Officers: PRESIDENT Craig Roberts (415) 283-8581+9 craigroberts@alumni.calpoly.edu

VICE-PRESIDENT Jan Gill (510) 543-5950 jan.gill@earthlink.net

SECRETARY Silke Jobst 408-265-2607 x-3726 sjobst@valleywater.org

TREASURER Julie Eckman (925) 708-5824 ls8076@gmail.com

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Frank Borges (925) 682-6976 ext. 1036 frank.borges@towill.com NEWSLETTER EDITOR Greg St. John (925) 957-7610 gstjohn@centralsan.org

Inside this issue: February Meeting Announcement 2

Events at a Glance 3

2013 Scholarship 3

LS Review Seminar 4

GPS Workshop 4

January Meeting Minutes 5

Fresno Engineering Conference 6

New 2013 Advertisers 7-9

Job Opportunity 10

Picture of the Month 11

Chapter Membership Form 12

LS Review Form 13

NCC Conference Flyer 14

LSACTS Seminar 15

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California Land Surveyors Association — East Bay

January 2013

Chapter Directors: Steve Martin (2013-2014) Hal Davis (2012-2013) Gwen Gee (2013-2014) Alternates: Janine Hampton (2012-2013) Rich Ray (2013-2014) John May (2013-2014) Committee Chairs: Membership Janine Hampton Scholarship Steve Martin JPPL Gil Hayes LS Exam Review John May Website Greg St. John/Craig Roberts

CHAPTER MEMBERSHIP SPECIAL!!

ALL NEW MEMBERS! California Surveying and Drafting Supply

will give you a $35 gift certificate to reim-burse your Chapter membership fees.*

Get involved with your profession! Chapter Membership Application is attached to this newsletter

Only applies to new members Gift certificates expire after 6 months

East Bay Chapter extends a special Thank You to Bruce Gandleman from CSDS. Thank you for doing your part to keep the profession strong. Sign

up your employees and coworkers!

State membership is separate from Chapter membership.

Send your receipt attention Bruce Gandleman at: marketing@csdsinc.com

Dear CLSA East Bay Members:

The time has come once again to renew your state and chapter membership...or be-come a member! I have attached the membership form which can be submitted at our next meeting or mailed in. The mailing address is on the form. If you have any ques-tions, please email craigroberts@alumni.calpoly.edu.

Craig Roberts President, CLSA East Bay Chapter State Membership comes with benefits including Member Resources on the CLSA website. Click on following link to read more: http://www.californiasurveyors.org/membben.html To Sign up for State Membership online, please follow this link: http://www.californiasurveyors.org/joinclsa.asp

“A Tough Day at the Office” (submitted by Josh Irving, EBRPD)

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FEBRUARY CLSA EAST BAY CHAPTER MEETING! Wednesday, February 13, 2013

6:00pm-7:00pm: Social Hour 7:00pm: Meeting and Dinner

7:30pm: Speaker

Location:

The Englander 101 Parrott St

San Leandro, CA 94577 (510) 357-3571

Dinner:

Prime Rib and Chicken Buffet Cost: $35 per person

RSVP by Noon, Monday, February 11, 2013

to Julie Eckman

LS8076@gmail.com (925) 708-5824

Speaker:

Steve Martin, PLS Steve Martin is currently the Survey Supervisor for the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD),

headquartered in Oakland, CA. He has been Survey Supervisor with EBMUD since 2007. Prior to accepting the position at EBMUD, Mr. Martin was employed by the County of San Diego in increas-ingly responsible roles spanning 17 ½ years. He started his Survey career in 1988 while employed by the City of San Diego as the 4th man on a Survey Crew, a position called “Engineer Trainee”. He has been licensed since 1996 and a CLSA member since 1990. He is currently CLSA East Bay Chap-

ter Director and the Scholarship Committee Chair. Presentation:

An Automated Survey System at San Pablo Dam Raffle:

One of the raffle prizes will be an HP200!

See You at the Meeting on February 13, 2013!

