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APD is currently offering the following seminars in an area near you.

Field Practices – Mean High-water Surveying for Professional Land Surveyors
Rapid-fire, two-day, 24 credit hour workshop designed for the modern land surveyor. Course combines a vigorous mix of classroom and field training to prepare the survey professional with the background,  foundation knowledge, and practical experience to accurately establish legally-defensible tidal datums.

Instructor: Douglas A. Thompson, Professional Surveyor and Mapper
Credit Hours: 24
Prerequisite: None

• The coast and our pursuit of happiness - modern man’s love affair with the shoreline.

• Why mean high water surveying is necessary while locating boundary lines of property adjacent to a tidal water body.

• Astronomical factors effecting tides and currents.

• Coastal Mapping Act of 1974, Chapter 177, part II, F.S.

• The Public Trust Doctrine - What is it? Who cares?

• The National Tidal Datum Convention of 1980 and its relevance to the professional land surveyor.

• The NOS Tide and Current Glossary.

• Methods and Applications of accepted tidal studies.

• Procedural methodology of conducting your own legally-defensible Mean High Water study.

• Liabilities and ethical responsibilities to your profession and your client.

• Perform boundary survey of a riparian property.

• Logistics and planning – the right way, the first time, every time.

• Extension of published tidal datums.

• Interpolation between tide stations.

• Height Difference tide studies.

• Amplitude Ratio tide studies.

• Range Ratio tide studies.

• Discussion - why, when, and where to conduct.

Field Practices:

• Installation of tide staffs at pre-selected locations.

• Establishment of level ties to NAVD88/NGVD29.

• observation of high waters/low waters during three consecutive tide cycles.

• Recording water levels on Mean High Water Data Collection Package forms.

• Computation of mean high water elevation using three different methods at various subordinate tide stations

Tides – Arising again in 2003!
One-of-a-kind, six hour participatory discussion seminar for the modern land surveyor.  This course is designed to assist land surveyors in establishing legally defensible tidal boundaries. Classroom discussions feature The Public Trust Doctrine, case law, New Jersey Tidelands and DOT tidal practices, tidal characteristics, methodologies and computations.

Instructor: Douglas A. Thompson, Professional Surveyor and Mapper
Credit Hours: 6
Prerequisite: None

This seminar is the perfect choice of surveyors looking for:

• Live, fast - paced training program of tidal boundary surveying
• Technology transfer on the new National Tidal Datum Epoch 1983-2001
• Field data collection methods using the new self-reading gravity tide staff system

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