Surveyors Provide View of Solar Eclipse Morrison-Maierle’s land surveyors treated their fellow employees to an old-fashioned, land-surveyor style show of the solar eclipse. Gunnar Getchell and his crew pulled an old survey instrument (theodolite) off the shelves that they used before GPS and more modern instruments were available. Surveyors used to attach a filter to the eyepiece and take “sun shots” or “solar observations” to get accurate direction (or bearing), which were highly accurate. “If we didn’t have a filter we’d use the field book or a white piece of paper as a backdrop and record the exact time that the left, (trailing) edge ofRead More →

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Rusty Blough

Rusty Blough new Survey Market Group Office Leader Morrison-Maierle of Cody, Wyoming, is pleased to announce the recent promotion of Rusty Blough as the office’s Survey Market Group Office Leader. Rusty began his career as a student at the Oregon Institute of Technology where he earned a B.S. in Land Surveying in 1999. As a professional land surveyor, he served as the director of the Northwest Chapter of the Professional Land Surveyors of Wyoming from 2011-2013 and was the Northwest Chapter president in 2010. His areas of specialization are boundary surveying, oil and gas surveys, and powerline rights of way. Morrison-Maierle’s Cody office has manyRead More →

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