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Kansas Society of Land Surveyors &
Missouri Society of Professional Surveyors
Bi-State Joint Conference
Sheraton Overland Park Hotel at the Convention Center
Overland Park, KS
October 23-25, 2014
Expanding
Surveyors’
Horizons
Through
Education
Thursday, October 23, 2014
7:00 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 10:00 am
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Minimum Standards - Missouri
The minimum standards provide the surveyor and recipient of boundary surveys with a realistic
guideline for adequate survey performance. The minimum standards apply to all property boundary
surveys made for determining the location of land boundaries and land boundary corners, but do not
apply to preliminary plats or plans, plot plans, engineering surveys; geodetic surveys; or
cartographic surveys, or Surveyor’s Real Property Report.
Speaker: J. Michael Flowers
FEMA Flood Elevation Certifications
The two hour class will go over completion of the elevation certificate form. Class will go through
elevation certificate forms line by line to discuss accurate completion of the forms. Special attention
will be placed on building diagrams and base flood elevations. These are two areas that have caused
some problems in the past and resulted in property owners having greatly increased flood insurance
premiums.
AGENDA
Speaker: Steve Samuelson, Kansas Department of Agriculture; Scott Zeller, Missouri
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); Dale Schmutzler, Missouri Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
10:00 - 10:15 am
Break
10:15 - 12:15 pm
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Minimum Standards - Kansas
This course will discuss the creation of the Minimum Standards, including a brief history and keys to
interpreting their meaning. This class will meet your 2 hour requirements for Kansas Minimum
Standards.
Speaker: J. Paul Maurin
FEMA Flood Elevation Certifications continued
12:15 - 1:00 pm
Luncheon
1:00 pm
Golf Tournament at Deer Creek Golf Club
2:00 pm
Sporting Clay Shoot at Cedar Hill Gun Club
All Proceeds benefitting the KSLS Charitable Foundation and the MSPS Scholarship Foundation .
1:00 - 3:00 pm
History and Differences of DOTs - Right of Way Establishment
Speaker: Bill Haverkamp, Kansas Department of Transportation; Brad McCloud,
Missouri Department of Transportation
3:00 - 3:30 pm
Break
3:30 - 4:30 pm
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
New Technology - Trimble and Seiler Instrument Company
This session will focus on new technology available from Trimble and Seiler Instrument Company.
Some of the things discussed will be the V10 Imaging Rover, the R10 GNSS receiver, the S6 robotic
total station with Vision technology and the new features in Trimble Access and Trimble Business
Center software.
Speaker: Tom Bryant
Leica-Laser Specialists
Speaker: XXX
4:30 - 5:30 pm
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Preparing Data for 3D Scanning Operations - A Lucrative Revenue Source for the
Modern Land Surveyor
Most new dozers, motor graders, and excavators are being shipped from the factories with machine
control hardware and software already installed. These machines cannot work properly without
quality data files. Preparation of these data files can be a new revenue stream for a land surveyor.
This class will teach you how to clean up the data files submitted by the engineer or architect and
then prepare them for use in machines with Trimble, Topcon, Carlson, or Lieca machine control. We
will take you through the entire process using Carlson Survey/Civil to open up a raw DWG file and
produce the data files in the proper file format for the machines.
Speaker: Jim Martin, General Manager, Griner and Schmitz, Inc.; Aaron Newman,
Midwest Territory Manager, Carlson Software
ALTUS
Speaker: XXX
5:30 - 7:00 pm
Exhibitor Set-Up and Reception (cash bar)
Friday, October 24, 2014
Registration and Continental Breakfast with Exhibitor
8:00 - 9:30 am
Keynote Session
Speaker: David Widmer, NCEES President-Elect; Curt Sumner, NSPS Executive Director
9:30 - 10:00 am
Break to View Exhibits
10:00 - 11:30 am
MSPS Business Meeting/KSLS Business Meeting
11:30 - 1:00 pm
Awards Luncheon
1:00 - 5:00 pm
Education Panel: As It Is Now, 4-Year Degree and the Alternative
Linn State Technical College, Missouri; Butler County Community College, Kansas
(invited); University of Wyoming-Online (invited); Texas A&M at Corpus Christi; Kansas
Board Representative and Missouri Board Representative
Moderator: Joe Paiva, GeoLearn, LLC
5:00 - 6:00 pm
Reception with Exhibitors
Saturday, October 25, 2014
7:00 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors
8:00 - 10:00 am
Modernization of the National Spatial Reference System Keeping Pace with
Changes in Positioning Technology and User Expectations in a Dynamic World
During the next decade enhancements and additions to the network of Global Navigation Satellite
Systems (GNSS) including; the U.S. NAVSTAR Global Positioning System, Russian GLONASS, European
Union GALILEO and China's BeiDou will significantly improve the use of space-based positioning
systems for surveying, mapping, charting, navigation and innumerable other applications. In order
to meet the anticipated demands for an improved geospatial framework that these developments
will require, the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) is implementing a plan for the modernization of the
National Spatial Reference System (NSRS).
