Understatement of the century: “Technology has radically changed the surveying business.”

Mixing Google Maps & Flickr: 1216 photos geotagged and counting.

wow– Wild DI 10 Distomat, one of the first infrared EDMs on the market, bought new in 1971 from Wild Heerbrugg and now on display in the Smithsonian. Truly old school!

topo image of PA w/ county lines

Brunton compass

good photo of Zeiss Ni 2 autolevel!

historic instruments from the Physical Sciences Collection

A new tool for displaying the profound, yet often invisible trends affecting global and local communities.

‘The Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and 22 international partners (JOIDES) to conduct basic research into the history of the ocean basins and the overall nature of the crust beneath the ocean floor…’