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Join RISPLS In Celebrating 24 National Surveyors Week!

2024 National Surveyors Week
2024 National Surveyors Week

The Rhode Island Society of Professional Land Surveyors (RISPLS) celebrates the 2024 National Surveyors Week. This year, National Surveyors Week is being held March 17-23.

National Surveyors Week is an annual week long tribute to the important contributions land surveyors make to society and public benefit by their professional dedication helping private citizens and their communities with boundary determinations, infrastructure improvements, placing roads, bridges and public buildings, and other contributions aligned to their roles including land surveying, mapping, and land information systems.

Land surveyors combine science, technology and historical data to determine where things are located on the face of the earth (and above and below, too). These data are then used by many stakeholders for everything from understanding where their property lines are located, how natural and manmade features relate to those boundaries, or each other, and for design, construction, transportation and mapping.

As you move around your community this week, look around at the properties, buildings, roads, and utilities , and in all of those you’ll find that land surveying and surveyors played a critical and important role in how those items where created.

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The Rhode Island Society of Professional Land Surveyors Awards 2023 Surveyor of the Year to Marc Thayer, PLS

The Rhode Island Society of Professional Land Surveyors enthusiastically awards the 2023Surveyor of the Year to Marc Thayer, PLS!

The Surveyor of the Year Award is given in recognition of someone who has made a superior contribution and/or performed sustained service to the Rhode Island Society of Professional Land Surveyors.

Mr. Thayer has proven himself by diligently researching the legislative issue of “Right of Entry” for Professional Land Surveyors in the State of Rhode Island and by advising RISPLS Board of Directors on these matters.

He remains a stalwart protector of the profession as demonstrated by his service to RISPLS and his contributions to the organization. Mr. Thayer’s actions truly embodies the nature of why a Professional Society exist in order to safeguard life, health, and property and to promote the public welfare.

The Surveyor of the Year for 2023 is awarded to Mr. Marc Thayer for his many years of unrecognized and unheralded service to RISPLS and for his continuing support and active participation. This past year he has added immensely toward the advancement of the surveying profession.

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The Rhode Island Society of Professional Land Surveyors Announces the 2023 Clerk of the Year

The Rhode Island Society of Professional Land Surveyors is pleased to award the 2023 Clerk of the Year award to Middletown, RI Town Clerk, Wendy Marshall!

2023 Clerk of the Year

Town Clerk’s Office
Middletown, RI


Wendy Marshall, Clerk

The Clerk of the Year Award is given as an expression of gratitude to the Clerk who has made an extraordinary and often behind-the-scenes contributions to the Rhode Island Society of Professional Land Surveyors.

This Clerk of the Year Award is given to the Middletown, RI Clerk’s Office. The records at the Clerk’s office contain the most important information that we use to determine property lines. Access to these records is critical. Wendy Marshall and her clerks make our jobs a lot easier.

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The Rhode Island Society of Professional Surveyors 2023 Presidential Citation

2023 PRESIDENTIAL CITATION

The Presidential Citation Award is given by the president of the association as an expression of gratitude to those who have made extraordinary and often behind – the scenes contributions to the Rhode Island Society of Professional Land Surveyors.

Grace Carvalho

This Presidential Citation Award is given to Grace Carvahlo in appreciation of your efforts in the preservation and maintenance of the Land Evidence Records of the Town of Middletown, RI.

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RISPLS Webinar: Promoting Public Access Along The Shore – Without Violating The Law

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The Rhode Island Society of Professional Land Surveyors (RISPLS) is pleased to announce our upcoming webinar “Promoting Public Access Along The Shore – Without Violating The Law” presented by Dennis Nixon, Professor Emeritus of Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island.

When: Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 6pm – 8pm
Where: Virtual/On Line
Guest Speaker: Dennis Nixon, Professor Emeritus of Marine Affairs, University of Rhode IslandTopic: ” PROMOTING PUBLIC ACCESS ALONG THE SHORE – WITHOUT VIOLATING THE LAW”

1.5 PDH Certificate & GMM Attendance Certificate will be issued after completed webinar.

About Our Esteemed Speaker, Dennis Nixon:

Dennis Nixon is a Professor Emeritus of Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island, where he taught marine coastal law over a span of 45 years. He currently divides his time between Jamestown and St. Thomas USVI where he serves as a volunteer land steward for the Nature Conservancy.

He is the author of the textbook Marine and Coastal Law (Third Edition 2021) and has been a member of the RI Bar Association since 1975. He holds degrees in history, law,  marine affairs, and has lectured in 35 countries on six continents.

Professor Nixon’s first professional article, in 1976 was entitled “Public Access to the Shore: the Rhode Island Example.” During the 1986 RI Constitutional Convention he was retained to help draft the revisions to Art. 1, Sec. 17 of the RI Constitution dealing with “the privileges of the shore.” He is a strong supporter of the current effort to decriminalize passage along the shore.

Please fill out and return your registration form with payment to RISPLS. A registration webinar link before the meeting to those who have registered via mailing in or emailing registration.  GMM Apr INVITE