Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast
by National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS)
Want to hear from the movers and shakers of the surveying profession? Each week, NSPS brings you conversations with the trendsetters and difference-makers that are helping to shape the world of surveying. Your host, NSPS Executive Director Tim Burch sits down with various personalities to discuss all things surveying, all bundled in a 30-minute conversation.
Episodes
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EP241 Duncan Hawksbee - Chartered Institute of Civil Engineering Surveyors (CICES)
In this episode of Surveyor Says, host Tim Burch interviews Duncan Hawksbee, Americas Region Chair for the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (CICES). Hawksbee explains that the UK defines surveying far more broadly than the U.S. boundary-centric model by integrating both...
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EP240 Sponsor Spotlight! Control Point Associates - Ken Stigner, PLS, PP
This week’s episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" highlights one of our Diamond Sponsors, Control Point Associates (CPA), a surveying firm based in Warren, New Jersey. Your host, NSPS Executive Director Tim Burch, recently sat down with Ken Stigner, P.L.S., P.P., Principal of CPA, to hear...
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EP239 Katherine "Kat" O'Buckley - YSN & Scouting Jamboree
Welcome to "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast!" This episode is an interview with Katherine O'Buckley, where host Tim Burch discussed her involvement in surveying, NSPS YSN, and her experience volunteering at the Scouting Jamboree. Katherine shared her generational connection with surveying through...
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EP238 Meet Cara Tryling, PLS - The new NSPS Employee!
In this episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast," host Tim Burch introduces Cara Tryling, the first remote employee for NSPS. Cara shares her background as a licensed surveyor in Ohio and Kentucky, detailing her journey from growing up in a family of surveyors to earning her bachelor's degree...
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EP237 Linda Foster, PLS, GISP, MGIS - A Look Back and to the Future
In this episode of “Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast,” your host Tim Burch sits down with Linda Foster, the immediate past president of NSPS and the Director of Land Records and Cadastral Surveying Solutions at Esri. Together, they look back on a milestone year, reflecting on the major initiatives...
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EP236 Introducing "Between the Stakes" - a new podcast from the NSPS YSN
Join the voices shaping the future of surveying on Between the Stakes Podcast. For Young Surveyors hosted by Young Surveyors. This dynamic series brings together emerging professionals, industry leaders, and innovators to explore the evolving landscape of surveying and geospatial science. Each...
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EP235 NSPS Update - Tim & Trish in the Studio
Even if one reads our newsletter every week, follows us on social media, and also catches up on the news in the monthly Bulletin, chances are you still don't know about everything going on at NSPS! This episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" jumps in the deep end and introduces a new voice…
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EP234 Stewart Ward, PLS - The Business of Surveying
Calling all professional surveying entrepreneurs! Do you often wonder what it takes to run a small surveying business? Do you start from scratch or seek out an existing business for sale? What does it take to make it grow? Do you have what it takes to be a successful business owner? This week's...
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EP233 From the Director's Desk - The Latest in Surveying News
The latest edition of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" gives us an opportunity catch up on the latest news and happenings within our profession. Your host, Tim Burch, provides an update on the recent NSPS Spring Meeting, the 25th Annual National Student Competition, our annual "Day on the Hill"...
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EP232 Dan Young - Idaho BLM Surveyor
Did you know the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Cadastral Survey Program is over 240 years old? "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" does a deep drive into the history of BLM and its predecessor, the General Land Office (GLO). Dan Young, Supervisory Cadastral Surveyor for BLM, joins Tim Burch for a...
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EP231 25th Annual NSPS Student Competition
Hello from the nation's capital! This week's episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" finds us in on the National Mall and throughout the District of Columbia hosting the 25th Annual NSPS Student Competition. Your host, Tim Burch, sat down with various participants, advisors, and sponsors to...
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EP230 Gary Kent - Land Title Survey Standards 2026 - Section 6-8 & Table "A"
Our final portion reviewing of the changes within the 2026 Edition of the updated ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey Standards continues with not one but TWO podcasts this week. "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast." features our resident land title survey expert, Gary Kent, PS, wrapping up Sections 6-8 &...
