Chris came to CIVIL CONSULTANTS in 1984 after
graduating from the Surveying Engineering program at the University of Maine,
with highest honors, where he concentrated on courses in Geodesy and Analytic
Photogrammetry. As part of the program, Chris completed a thesis on the design
and testing of a very close-range, non-metric camera, photogrammetric mapping
system.
Chris’ prior experience includes work
for the U.S. Forest Service Division of Cadastral Surveys, Bureau of Land
Management, in Anchorage, Alaska; Lolo Engineering Group, Plains, Montana; and
Schofield Brothers, Surveyors and Engineers, Framingham, Massachusetts. While in
Alaska he completed numerous homestead and native claims, allotment property line
surveys, and a number of control surveys. In addition, Chris served as a camp
chief in charge of three 3-man survey crews and supporting personnel. Precise
surveying work was performed in very rugged and remote areas under adverse
environmental conditions. At the end of his first field season in Alaska, Chris
and his camp received outstanding employee awards for completing the greatest
number of surveys in the state that season.
Chris’ experience as a forest engineering
technician includes work surveying and designing forest haul roads and
associated structures.
Most recently, Chris has been responsible for
a variety of engineering, boundary, and topographic surveys, including primary
responsibility for contracts with the National Park Service, the United States
Fish and Wildlife Service, and the United States Forest Service.
He has conducted research on and has working experience with trigonometric
leveling, astronomic positioning and photogrammetric volume measurements,
deformation measurements, hyrdographic surveys, and Global Positioning System
(GPS) surveying. He has written many programs for survey-related calculations.
He has taught surveying courses for the Division of Continuing Education at the
University of New Hampshire, and prepared a chapter on distance measurement for
American Congress on Survey and Mapping (ACSM) surveyor-in-training review
manual. He also completed a 40-hour OSHA hazardous waste site worker protection
training program.
Chris is responsible for technical review,
software testing, and technical standards within the surveying group, as well as
the design of control surveys. With his extensive training and research he is
also responsible for CIVIL CONSULTANTS' GPS equipment and surveys. Chris also
co-authored a paper on least squares traverse adjustment which was presented to
American Congress on Survey and Mapping (ACSM) members at a national convention.
Chris has worked in most of the repositories for land records throughout Maine
and New Hampshire, and has appeared in court as an expert witness regarding land
disputes.
During the past 10 years, Chris has pursued work
with land resource conservation groups as well as work relating to municipal
boundary retracement. Engineering surveys of high precision and advances in
instrumentation are other areas of interest to Chris.
Professional Data
University of Maine
B.S., Surveying Engineering, 1984
University of New Hampshire
B.S., Forest Management, 1980
Numerous continuing education courses and self study
in the topic areas of adjustments,GPS, astronomic positioning,deformation measurements,
instrumentation and
survey law.