The deadline for early-bird registration for Rendezvous 2014 is rapidly approaching.
Online registration is available at SurveyorsRendezvous.org
This looks like a very good program.
Two questions
How many CEUs are available?
and who is going from surveyconnect/beerleg?
I am considering attending.
I will be at Perdido Key the prior weekend for an event.
One of these days I will be well off enough that I can go to all these conferences. I hate that I can't go to this one.
> One of these days I will be well off enough that I can go to all these conferences. I hate that I can't go to this one.
Come on, Tommy. First day aboard the USS Alabama with a discussion about the CSS Alabama. I thought that would be going just for that presentation. 😉
Not to mention being based at the Admiral Semmes Hotel.
Yes, It looks like a nice group of presenters which includes Roffie Burt.:good:
I know Mr. Denny has done a lot of research and filed work on the 31st parallel. He even called me to my surprise a few years ago searching for info.
It is going to be hard for me to break for these 3 days particularly the Saturday.
I have been waiting for these folks from the Historical Society to have a Deep South venue for years.
Mobile is a great site.
Making the trip from NC with my son. I think this is my 8th. Some of the greatest people in the country will be attending!!
I'm bummed that it doesn't look like I'm going. I really wanted to go on the mound hunt.
My wife and I had a great time at last year's event and made a longer trip out of it by visiting several other attractions, historical sites, ancestors' graves, and three sets of shirttail relatives.
This year the number of things we would miss around home is large, the H.S. classmate I was hoping to visit will be away from home, and the following week is hectic.
Grump, grump.
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For those interested in the background, I recommend Andro Linklater's book The Fabric of America, which devotes a lot of pages to the political history surrounding Ellicott's survey of the 31st parallel.
Another resource is available for free from Google Books, a biography of Ellicott written by Catherine Van Cortlandt Mathews. You should be able to find that with a search.
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In preparation for the mound hunt, I tried to work up the difference between astronomic latitude and geodetic latitude due to deflection of the vertical. Milton Denny has probably already done this, and I wanted to check my calculations against his data. Looks like I won't be there to do the comparison.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25124076/31parGrav.xls
