TSPS Chapter 5 Virtual Seminar

 June 17-18 2022

Register Here - Registration Ends Wednesday, June 15th 

Classes Include: 

Friday June 17, 2022

"Surveying Along the Red River" 4PDH (8:00am - 12:00 Noon)

Every prudent surveyor knows that in order to follow in the footsteps of the original surveyor, they need to immerse themselves into a study of how boundaries were 

created and perpetuated throughout the years.

This seminar is designed to briefly lay out the original land grant system and certain caveats that influenced their positions followed by some case studies.

Surveying along the Red River

- Understanding the history of the Red River boundary

- Case Studies: McCurtain County, Bowie County, Lake Texoma, Hall County, Current Status of the 116 mile survey

"Surveying West Texas" 4PDH (1:00pm - 5:00 pm)

Every prudent surveyor knows that in order to follow in the footsteps of the original surveyor, they need to immerse themselves into a study of how boundaries were created and perpetuated throughout the years.

This seminar is designed to briefly lay out the original land grant system and certain caveats that influenced their positions followed by some case studies.

Surveying West Texas

- History

- Case Studies: Loving County, Reeves County, Culberson County

Saturday June 18, 2022

"Professional Ethics for Land Surveyors in 2022" 4PDH (Ethics/Rules)(8:00am - 12:00 Noon)

This course will explore the topic of ethics as it pertains to modern day business and, particularly the profession of land surveying. We’ll look at how the age-old mantra “Following the footsteps” can be applied not only to the field work that we all find so rewarding, but also to our business practice in these demanding times of fast pace and high-technology.

Presented By: 

Friday Seminars Speaker

Davey Edwards PhD, PLS, LSLS, CFedS

Over the last two decades, Dr. Davey Edwards has put together a suite of professional licensure, higher education, and an unprecedented portfolio that has placed him in an elite group of cadastral scientists. Through his company, Land Systems Consulting Group, he provides a highly specialized service in the analysis of original land grant and ambiguous border treaty issues. He has worked in the field and office to reconstruct obliterated land grants with little to no original monumentation and even sparsely detailed notes and he has acquired an expertise in riparian and littoral boundaries that combined with a keen understanding of the original land grant uniqueness has given him the reputation that is sought by legal counsel and governmental officials in Texas and beyond. Davey is currently a professional land surveyor in Texas and Oklahoma. He also has been duly qualified as a Texas licensed state land surveyor and a U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Federal land surveyor (CFedS). He is currently a professional assistant professor in the Geographic Information Systems and Geospatial Systems Engineering programs at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi and is the appointed director of the Texas Spatial Reference Center in the Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science.

Saturday Seminar Speaker

Robert (Robby) Christopher RPLS, LSLS

Robert (Robby) Christopher is a Registered Professional Land Surveyor and Licensed State Land Surveyor in Lubbock, Texas, where he lives with his wife, Donna. He is a partner in the firm Hugo Reed & Associates, Inc. where he started in 1981 under the guidance of the late Tommie Anderson. He currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Engineering Surveying and Special Survey Projects. Mr. Christopher is a founding instructor for the High Plains Experience boundary retracement seminar held annually at Channing, where he teaches Professional Ethics and Surveying the Gradient Boundary. He is a past presenter of several TSPS ethics classes. Mr. Christopher is a long-time member and past president of TSPS Chapter 1 and has served at the state level on various committees, as well as chapter representative and as an elected director for two terms. He is the current President Elect of TSPS.

If you wish to register for these seminar series, please follow the link below

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Funds collected through these Seminar Series are diverted from Chapter 5 to the JOHN PIERCE EDUCATION ASSISTANCE FUND that assists Students with Financial Assistance for scholastic instruction within the practice of land surveying.