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EP229 Gary Kent - Land Title Survey Standards 2026 - Section 4-5
Our final portion reviewing of the changes within the 2026 Edition of the updated ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey Standards continues with not one but TWO podcasts this week. "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast." features our resident land title survey expert, Gary Kent, PS, wrapping up Sections 4-5 in...
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EP228 Todd Horton - Survey Technician Training
It may be April 1 on the calendar but we are not fooling around! Technician training is an important topic and "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" is here for you. This week, your host Tim Burch sits down with Todd Horton, PE, PLS, and lead instructor for survey technician training sessions being...
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EP227 Kennedy Williams - Senior @ Cal Poly Pomona
As we wind down to the end of March and Women's History Month, this week's episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" features someone who plans on making a name for her own self. While on location at the Western Region Survey Conference in Las Vegas, Tim Burch sat down with Kennedy Williams, a...
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EP226 John Allen - Allen Business Advisors
The surveying industry is currently grappling with a massive transition of ownership as aging founders near retirement, a situation that threatens local economic stability and the continuity of essential professional services. This week's episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" features John...
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EP225 From the Director's Desk - National Surveyors' Week
This week’s episode of “Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast” is the next installment of “From the Director’s Desk” with your host, NSPS Executive Director Tim Burch and features stories about National Surveyors Week. Tim shares the origin story of how the third week of March became a fixture on the...
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EP224 Milad Sadegi - Survey Technician & LSAW YSN
It is assumed that most surveyors are either born into the profession or discover it during their formidable years of education. Sometime, however, a career change opens one's eye to finding the passionate role their life may have been missing. This week's episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS...
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EP223 GeoWeek 2026 - NSPS Leadership Reflection
This week's episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" finds us in Denver, Colorado wrapping up a great opportunity of promoting our new state affiliate membership drive at GeoWeek 2026. Your host, Tim Burch, sat down with Linda Foster (NSPS President), Tim Murphy (NSPS President-elect), Jeff...
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EP222 Halff Prep Sessions w/ Amanda Jonas & Jib Ahmad
Studying for your professional surveyor licensing test can be a daunting task, so this week's "surveyor Says! THe NSPS Podcast" is here to bring you much needed information. Your host, Tim Burch, caught up with Amanda Jonas, RPLS, and Jib Ahmad, LSLS, RPLS, PLS, LS, CFM, from Halff who has been...
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EP221 Gary Kent - Land Title Survey Standards 2026 - Section 3
Now we are getting down to serious business! Our review of the changes within the 2026 Edition of the updated ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey Standards continues on "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast." Our resident land title survey expert, Gary Kent, PS., gets deeper into the revisions with Section 3,...
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EP220 Gary Kent - Land Title Survey Standards 2026 - Section 2
As we continue to review the changes to the 2026 Edition of the updated ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey Standards, "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" continues with our resident guru, Gary Kent, PS. Your host, Tim Burch, spoke with Gary to discuss despite how little has changed with Section 2 "Request...
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EP219 Gary Kent - Land Title Survey Standards 2026
Has it been five years already? It has, so we must prepare for the 2026 Edition of the updated ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey Standards. This week's episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" catches up with a central figure in these standards, Gary Kent, PS, to give an overview into the reasoning...
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EP218 Ryan Hippensteil - DroneDeploy
Greetings from the "Big Easy!" This week's episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" finds us in New Orleans attending the 2025 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Conference. With over 20K attendees, it was great to run across this week's guest, Ryan Hippenstiel, Surveyor-in-Residence -...
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EP217 From the Director's Desk - January 2026
This episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" finds your host, Tim Burch, providing news and other updates for this episode of "From the Director's Desk." Among the topics covered today: NSPS Election Announcement Scholarship Deadline! ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey Standards Lobby Day 2026 -...