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February 13th: Chapter Meeting: Steve Martin, PLS – An Automated Survey System at San Pablo Dam February 22nd: Northern Counties Chapter Conference: Don D'Onofrio, Steve Martin, Marti Ikehara — Global Positioning

System Surveying March 13th: No Chapter Meeting due to the CLSA Conference March 17th-23rd: National Surveyors Week March 23rd-27th: CLSA/NALS Conference 2013: Silver Legacy, Reno, NV – The Guns That Won the West April 10th: Chapter Meeting: Landon Blake, PLS – GIS Basics for Land Surveyors (with OpenJUMP) May 8th: Chapter Meeting: Neil King – Understanding Geospatial Limits and Private Records & Boundaries

Events at a Glance

Mark Your Calendar! CLSA/NALS Conference

March 23-27, 2013

Silver Legacy Resort & Casino, Reno NV Additional information can be found on the CLSA website

http://www.californiasurveyors.org/conference.html

CLSA/NALS Conference 2013

C hapter members collected at least $600 for a scholarship for Claudia. She is one of the top students at Fresno State and received a number of scholarships in the previous two years. Unfortunately this year her application was rejected along with a few others due to some misunderstandings.

Claudia's home county is Santa Clara County. She has an AS in Mathematics from Reedley College and graduated Cum Laude. She has been the editor of Fore Sight! magazine for the last couple of years and currently serves as President of the NSPS-Fresno State chapter. Claudia is graduating in May of 2013 and plans on pursuing an MBA in the near future.

Congratulations Claudia Barrueta!

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CLSA East Bay Chapter LS Review ClassCLSA East Bay Chapter LS Review Class Mark your Calendars and Spread the Word!

Dates: Saturday Mornings Saturday Mornings 9:00 am to 12:00 pm (noon)

Now through April 13thNow through April 13th To reserve a seat or to help present a topic

Please contact John T. May or Tom Finnigan

John.may@towill.com Raiderman4life@comcast.net

Topic Speaker Date Boundary Determination/ Angela Boyea—John T. May February 9 Simultaneous Conveyances Public Lands Survey System John T. May February 16 Public Lands Survey System John T. May February 23 Photogrammetry Tom Dougherty March 2 Water Boundaries Evan Page March 9 GPS, Geodesy, and Error Analysis Rob McMillan March 16 Laws for the California Land Surveyor Tom Dougherty March 30 State Plane Coordinates Dave Murtha April 6 Practice Exam April 13

A form-fillable .pdf registration form is attached hereto and by this reference made a part hereof.

Northern Counties Chapter presents its annual seminar on Friday, February 22nd, 2013 Speakers include:

Don D’Onofrio “GPS Development and Early Deployment” Steve Martin “GPS & Geodesy Basics along with GPS Standards & Specifica-

tions for Geodetic Control” Marti Ikehara “Using GNSS data & NGS Tools for Geodetic Control”

Held at the Gold Country Casino, Oroville, CA 95966

Hope to see you there!

Seminar Flier and sign-up form is attached to the end of the newsletter.

Northern Counties Chapter, CLSA presents: “Global Positioning System Surveying” Workshop

CLSA East Bay Chapter Meeting: January 9, 2013

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Location: Grand Oaks Restaurant, Oakland, CA MEETING MINUTES (Submitted by Silke Jobst, Secretary)

1. Called to Order: 7:05 PM by Frank Borges, past President 2. Inauguration of President for 2013: Craig Roberts 3. Introductions. There were 23 attendees. 4. November 2012 Meeting Minutes: Approved. 5. December 2012 Chapter Board Meeting Minutes: Approved. 6. Committee/Director Reports Treasurer’s Report (Dave Murtha)

Dave passed out copies of the Chapter’s 2012 Income & Expenses Report as of Dec. 2012. He discussed the highlights as follows: Main income sources: LS Exam Review Class, Raffle tickets, CC County Corner Record Mini-Seminar, Bay Bridge Boat Tour. Main loss sources: meals (mainly Holiday meeting). Dave suggested a change of location for the next Holiday Party (e.g. The

Brass Door in San Ramon). He raised the question of how to enforce or deal with “no shows”. Changing from Credit Union Bank to US Bank. Advantages are convenient locations, free checking and only 2 signatures required

(primary signature Dave Murtha, second signature new Treasurer Julie Eckman). Chapter Board Meeting (Craig Roberts)

Craig reported on the following highlights from the meeting: Fundraising ideas: sponsored vendor picnic, miniature golf, bowling team, walks. Preparation of a written budget and master plan. Utilizing of Evite for sending meeting announcements. It needs to be verified if that would work for some public agencies.

