when evaluating conflicting and/or lost mineral survey corner locations.
Homestead Entry Surveys (HES) was a special survey performed initially by General Land Office (GLO) surveyors. The purpose, general plan, survey and monumentation of HES's are unique and demands special attention when resurvey work is performed. Actual HES survey situations will be presented to provide a better understanding of this special breed of survey. This seminar will provide a better understanding of Mineral and Homestead Entry Surveys along with insight to alternative recovery and restoration methods for the retracement surveyor.
About the Speaker: Steve Parrish, PLS
Mr. Parrish has been active in land surveying since 1963 and acquired his first state registration as a land surveyor in 1973. He has extensive public land survey experience throughout much of the western United States and is registered in seven states. After 20 years of land surveying with the U.S. Forest Service, specializing in boundary surveys, he transferred to the U. S. Bureau of Land Management (1985). He was Geographic Coordinate Date Base (GCDB) project manager for BLM-Nevada in 1989. He served as Chief, Branch of Cadastral Surveys, for BLM-Nevada from December 1989 until his retirement in October 1995. Steve’s service as a federal surveyor provided a broad platform of experience in land surveying techniques, evidence evaluation, management and documentation of a variety of survey systems. He is an active lecturer/writer and shares his 35+ years of land surveying knowledge and experience through active participation in land survey seminars, consulting, and expert witness testimony. Steve continues to expand his survey experience through private consulting services in construction, boundary, survey research/analysis and mineral survey related projects. He joined Tri State Surveying, in Sparks, Nevada in 1999 and spends most of his time in the capacity as an expert witness. A considerable portion of his recent private survey experience has been accomplished with GPS technologies.
Professional Liability Issues Affecting Professional Surveyors
A participant who successfully completes the eight hours of instruction will be able to:
Handout material will include a notebook containing various handouts: outline, PowerPoint notes, full text of numerous legal cases focusing on surveyor’s liability issues, etc. Attendees will be able to follow-up their seminar participation at any time by contacting the instructor via e-mail or by visiting the course’s web site.
About the Speaker: Professor David A. Wahlstrom, JD, MS, PLS
Professor Wahlstrom is an Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Mechanical, and Related Technologies, College of Technology, University of Houston, Houston, Texas. He presently delivers classroom instruction in construction management, surveying and mapping, and advanced computer aided design subjects at the bachelor’s degree level, and taught previously at Purdue University. He is also the Director of the Intergraph Training Center at the University of Houston where he administrates an industry oriented training center for Intergraph software and hardware products. He has served as an expert analyzer on boundary line projects, as a construction manager on various projects as well as principal engineer and land surveyor on a variety of subdivision, construction and boundary survey projects. He also has had supervisory experience in civil engineering and land surveying during stints with the National Park Service in Denver, Colorado. Professor Wahlstrom is a Professional Engineer, a Professional Land Surveyor (including Colorado) and was awarded a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Indiana University in 1983. He is a fellow in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
INSTRUCTORS AND SEMINARS
Survey Report Writing
The attendees will learn about the mechanics of creating a Survey Report in order to provide documentation about the particular surveying project and potentially protect the land surveyor in the event of litigation. A review of the items that should be included in a survey report, definition of a survey report, arguments for and against preparing and recording reports and areas to cover in a survey report will be presented and discussed.
About the Speaker: Gordon Bell, PLS
Mr. Bell is the owner of a Surveying and Mapping Firm in French Lick, Indiana (Bell Land Trust & Development Company). After serving 16 years in the military, Mr. Bell received a Masters Degree in Surveying and Mapping from Purdue University. Mr. Bell’s multi-faceted land surveying and consulting firm is engaged in boundary surveys; site plans; subdivision design, layout, and construction; construction surveys; mortgage inspections; GPS control surveys; land use consulting; and providing expert witness testimony in a multi-state area. A Registered Surveyor in Indiana since 1994 and in Kentucky since 1997, Mr. Bell was named as one of 24 Distinguished Surveyors in the state by the Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors (ISPLS) in 1996 and again named as one of 26 Distinguished Surveyors in the State in 1998.
Refresher Course On NCESS PLS & SI Exams
Need to review the fundamentals? Don't know what to study? Don't know how to study? Pondering your
professional future? Scared and confused by the NCEES licensing exams? Don't know which way to turn? Even
if you are ready, this seminar could help you to your goal. The NCEES promotes the "3-E" path toward
licensure. Those are education, experience and examination. This seminar will present guidelines leading
to a better understanding of what you face on this path. It will be 8 hours of hard charging, hands-on learning.
Bring your calculator and surveying books. The morning will be spent examining and understanding the NCEES process
itself and will lead to a quiz to test your self-progress to this date. The afternoon session will be spent reviewing
different types of problems and questions one might encounter on the actual exams. Bring your own examples to share
with the group.
About the Speaker: Bill McComber, PLS
Mr. McComber is a Professional Land Surveyor with Bell Surveying Company in Denver, Colorado. He has over 30 years of experience in all aspects of land surveying with an emphasis on boundary surveys and commercial & residential development. He has worked extensively in PLSS and Colonial States. Since 1983, Mr. McComber has chaired and taught the Professional Land Surveyors of Colorado (PLSC) sponsored Land Surveying Refresher Course to over 800 participants. He has conducted seminars on Case Law and Construing Descriptions as well as the NCEES Exams. Mr. McComber is a columnist for SIDE SHOTS, PLSC’s quarterly journal, and has had articles published in several national journals. He has also served as a reviewer for articles for ACSM publications. He is active in various professional organizations and is a current director of the Central Colorado Professional Surveyors (CCPS) chapter of PLSC. Mr. McComber has also served as President, Vice-President and Director of PLSC.