All posts by Gavin Schrock

CERN

“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 the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), holds...

Can You Hear the Shape of a Room?

There is a sort of scientific “sweet spot,” a window of discovery. It occurs when science turns a question into a potential solution to practical problems, even to problems that had been long dismissed as a “bridge too far.” If you can identify this sweet spot, you can trace the scientific roots of an emerging...

Business Leader: SurveyorConnect.com

By Gavin Schrock, PLS Editor’s Note: This article is based on an interview with the talented and dedicated team who have grown a popular forum into an international online community—an invaluable amenity for the surveying profession. Visiting the SurveyorConnect online forum has the feel of a friend’s front porch, a place to have thoughtful conversations: open,...