Thomas W. Brooks Jr., LS, is a Professional Surveyor with HGA, and he is based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He is a Professional Surveyor licensed in Alabama and eighteen other states with over thirty-five years of professional experience. From 1986 until 2008, Thomas ran his own surveying firm, Brooks & Brooks, Inc, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, specializing in Corps of Engineers contracts, cell towers, pipelines, and ALTA surveys. Since then, Thomas has held responsibility for pipeline surveys nationwide and has supervised up to forty-five survey crews, ensuring proper training and quality control. Thomas is a past-president of both the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS - 2001) and the Alabama Society of Professional Land Surveyors (ASPLS - 2013). He served as chair of the Council on Federal Procurement of Architectural and Engineering Services (COFPAES). Currently, Thomas is currently a member of the ALTA/NSPS Standards Committee, the NSPS PAC, and the Scouting Committee. Thomas taught the surveying merit badge at three Boy Scout national jamborees and rewrote an edition of the Survey Merit Badge Book. He has served as an expert witness on boundary disputes and condemnation cases. Thomas has presented various surveying topics, including rights-of-ways and easements, standards, safety, and ethics. In his spare time, Thomas and his wife, Jeanine, enjoy traveling, having visited all fifty states and over 370 national park sites.

Logan Campbell is the Founder and CEO of Aerotas, which provides drone data processing for land surveyors and Civil Engineers. He founded Aerotas in 2014 and has since helped thousands of surveyors get the highest quality data out of their drone programs. Prior to founding Aerotas, Logan worked as a statistician in the financial services industry. Logan has an MBA from Harvard Business School and received his undergraduate degree from USC. Logan is a Certified Mapping Scientist with the ASPRS and a CFA Charterholder. As a recognized industry expert, he regularly speaks at survey and drone conferences and writes in numerous land surveying publications.

Timothy Kinder is an accomplished Surveyor with more than 30 years of surveying experience. His expertise spans a wide range of surveying disciplines, including GPS control, boundary, topographic and utility surveys, transportation surveys, civil and heavy highway construction staking, building layout, Mobile LiDAR and 3D scanning data collection, analysis, and processing. He excels in point cloud registration, 3D mesh creation and modeling, as well as subdivision and land development planning.
Currently, as a Design Survey Manager, Timothy coordinates with third-party survey vendors for all design-level survey control and base mapping needed for construction projects ranging from $50M to $4B. His projects are all over the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the US Virgin Islands.

Lloyd Kirk, PS - CFS, is the Survey Practice Leader for Triad Engineering's Southwestern Regional Office in Scott Depot, WV. Originally licensed to survey in North Carolina, Lloyd returned to West Virginia, after 24 years of surveying across several southern states, and was licensed to practice in West Virginia in 2012. As an early participant in the Certified Floodplain Surveyor Program (NC CFS #139), Lloyd intends to explore the possibility of establishing the NSPS CFS Program through our Society and in coordination with the National Society of Professional Surveyors. Considering the typically annual seasonal flooding that occurs in West Virginia, the skills and abilities gained from the CFS training for certification provide a greater understanding of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), a more streamlined application process for Letters of Map Amendment (LOMA) and Letters of Map Revision due to Fill (LOMR-F), and expands the expertise of the Professional Surveyor who can offer a focused and valuable service to our communities, and helps to further our foremost responsibility to protect the public health, safety, and welfare.

Kristopher M. Kline, president of 2Point, Inc., has a four-year degree (class of '84) in General Science from Bridgewater College located in Bridgewater, VA. He has been involved in the surveying profession since graduation.

Kris became licensed in North Carolina in 1991 (PLS L - 3374). He is a 1999 graduate of the North Carolina Society of Surveyors (NCSS) Institute, a three-year continuing education program that for many years drew national attention for the quality of its curriculum and instructors. Kris served for 3 years as Chairman of the NCSS Education Committee.

In 2001, Kris began offering continuing education courses in North Carolina on legal aspects of retracement. More recently, his teaching career has expanded to include conferences and seminars nationwide. Course offerings now include a broad range of topics, including adverse possession & other unwritten rights, riparian law, mineral rights and courtroom preparation. Customized courses tailored to the jurisdiction in which they are presented enhance their value to the professional. Kris has presented several keynote addresses for state conventions.

In 2011, he established “Unmistakable Marks,” a new column published in “Point of Beginning,” a trade magazine for surveying professionals. Kris presently submits bi-monthly articles for the magazine, with over 30 articles published to date. These articles are written for a national audience and generally focus on various legal aspects of boundary retracement.

In August 2013, Kris published his first book, “Rooted in Stone: The Development of Adverse Possession in 20 Eastern States and the District of Columbia.” This text considers adverse possession and prescriptive easements from their early origins to the present day. Separate chapters are dedicated to variations between jurisdictions in the eastern United States.

His second book, “Riparian Boundaries and Rights of Navigation,” includes extensive discussion of the many definitions of the term “navigable.” This short volume was completed in 2015 and focuses on property rights along smaller rivers, streams, lakes, and estuaries. It considers the inevitable confusion that results when modern definitions are applied to early grants and the effects of subsequent legislation on riparian rights.

