Event Details

Partnership with the South Brunswick Chapter of NCSS

Check-in begins at 7:30 am and concludes at 12:00 pm.  Breakfast will be provided, but not lunch.

Training Topics:

8:00 - 10:00 - Ethics (1PDH) and Standards of Practice (1PDH) by Dean Exline, PLS

10:00 - 12:00 - Datum change, statewide lidar, statewide imagery, and expansion of the CORS network in SE NC by Gary Thompson, PLS

Instructors:

Dean D. Exline is the founder and President of GeoInnovation, PC, with over 30 years of experience as a licensed land surveyor in multiple states and the US Virgin Islands. His expertise spans boundary, construction staking, GPS, and conventional survey control, along with dam deformation measurements, topographic surveys, hydrographic surveys, coal pile quantity surveys, and power line surveys. Currently serving as President of the North Carolina Society of Surveyors (NCSS), he is also a speaker at surveying conferences and an author of technical papers on robotic surveying and GPS applications. He is a professional member of several surveying societies, including the Professional Land Surveyors of Ohio.

Gary W. Thompson is the Deputy Hazard Mitigation Chief, North Carolina Emergency Management/Hazard Mitigation, and Chief of the North Carolina Geodetic Survey/Hazard Mitigation/NC Emergency Management. He has held a professional license as a Professional Land Surveyor (PLS) in North Carolina since 1980. He has served as president of both the North Carolina Society of Surveyors (NCSS) and the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS). Gary is an emeritus member of the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors (NCBEES) and, as of July 2025, serves as a commission member of the ABET Applied and Natural Science Accreditation Commission (ANSAC).