Speaker: David Doyle, NGS Chief Geodetic Surveyor (retired), Base 9 Geodetic
Consulting Services
10:00 - 10:30
Break
10:30 - 12:30 pm
Modernization of the National Spatial Reference System continued
12:30 - 1:00 pm
Luncheon
1:00 - 3:00 pm
Missouri vs. Kansas Border Wars: A Comparison of Their USPLSS
From reading about of the U.S. Public Land Survey System in most surveying textbooks, one would
get the impression the system is simple, regular and was uniformly applied from the Midwestern
states on west: Some USPLSS myths include: All Guide Meridians and Standard Parallels are
AGENDA
7:00 am
regularly spaced. All Townships have 36 sections and all Sections are a mile square and contain 640
acres. Yes, the textbook says there are a few exceptions, but they are not explained. The two
presenters, Elgin for Missouri and Brosemer for Kansas, go back and forth, discussing and comparing
the different components of the USPLSS for the two states, how they were surveyed and how they
differ. Both are surveying practitioners, teachers and authors. The seminar will be of particular
benefit to those intending to become licensed in either of those states. And, will probably contain new
information, even to those already licensed.
Speakers: Dick Elgin; Steve Brosemer, Geotech, Inc.
Break
3:30 - 5:30 pm
Missouri VS Kansas - Comparison of USPLSS continued
5:30 pm
Adjourn
AGENDA
3:00 - 3:30 pm
Education is an
admirable thing, but it is
well to remember from
time to time that nothing
that is worth knowing
can be taught
- Oscar Wilde
Education is the most
powerful weapon which
you can use to change the
world.
- Nelson Mandela
The roots of education
are bitter, but the fruit is
sweet.
- Aristotle
Steve Brosemer, PS, owner of Geotech, Inc, was licensed by examination in 1980. He is a graduate of Wichita State University in History and Secondary
Education. Steve has been an owner and partner of Geotech for over thirty years. He has provided land surveying services to both private and public sectors.
Professionally Steve has served as President of the Kansas Society of Land Surveyors in 1988 and 1989. He is currently a member of the KSLS Charitable
Foundation Board and a land surveyor member of the Kansas State Board of Technical Professions. He is a regular presenter of seminars to licensed land
surveyors and other related professions. Steve is also a past chair of the Emporia Area Chamber of Commerce and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Lyon
County Historical Society. Steve also performs historical re-enactments at various events as a GLO Surveyor.
Tom Bryant is a professional land surveyor with more than 30 years of experience working in surveying. He graduated from Southeast Missouri State
University in 1978 with a Bachelor of General Studies degree, studied at the University of Missouri-Rolla under Dr. Richard Elgin, and graduated from the
University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, where he studied under Dr. David Knowles, with an Associates degree in Surveying in 1984. Tom worked for several
surveying and engineering companies in the Saint Louis area, implementing field to finish techniques, robotics and GPS into daily usage, until 2005 when he
became employed by Siler Instrument Company to head their Technical Support and Training activities in Saint Louis. In April of 2008, Seiler Instrument
Company was awarded the contract to build and implement a state wide Real time VRS network for the Missouri Department of Transportation and Tom was
assigned the position of Project Manager tasked with getting the Missouri Real Time Network operational. This was accomplished on February 1, 2010. Tom is a
past President and newsletter editor for the Saint Louis chapter of MSPS, and has been a presenter at several MSPS workshops. Since October of 2010, Tom has
been Technical Support and Training Manager for Seiler Instrument Company’s Survey Division.
Dave Doyle joined the National Geodetic Survey in 1972, and held the position of chief geodetic surveyor until his retirement in January, 2013. He was
responsible for the development, technical design and management of plans and programs that enhance the United States National Spatial Reference System. He
has provided technical assistance in Geodesy to International, Federal, State and local surveying, mapping and GIS agencies.