Kline’s third book was released in 2016. “How to Fix a Boundary Line” chronicles variations in the legal mechanisms related to unwritten property rights across the United States. Topics include acquiescence, part performance of oral contracts, adverse possession, estoppel, and the doctrine of merger.

Earnest "Mack" McCarty is the former president and current vice president of the WVSPS. In 2022, McCarty was selected as the WVSPS Surveyor of the Year.

Dr. Peterson is a Support Representative for Leica Geosystems. He has over 36 years of experience as a professional surveyor, engineer, constructor, mapper, educator, and researcher with his FAA Remote Pilot Certificate. He completed his Civil Engineering PhD in 2015 where he focused on surveying and mapping. His career took him across North America, Europe, and Australia promoting mobile mapping and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). He was an Assistant Professor at several universities where he taught surveying and construction. He was also the program coordinator of a UAS degree. His professional career includes Consolidation Coal Company, McCarthy Bridge & Heavy, the Center of Expertise for Photogrammetric Mapping at the US Army Corps of Engineers. He has been a Vice-President of aerial mapping companies such as Sanborn & Surdex. He also managed and owned several engineering, surveying, construction companies, and was a Domain Expert for Trimble Navigation and Gatewing. He was part of a $20 million dollar research project through the National Science Foundation using UAS to collect high accuracy imagery to model the effects of climate on plants. He also had a research project with the Natural Resources Conservation Service where he investigated using UAS for wetland compliance. Prior to coming to Leica, he was a project engineer for the City of Springfield, Missouri where he managed infrastructure projects. He is passionate about all things geospatial, teaching, and his research.

Jonathan Scott, PE, PS is a licensed Professional Engineer and Professional Surveyor with broad experience in land development, transportation design, and boundary surveying. Having recently passed the NCEES Principles and Practice of Surveying (PS) exam, he offers a practical, first-hand perspective on preparing for it. His course focuses on the essential equations and reference materials provided in the official NCEES equation book, emphasizing how to quickly locate, interpret, and apply them during the exam. With a strong background in both engineering and surveying, Jonathan bridges the gap between conceptual understanding and problem-solving efficiency—helping participants strengthen their quantitative skills and build confidence through real-world examples and clear explanations. His session provides a concise yet comprehensive review of the most relevant math principles surveyors need to succeed on exam day and in professional practice.

Kaden Statler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at Fairmont State University, where he teaches in the Surveying and Geomatics Engineering Technology program. He holds a Master of Education in Professional Studies and dual Bachelor’s degrees in Surveying and Geomatics Engineering Technology and History, all from Fairmont State.

With a passion for history, Kaden focuses on the heritage of the surveying profession, including historical boundary research and the recovery of early survey monuments like those from the Mason-Dixon Line. His work brings historical context into the classroom, helping students connect modern practices with the profession’s deep roots.

He is actively involved with the Mason-Dixon Historical Park, where he contributes to research, education, and preservation efforts tied to the historic boundary line and its regional legacy. He also maintains membership in the Surveyors Historical Society and other regional organizations that support the preservation of the surveying profession’s legacy.

Kaden has been an active member of the West Virginia Society of Professional Surveyors since 2019. He was named the WVSPS Future Surveyor in 2023 and the Surveying Technician of the Year in 2025. He also passed the Fundamentals of Surveying exam in May of 2025 and is currently gaining experience as a surveying crew chief at Triad Engineering, Inc.

Don Teter graduated from Davis and Elkins College with a B.A. in History and Political Science and has been a West Virginia licensed surveyor since 1982. He is a past-President of the West Virginia Society of Professional Surveyors, was Editor of The West Virginia Surveyor for ten years, and served on the Board of Directors of the national Surveyors Historical Society.

For over 30 years Mr. Teter was self-employed surveying mostly rural properties, with a scattering of city and suburban work, and occasional topographic and minor construction surveying.

Don has participated in several exam-writing and review workshops for the West Virginia state exam, and is a part-time complaint-reviewer and investigator for the West Virginia licensing board.

He has been presenting continuing education seminars for surveyors for over twenty years in numerous states. Since 2018 Don has been Assistant Professor of Surveying at Fairmont State University, and he actively participated in the successful effort to obtain ABET accreditation for their BS in Surveying and Geomatics Engineering Technology.

Mr. Jared D. Wilson is a Professor of Practice of Land Surveying in the Surveying and Mapping Science (SAMS) Coordinator at East Tennessee State University. He earned his M.S. in Engineering Technology from East Tennessee State University in May 2002 and a Bachelor of Science degree in surveying and mapping from East Tennessee State University in 2001. He is actively pursuing a Doctorate of Engineering at the University of Maine.

Mr. Wilson is a licensed land surveyor in West Virginia and Tennessee, and has performed land surveying related projects in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland, and Washington D.C. He has served on the West Virginia Society of Professional Land Surveyors in the capacity of Chapter Representative, Director, President Elect, and President. His goal is to continue to instruct future land surveyors and benefit the profession.

Mr. Wilson's research interests focus on the role of coordinates and error estimates in land boundary determination and land survey preplanning. He is rather interested in the integration of historic measures, along with respective error estimates, and how those can influence land boundary evidence collection and determination.