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EP216 NSPS YSN Candidates 2028
And now for something completely different! This episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" turns the reigns over to the NSPS Young Surveyors Network (YSN) and features a Q&A session with the 2026 Vice President candidates, Luke Woodyard and Zach Holshuer. The current YSN officers, President…
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EP215 Cotton Jones - Candidate for NSPS VP
We wind up our interviews with the NSPS 2026 Election candidates with this episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" featuring Cotton Jones, PLS, Director from Wyoming and candidate for Vice President. Our host, Tim Burch, caught up with Cotton to talk about his path into surveying and...
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EP214 Anthony "Rich" Vannozzi - Candidate for NSPS VP
Continuing with our interviews with the NSPS 2026 Election candidates, this week's episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" introduces Anthony "Rich" Vannozzi, PLS, candidate for Vice President. Our host, Tim Burch, recently sat down with Rich to chat about his career in surveying AND...
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EP213 Dan Martinez - Candidate for NSPS Secreatry
As we approach the end of the year, it can only mean one thing: Election Time! This week's episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" begins our discussions with candidates for the 2026 Elections by introducing Dan Martinez, PLS, and the Nebraska Director for a number of years. Our host, Time...
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EP212 Davey Edwards @ Trimble Dimensions
Greetings from Las Vegas! This week's episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" finds us in Sin City attending this year's edition of Trimble Dimensions. Your host, Tim Burch, sat down with NSPS Past President Davey Edwards to chat about his time in association leadership, blending a private...
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EP211 NSPS / FIG YSN Americas Conference - Panel Discussion
Our first "LIVE" podcast in front of a conference audience! This episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" finds us at the 2nd Young Surveyors America Meeting hosted jointly by the NSPS and FIG Young Surveyor Networks (YSN) in Bloomington, Minnesota. Your host, Tim Burch, moderated a panel...
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EP210 John Brady - Life as an Alaskan surveyor
This week's episode of "Surveyor Says! THe NSPS Podcast" gives us an opportunity to chat with a true adventurer of a surveyor. John Brady, owner of Bradis in Fairbanks, Alaska, has been sharing his worksites throughout the Last Frontier for several years. Our host, Tim Burch, recently chatted…
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EP209 - From the Director's Desk
This episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" finds your host, Tim Burch, providing news and other updates for his episode of "From the Director's Desk." Among the topics covered today: Government Shutdown News from Intergeo in Germany Update on several Supreme Court cases NCEES…
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EP208 - Patti & Ricky Brooks - Control Point Associates, Inc.
Hello from the Empire State! This week's episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" finds us in the mid-Hudson River Valley at the office of Control Point Associates to speak with Patti and Ricky Brooks. Patti is the NSPS Treasurer (after several years as NSPS Director for NY) while Ricky has...
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EP207 Cal Poly Pomona - Student Chapter
"Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" is coming to you on location again! This time, we have traveled to Cal Poly Pomona to meet with the NSPS Student Chapter during their annual conference and exhibition. Tim Burch spent a bit of time with the enthusiastic group as they discussed the program, how…
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EP206 Kimberly Odom, PSM - Delta Land Surveyors, LLC
This week, we feature a special surveyor who is more than doing her part to promote the profession and help educate our future surveyors! "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" finds us chatting with Kimberly Odom, PSM and owner of Delta Land Surveyors in Monticello, FL. She leads the way with the...
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EP205 Woody Money PSM, GISP - Surveyor @ NAVFAC
We met today's guest at the Esri UC25 while enjoying the Special Interest Group (SIG) session on surveying hosted by our own Linda Foster. This episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" highlights the recent conversation with Woodrow "Woody" Money, PSM, GISP, and Surveyor at NAVFAC SE…
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EP204 - Seneca Holland
Hello from the Esri UC25 in sunny San Diego! "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" gave us the opportunity to catch up with Seneca Holland, Geospatial Research Scientist & Instructor of Geospatial Science at the Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying and Science located within Texas A&M...