Dick Elgin is a second-generation surveyor, and was raised in his father's surveying business in Rolla, Missouri. After serving meritoriously as an Army
helicopter pilot in Vietnam, he returned to Rolla and received the degrees B.S. and M.S. in civil engineering from the Missouri University of Science and
Technology (S&T). After working for a consulting engineer in the Kansas City area for several years, he attended the University of Arkansas and received the
degree Doctor of Philosophy. Leaving Arkansas, he joined the faculty of the Department of Civil Engineering at S&T as an Assistant Professor (1980-1984). He
currently serves as an Adjunct Professor at the school. He is a former member of the Missouri Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land
Surveyors and Landscape Architects. From 1984 until 2008, Dick was the President and owner of Elgin Surveying & Engineering, Inc. in Rolla. He currently
works for Archer-Elgin Engineering, Surveying and Architecture in Rolla. Dr. Elgin is a member and past president of Missouri Society of Professional Surveyors
(MSPS). He is a member of S&T’s Academy of Civil Engineers, and its Order of the Golden Shillelagh. He is a recipient of the "Presidents Award" from ACSM, and
MSPS’s "Robert E. Myers Service Award". Dick is the author of “The U.S. Public Land Survey System for Missouri.”
Bill Haverkamp, L.S., is the Survey Coordinator for the Kansas Department of Transportation. He began his surveying career in 1977 on a KDOT preliminary
design crew, became licensed in 1986, and has been in his present position since Nov, 1990. He is past president and board member of the Kansas Society of
Land Surveyors.
J. Paul Maurin began his surveying career in 1994 working part time during the summer for Rhodes Land Surveying. He graduated from Benedictine College in
1998 with a BA in Sociology, later graduating from Washburn University School of Law in 2003. Paul practiced law for two years specializing in insurance
defense and real estate. In 2006 he became Assistant Right of Way Supervisor at Aquila and in 2008 became the Right of Way Specialist with the Kansas City
Power and Light.
Bradley McCloud is a Professional Land Surveyor with combined experience in route, office, construction, and boundary surveying that encompasses almost 18
years. He is currently the Land Survey Coordinator for the Missouri Department of Transportation. In this role Brad is responsible for overseeing the
Departments’ Land, Route and Construction surveying policies for MoDOT. He is also the lead contact for department on all surveying matters.
Dr. Joseph V.R. Paiva, is principal and CEO at GeoLearn, LLC (www.geo-learn.com) which is an online provider of professional and technical education since
February 2014. He is also faculty at GeoLearn, teaching courses on a wide variety of topics including unmanned airborne systems (UAS), state plane coordinates
system use, errors analysis, instrumentation theory and practical use. He also instructs courses across the surveying spectrum for those preparing to take the
FS, PS and state specific parts of the land surveying licensing examination.
Steve Samuelson, CFM, has been the National Flood Insurance Program Specialist at Kansas Department of Agriculture/Division of Water Resources since
2007. From 2005 to 2007 Steve worked for Lyon County as the Zoning Administrator and Floodplain Manager. Steve graduated from Emporia State University
in 1982, and is a Certified Floodplain Manager.
Dale Schmutzler
Curtis W. (Curt) Sumner is the Executive Director of the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS) whose mission is serving the interests of
professional surveyors nationwide, and in their relationships internationally. He is a primary point of contact and liaison for the surveying profession with
numerous national and state organizations in the geospatial community and the U. S. Congress, and is a member of the NSPS/ACSM Delegation to the
International Federation of Surveyors (FIG).
David Widmer is currently the President of Widmer Engineering Inc., with offices in Beaver Falls, Beaver County, Connellsville, Fayette County and
Washington, Washington County. As President of the firm, he is responsible for human resources, finance, policy decisions and general profitability. Mr.
Widmer has been involved with the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) since he first attended a zone meeting in 1992 and
his first annual meeting in Portland, Oregon that same year. He has served on the Law Enforcement Committee, Uniform Procedures and Legislative Guidelines
Committee, Finance Committee, and Nominations Committee. Mr. Widmer served as the Northeast Zone Vice President from 2009 until his election as National
Treasurer of NCEES, He has been a member of the Board of Directors of NCEES since 2009 and was elected President-Elect of NCEES in August of 2013. He has
devoted the past 22 years to NCEES and values the many professional colleagues he has gotten to know and work with along the way.
