All posts by Adam Thayer
Mentoring in the Age of Automation
Above: Darrell Hanners, LSI completes a topographic survey in the mountains of Caribou County, Idaho. As old-timers retire and fewer young people enter surveying, we are at a turning point where mentoring is crucial to the future of the profession, but we will need to adapt to mentor well. Land surveying is an ever-evolving profession....
“Next Big Thing” Essay Winner: Bring the Old and New Together
Bring the Old and New Together The next big thing for the surveying profession is much more than a new instrument or the use of a new technology. To me, it is something much more profound than that. I recently read a statistic in an article printed in the Gem State Surveyor, the quarterly publication...
Higher-ed Profile: Idaho State University
Surveying and Geomatics Engineering Technology By Adam Thayer One of the many things I enjoy about this program at Idaho State University (ISU) is the history and investigations involved with surveying, specifically boundary surveying. There is nothing quite like finding an original stone or visiting a monument that hasn’t been uncovered since it was originally...