Director’s Report (Steve Martin) CLSA Director’s meeting coming up (February 2, 2013) Craig Roberts sent out list of proposed amendments to the association bylaws and strategic plan and the association is seeking

feedback on those. 7. Old Business

None. 8. New Business Appointed committee members

Craig Roberts presented the appointed committee members: Scholarship: Steve Martin Joint Professional Practices Committee: Gil Hayes Website: Greg St. John and Craig Roberts Newsletter: Greg St. John Bylaws: Craig Roberts and Janine Hampton Membership: Janine Hampton LS Exam Review: John May

There are still committees seeking members: Trigstar Government Liaison CSRC Nominating Education/Workshop

John May suggested a spreading out of the workshop over the whole year since the LS State Exam being offered twice a year. Janine Hampton informed about government liaison and the communication between the chapters. The bylaws committee will be up-dating the bylaws with the comments received from the association. Steve Martin reported on the scholarships. The chapter was going to award one of its annual scholarships to Claudia Barrueta (Fresno State). Due to no fault of her own, a required faculty recommendation letter was not submitted, so her application had to deemed incomplete. This year’s funds will go to the next year’s. Janine Hampton suggested to create a “Claudia Fund” for immediate special

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Special Thanks to Nick King from Engineers Without Bor-ders for Presenting at our January Meeting!

disbursement to her at the Fresno conference. Several members dug in their own wallet to make a donation. Dave Murtha will organize a target scholarship – the checks are going to the chapter and after tallying them the treasurer will write one check to Claudia to be awarded to her by Steve Martin at the Fresno conference.

Trigstar opportunity at Skyline High school’s precalculus class: Math teacher Sage Moore is asking for some real world professional problems. Send them to Craig Roberts (craigroberts@alumni.calpoly.edu).

8. Business Meeting Adjourned: The business meeting was followed by the guest speaker. 9. Guest Speaker

The guest speaker was Nick King, Engineers Without Borders. His presentation was on Engineers Without Borders, how it started in 2002 with nine members and how it developed to an organization that currently boasts more than 12,000 members in about 250 chapters. He talked about the structure of the organization, who its members are and what they do, how it chooses the communities that it partners with and how EWB ensures quality, sustainability, and the fulfillment of its commitments.

11. Raffle Following the speaker, a raffle for several prizes was held. Proceeds from the raffle go to support the Chapter Scholarship Fund.

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CLSA East Bay Chapter Meeting: January 9, 2013

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By Claudia M.Barrueta

T he Annual CSU Fresno 52nd Geomatics Engineering Conference took place at the Clovis Veterans Memorial in Clovis, California during the last weekend of January. The conference was chaired by Corey Pippin and Andreas Torsvik. The topics discussed by the speakers were incredibly diverse. We had about 200 people in attendance and needless to say the conference was a great success.

The conference attendants were treated to a number of speakers such as: Lorraine Amenda, Vincent Ambrosia, Jim Alford, Landon Blake, Dr. James Cross-field, Roger Frank, Gwen Gee, Marti Ikehara, Gary Kent, Annette Lockhart, George Marchento, Larry Otter, Jay Seymour, Chris Waters, and Juan Witrago. The topics covered were GIS, Aerial LiDAR and Photogrammetry, UAV Remote Sensing, California Water Rights, business aspects of Land Surveying, and boundary disputes.

