ACSM Bulletin

No. 218, December 2005

 

ACSM publishes revised Definitions book. Curt Sumner. 6.

Take Note—Keith Clarke receives USGS’ highest award. USGS. 8.

Take Note—New GIS competition for high schools. Gary Jeffress, GLIS

Societies adopt new ALTA/ACSM standard for land title surveys. Gary Kent, Schneider Corporation. 10.

Industry News. Topcon Positioning Systems, Leica Geosystems, Two Technologies, Inc., Trimble Navigation, 3001 Co. 10-17.

Alaska inventories its forests. Chuck Herring, Digital Globe. 24. 

Legislative issues, 2006. Laurence Socci, The C.L.A.G. Group. 25.

Alvin retires. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 31.

Geodesy? What’s that? Part 13 (first half): A new frontierIrene K. Fischer, retired, Army Map Service. 30-38.

Dear Dr. Map. Dr. Map. 39.

Beyond the 100^th meridian—The Cosmos Club. R. Randall, retired. pp. 40.

Funding available from DOD. Katharine R. Kerr, SRDP. 42.

NSPS Foundation Trig-Star Scholarship EndowmentNSPS Foundation, Inc. 43.

2005 in rear view, Ilse Genovese. pp. 46.