Scott Zeller, EIT, CFM is the Floodplain Management Section Engineer for the Floodplain Management Section of the State Emergency Management Agency
(SEMA). As floodplain engineer, Mr. Zeller is currently responsible for aiding local officials, consulting engineers, and other interested parties to comply with
the rules and regulations of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Daily activities include explaining the different Letter of Map Change (LMOC)
processes, reviewing of technical data submitted to communities for compliance, and aide in determining Base Flood Elevations (BFE’s) for participating
communities. Mr. Zeller is also SEMA’s Cooperating Technical Program (CTP) coordinator. These duties include communication with FEMA on engineering
related activities as well as outreach to counties and/or communities. Mr. Zeller earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of
Missouri/Columbia in 2004. Mr. Zeller is a Registered Engineer In Training (E.I.T.) in the State of Missouri (plans to sit for the P.E. exam) and is also a Certified
Floodplain Manager (CFM). Further, he is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Association of State Floodplain Managers
(ASFPM).
SPEAKERS
J. Michael (Mike) Flowers retired in June 2008 from the position of the Missouri State Land Surveyor, within the Missouri Department of Natural Resources,
Division of Geology and Land Survey. Mike was also the Director of the Land Survey Program. Mike began his surveying career as a technician in 1970 at Big
Piney Surveying and Engineering in Houston, Missouri. During his tenure with the Land Survey Program he served as a Land Survey Technician, Project
Surveyor, State Parks Surveyor and Geodetic Section Chief. Mike was appointed as the State Land Surveyor in 1997. He currently serves as a member of the
Land Survey Division of the Missouri Board of Architects, Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and Landscape Architects.
Registration Information
Golf Tournament
Registration fee is $300 for Members and $550 for
You may pick a partner or foursome. If you do not
Non-Members. Deadline for registration is
have a partner, one will be provided to you. The
October 9, 2014.
format will be a four-person scramble with a shotgun
After this date, a 10% processing fee will be added to start. The cost is $75 per person includes 18 holes,
registration fees.
cart and two mulligans.
GENERAL INFORMATION
The fee includes instructional materials, refreshment
breaks, luncheon each day(3), cocktail reception and
three continental breakfasts.
Deer Creek Golf Club
7000 W. 133rd Street
Leawood, KS 66209
913-681-3100
To register, complete the attached form and mail it
with your payment to: MSPS, PO Box 1342, Jefferson Proper golf attire requires collared shirts at all times.
City, MO 65102. For more information on this course, Each player is required to have their own golf bag and
call Sandra Boeckman at 573-635-9446.
set of clubs. If you need to rent a golf bag and clubs, an
additional charge will apply.
Each Registration Includes
 All Sessions
Sporting Clay Shoot
 Up to 21.5 PDUs/PDHs
All proceeds from the clay shoot will benefit the
 Session Handouts
Scholarship Funds of the KSLS Charitible Foundation
 Breaks With Exhibitors
and the MSPS Scholarship Foundation. The clay shoot
 Three Lunches/Three Breakfasts
will be held rain or shine. The cost is $50 per shooter
 Cocktail Reception With Exhibitors
and/or $100 to be a station sponsor.
 Opportunity to Socialize With Your Peers
Cedar Hill Gun Club
918 E. 1650 Road
Location and Lodging Accommodations
Baldwin, KS 66006
The Sheraton Overland Park Hotel at the Convention
Center in Overland Park, KS, is the site for the 2014
Bi-State Joint Conference of MSPS and KSLS. A special
Dress
room rate of $109 for single or double room has been Men’s business casual: casual pants with a collared
extended until October 9, 2014.
shirt or golf shirt; women’s business casual: slacks,
skirts, dress or Capri’s.
Spouses
A hospitality room will be provided on Thursday,
Friday and Saturday from 8 am to 5 pm.
Cancellation Policy
Reservations can be made by calling
800-837-4214 or by visiting
http://www.starwoodhotels.com/sheraton/
Professional Development
Units/Continuing Education
Missouri has approved this course for 21.5 PDUs by
the Missouri Board of Architects, Professional
Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors and
Landscape Architects.
Kansas has approved this course for 20 PDHs to be
used for continuing education requirements for the
KSBTP. The two hour Minimum Standards Class has
been approved from the KSBTP.
We reserve the right to cancel the program and
return all fees in the event of insufficient registration.
A participant may cancel a registration up to two
weeks before the course date and receive a full
refund.
NO REFUNDS AFTER OCTOBER 9, 2014.
For More Information
Sandra Boeckman, MSPS Executive Director
Phone: 573-635-9446
Email: msps@missourisurveyor.org
Please send all registration materials to
MSPS, PO Box 1342, Jefferson City, MO 65102 or fax
to 573-635-7823.
