- Feature: To The Next Level
A college in Southern California has prospered by employing several disparate measures. These can inspire others, and they also shed light on the status of surveying education.
- Feature: Super Surveying Bowl
Crews surveying to build Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis used everything from robotic total stations to steel tapes to overcome a host of challenges.
- Feature: In A Slump
Underwater surveys of Lake Champlain make ideal training for Middlebury College students and have yielded first observations of a unique geological formation.
- Editor's Desk: Opportunites Abound for Students by Tom Gibson
- Feature: Winning Team
Surveying the course in advance with GPS helped a University of Michigan team win the North American Solar Challenge cross-country car race.
- Guest Editorial: When Do We Stop Teaching the Old Methods?
- History Corner: Historical Look at the Surveying Merit Badge, Part 2: 1960-present
- Software Review: Carlson's Simplicity 'Sight' Survey 2009 by James White
- Education in Surveying: Overview of College and University Geomatics Education by Robert J. Schultz
- Book Review: "Introductory Surveying" by James R. and Roy H. Wirshing by Wilhelm A. Schmidt
- Intersect: Focus for 2009: Surprises, Skills, or Survival by Janet Jackson and Randy Rambeau, Sr.
2 Professionals; 2 Opinions; 2 Points of View
- Rules of the Game: Griffin's Rule No. 2 by Donald A. Wilson
Proceeding from the known to the unknown
- Stories from the "E" File: The Smallest of Heroes by Tom LaCorte
- Business Angle: Downsizing Survival Kit by Jeff Salmon
Planning for the unexpected can mean the difference between a hard and soft landing.
- Surveying the Capitol: Saving the USGS EDMAP Program by Laurence Socci
- Cartoon: Out-of-Plumb by Chase Perryman
- Letters to the Editor