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EP203 - Carl R. C.de Baca - Surveyors & California Fires
This week's episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" takes on the serious subject of surveyors and their role dealing with wildfires. Our guest, Carl C.de Baca, a professional land surveyor with R.E.Y. Engineers, Inc. from Folsom, CA. Carl and Tim recently sat down to discuss conditions of...
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EP202B - NSPS Young Surveyors Network (YSN) Election 2025 - Meet the VP Candidates
Get ready to fill your NSPS Young Surveyors Network (YSN) ballot for new officers! How? Listen to this episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" for a terrific conversation with the two candidates for Vice President, Farrah Etcheverry (Arizona) and Jon Geffre (South Dakota). Lots of great...
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EP202A - NSPS Young Surveyors Network (YSN Election 2025 - Meet the Secretary Candidates
Get ready to fill your NSPS Young Surveyors Network (YSN) ballot for new officers! How? Listen to this episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" for a terrific conversation with the two candidates for Secretary, Stacy Pollock (Michigan) and Adam Thayer (Idaho). Lots of great insights on the...
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EP201 - Patrick Veraguth, Minnesota County Surveyor
This episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" asks the question: what does a county surveyor do? It turns out to be much more than we anticipated! Patrick Veraguth, County Surveyor for Douglas and Grant County (MN), and current president of the National Association of County Surveyors (NACS),...
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EP200 - The NSPS YSN and the Future of Surveying
This week’s recording marks the 200th episode of the “Surveyor Says!” podcast and rather than look back at where we have been, we decided to look ahead to the future of surveying. And who better to have as our guests than the current Young Surveyors Network officers, Nolan Mark, President, Cam...
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EP199 - Carl Bert, PLS - "Training the Next Generation"
"Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" is all about connecting the past, present, and future, so this episode is no exception. Our guest this week is Carl Bert, PLS, a Pennsylvania surveyor who is looking to give back to the profession through mentoring. He recently sat down with Tim Burch to discuss...
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EP198 - Vasileios "Vas" Kalogirou
How does a surveyor get from Greece to Texas? Our "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" episode visits with Vasileios "Vas" Kalogirou, RPLS to hear about his journey. He recently joined Tim Burch to chat about growing up in a surveying family, using his early training as an artillery surveying in the...
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EP197 From the Director's Desk
This episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" finds your host, Tim Burch, providing news and other updates for his episode of "From the Director's Desk." He recaps the last few episodes and shares the latest updates on happenings from the world of NSPS and surveying. Tim provides updates on…
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EP196 - "Surveyor Shortage" - A conversation w/ Parker Zurbuch & Jessica Hess, Vincennes University
This episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" digs into one of the biggest challenges facing the surveying profession, the shortage of surveyors. Our guests come from the Hoosier State via Vincennes University: Parker Zurbuch, SI (student) and Jessica Hess, PS, Program Coordinator, Surveying...
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EP195 - Land Surveyors United
Today's episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" finds us talking with one of the legends in social media for surveyors, Justin Farrow, Founder of Land Surveyors United. Justin, along with collaborator Christopher Lucas and Texas RPLS Deward Bowles, joined Tim Burch to discuss the radical...
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EP194 - Linda Foster - Esri - The Role of GIS and Surveying in a Digital Twin
This week's "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" previews the next session of "Esri and NSPS - Surveyors and GIS Webinar Series" and it's a good one. The host of the series, Linda M. Foster, PLS, GISP, MGIS and Director of Land Records/Cadastre Solutions at Esri, recently joined Tim Burch for to...
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EP193 - Joe Paiva - GeoLearn
NSPS is excited to announce a collaborative initiative with GeoLearn, a leading online education provider for surveyors, so this episode of "Surveyor Says! The NSPS Podcast" features a conversation with Joe Paiva, founder of GeoLearn. This collaboration aims to offer enhanced opportunities for...
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Want to hear from the movers and shakers of the surveying profession? Each week, NSPS brings you conversations with the trendsetters and difference-makers that are helping to shape the world of surveying. Your host, NSPS Executive Director Tim Burch sits down with various personalities to discuss all things surveying, all bundled in a 30-minute conversation.
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