REGISTRATION
Please Type or Print
Name: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Firm: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Address: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
City/State/Zip: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Phone: ___________________________________________________ Fax: _____________________________________________________
PLS Number: ____________________ Email Address: _________________________________________________________________
Member Convention Registration Fees
Member Registration - 3 Days (MSPS or KSLS)
$300.00
$ __________
Thursday Only
$100.00
$ __________
Thursday Morning Only
$50.00
$ __________
Thursday Afternoon Only
$50.00
$ __________
Friday Only
$100.00
$ __________
Saturday Only
$100.00
$ __________
Non Member Registration - 3 Days (MSPS or KSLS)
$550.00
$ __________
Thursday Only (morning or afternoon
$200.00
$ __________
Thursday Morning Only
$100.00
$ __________
Thursday Afternoon Only
$100.00
$ __________
Friday Only
$150.00
$ __________
Saturday Only
$200.00
$ __________
Past Presidents Breakfast (Kansas & Missouri)
$15.00
$ __________
(Check all that apply)
Golf (Includes Cart & Two Mulligans)
$75.00
$ __________
Clay Shoot
$50.00
$ __________
❒ Missouri (MSPS)
❒ Kansas (KSPS)
Clay Shoot Sponsor
$100.00
$ __________
Non Member Convention Registration Fees
Optional Activities
Concurrent Sessions
(Check one per time slot)
Thursday, 8:00 - 10:00 am
❒ Minimum Standards - MO
❒ FEMA Flood Evaluation
Thursday, 10:30 - 12:30 pm
❒ Minimum Standards - KS
❒ FEMA Flood Evaluation
Thursday, 3:30 - 4:30 pm
❒ Trimble-Seiler
❒ Leica-Laser Specialists
Thursday, 4:30 - 5:30 pm
❒ Topcon/Sokkia-Griner
❒ ALTUS
Membership
Sub-Total $ __________
10% Surcharge for Late Registration (After 10/9) $ __________
Grand Total $ __________
Payment Information
❒ Charge my Credit Card
❒ Check Enclosed
❒ Invoice my Organization
Credit Card #: ____________________________________________________________ Expiration Date: ___________________
To Register, mail this form with your payment to MSPS, PO Box 1342, Jefferson City, MO 65102 or fax your
form with credit card information to 573-635-7823. For questions or to register by phone call 573-635-9446.
Registration Deadline is October 9, 2014
Thursday, October 23, 2014
ROOM ASSIGNMENT
7:00 am
Registration
Lobby
Continental Breakfast
Cottonwood 1 & 2
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Spouses Hospitality Room
TBD
8:00 am - 12:15 pm
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
“Minimum Standards Missouri”/”Minimum Standards Kansas”
Cottonwood 3
“FEMA Flood Elevation Certifications”
Leatherwood 1 & 2
12:15 - 1:00 pm
Lunch
Cottonwood 1 & 2
1:00 pm
Golf Tournament at Deer Creek Golf Club
2:00 pm
Clay Shoot at Cedar Hill Gold Club
1:00 - 3:00 pm
History and Differences of DOTs
3:30 - 5:30 pm
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
5:30 -7:00 pm
Cottonwood 1 & 2
Trimble and Seiler/Topcon with Sokkia-Griner and Schmitz
Cottonwood 3
Leica-Laser Specialists/ALTUS
Leatherwood 1 & 2
Exhibitor Set-up and Reception
Cottonwood 1 & 2
Friday, October 24, 2014
7:00 am
Registration
Lobby
Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors
Cottonwood 1 & 2
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Spouses Hospitality Room
TBD
8:00 - 9:30 am
KEYNOTE SESSION
Cottonwood 1 & 2
10:00 - 11:30 am
Missouri Business Meeting
Cottonwood 3
Kansas Business Meeting
Leatherwood 1 & 2
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Awards Luncheon and View Exhibits
Cottonwood 1 & 2
1:00 - 5:00 pm
“Education Panel: As It Is Now, 4-Year Degree and Alternative”
Cottonwood 1 & 2
5:00 - 6:00 pm
Reception with Exhibitors
Cottonwood 1 & 2
Saturday, October 25, 2014
7:00 am
Registration
Lobby
Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors
Cottonwood 1 & 2
Past President’s Breakfast
TBD
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Spouses Hospitality Room
TBD
8:00 am - 10:00 pm
“Modernization of the National Spatial Reference System”
Cottonwood 3
12:30 - 1:00 pm
Lunch
Cottonwood 1 & 2
1:00 - 5:30 pm
“Missouri vs. Kansas Border Wars: A Comparison of Their USPLSS”
Cottonwood 1 & 2