The conference also featured an interesting panel discussion Friday before din-ner. The panel featured Ric Moore, Jay Seymour, Tony Cuomo, Gwen Gee, and Dave Woolley. The panel's discussion was focused around the next generation, technological advances, and continuing education. Overall the

discussion generated quite the response from the audience, which was very entertaining.

Friday night during dinner the CLSA Education Foundation and Caltrans were incredibly generous and gave out a number of scholarships to the students. Afterwards was the famous Bulldog Race with the grand prize being a Schonstedt magnetic locator. The winner was of the magnetic locator was Bea-trice Prieto. There were a number of professionals who donated to participate in the Bulldog Race; the donors were Gary Dixon, Dr. James Crossfield, Paul Enneking, Micheal Jonoes, Mike Hartley, Ronald Nelms, Ken Meme, Roger Frank, Beatrice Prieto, Earl and Gara Cross, Fred Wheeler, and Justin Height.

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The Annual CSU Fresno 52nd Geomatics Engineering Conference

Thanks to the following advertisers for their support!

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Thanks to the following advertisers for their support!

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Is Your Firm Interested in Advertising in the East Bay Chapter CLSA Newsletter?

Advertising Rates:

Quarter Page: $10 per month or $90 per year;

Half Page: $20 per month or $180 per year;

Full Page: $30 per month or $270 per year

Quarter Page: 3 ¼”w x 5”h (portrait) Half Page: 7.5”w x 5”h (landscape)

Full Page: 7.5”w x 10”h (portrait)

Saturday during lunch there was a presentation by Robert Vasquez of David Evan's and Associates, Inc. Mr. Vasquez spoke about the process and the challenges that came with mapping the streets of Los Angeles to make sure the Space Shuttle Endeavor was a success. As you can imagine trans-porting a space shuttle through the cluttered streets of Los Angeles can come with quite the chal-lenge.

Soon after the last presentation the GME Foundation gave out their scholarships to the students. We had a number of generous donors such as PSOMAS, Towill, Bush and Associates, Cross Land Survey-ing, Earl and Gara Cross, John Tosto, Johnson-Frank and Associates, Mark Thomas & Company, and Fred Wheeler along with many others.

Once the scholarships were over professionals stayed behind and socialized some more. The stu-dents wanted to take the time to thank every single professional who came out to support the program. We recognize that times are tough for many so the support from the community means a lot. Thank you once again to all the attendants, speakers, donors, and exhibitors.

Thank you, Claudia for submitting this article!

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SMALL, GROWING SOUTH BAY LAND SURVEYING COMPANY NEEDS EXPERIENCED OFFICE TECHNICIAN/PARTY CHIEF

(ESTIMATED START DATE APRIL 30, 2013)

10+ years experience in the office and as party chief;

Excellent attention to detail on research, field work, and CAD ren-derings;

Must have familiarity with the latest GPS systems and robotics;

Must be able to work independently as well as direct field crew;

Must have solid decision making skills and excellent interpersonal skills;

Desire to help grow the business. Discretionary bonuses based on new clients acquired;

References required. Background Check required. Must be a driver in good standing.

Benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage for employee. Paid vacation days.

Contact Information: Kathy @ 408 615-8855 or kathy@tkmlandsurveyors.com

Job Opportunities

D ear members,

Sage Moore, is a math teacher at Skyline High School. She is interested in our Trigstar program.

This is a great opportunity to get involved and promote land surveying to our future leaders.

We are currently looking for a Trigstar coordinator (chair) who will take on tasks like this one. Details about the Trig-star program, including all the materials you'll need, are on the CLSA website: http://www.californiasurveyors.org/trigstarcoord.html

See you at the next meeting!

Craig Roberts President CLSA East Bay Chapter

Trigstar

Do you have an image for the “Picture of the month”? Please send it in .jpg format to newsletter editor, Greg St. John gstjohn@centralsan.org.

CLSA East Bay Chapter CLSA

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Picture of the Month

Bill Slepnikoff, PLS, new Deputy County Surveyor for Santa Clara County and Chris Wilson, Survey Tech, EIT

(submitted by Gwen Gee)