Corbin Training Center

Calendar of Past Classes

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Date Name of Class Trainer(s) Additional Details
04/16/12 - 04/20/12 Training for NERRS on the NSRS, Static and Real-Time GPS/GNSS and Digital Leveling Various Open only to NERRS employeees
03/13/12 - 03/16/12 Project Management Training for NGS Employees only Graduate School USA Open only to NGS employees
03/13/12- 03/15/12 Geodetic Digital Leveling Class Charlie Geoghegan and Malcolm Archer-Shee Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
02/22/12 - 02/23/12 OPUS-Projects Manager training - Rolla, Missouri Mark Schenewerk Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
02/16/12 Overview of DSWorld (webinar) Malcolm Archer-Shee Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
11/14/11- 11/18/11 Meeting the Requirements of FAA's Advisory Circular 16A (AC-16A) Jeff Olsen and Kevin Jordan Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
12/06/11- 12/07/11 OPUS-Projects Manager Training Dan Martin, Vermont State Geodetic Advisor Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
11/09/11 Real Time Positioning - Best Methods for the Field (webinar) Bill Henning Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
11/08/11- 11/09/11 OPUS-Projects Manager Training - Clark College, Vancouver, WA Mark Armstrong, Oregon State Geodetic Advisor Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
10/25/11- 10/27/11 Geodetic Digital Leveling Class Charlie Geoghegan and Malcolm Archer-Shee Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
09/26/11- 09/30/11 Astronomic Azimuth Class Dave Lehman Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
8/30/2011 - 8/31/2011 OPUS-Projects Manager Training (Corvallis, OR) Mark L. Armstrong, Mark Schenewerk (via video) Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
8/18/2011

LiDAR and Height Modernization

Various speakers Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
08/16/2011 and 08/18/2011 Introduction to Geodetic and Tidal Vertical Datums Dave Minkel, National Geodetic Survey (NGS) and Michael Michalski and Scott Duncan, Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
07/11/2011- 07/12/2011 OPUS-Projects Manager Training Mark Schenewerk Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
05/26/11 Modernization of the National Spatial Reference System (webinar) Dave Doyle Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
05/24/11 - 05/26/11 Geodetic Digital Leveling Charlie Geoghegan and Malcolm Archer-Shee Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
05/10/11 - 05/12/11 River and Valley Crossings Kendall Fancher, Steve Breidenbach and Charlie Geoghegan Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
05/09/11 GRAV-D: Informational update (webinar) Theresa Diehl Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
04/18/11 Modernization of the National Spatial Reference System (webinar) Dave Doyle Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
04/05/11 - 04/07/11 RTK Training for US Fish and Wildlife Biologists Bill Henning, Dennis Lokken, Doug Adams, Dave Doyle, Charlie Geoghegan, Galen Scott, Philippe Hensel US F&WS employees only
3/8/2011 New Coordinates for NGS CORS Nework Sites: http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/CORS/news.shtml Giovanni Sella, Jake Griffiths Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
2/22/11 - 2/24/11 River and Valley Crossing Charlie Geoghegan and Steve Breidenbach Training for North Carolina state employees
2/15/11 - 2/17/11 Digital Geodetic Leveling, including Windesc and Translev (registration full, email for waiting list) Charlie Geoghegan and Malcolm Archer-Shee Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations

12/8/2010

State Plane Coordinates webinar, 1-4pm ET Dave Doyle Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
11/30/10 - 12/3/10 OPUS Projects Training Mark Schenewerk, Gerry Mader NGS employees only
11/16/10 - 11/17/10 Trimble Survey Controller/TGO training Bill Henning, Charlie Geoghegan NGS Norfolk employees only
11/01/10 - 11/05/10 Astronomic Azimuth Class David Lehman Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
10/26/10 - 10/28/10 Digital Geodetic Leveling, including Windesc and Translev Charlie Geoghegan and Malcolm Archer-Shee Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
08/09/10 - 08/12/10 RTK and Digital Leveling Training for NOAA's National Estuarine Research Reserve Staff Steve Breidenbach and Dennis Lokken NERRS personnel only
06/22/10 - 06/24/10 Digital Geodetic Leveling, including Windesc and Translev Charlie Geoghegan and Malcolm Archer-Shee Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
5/13/2010 GPS-Derived Heights Dave Zilkoski, former Director of NGS Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
05/13/10 - 05/14/10 Internal Advisor Training Julie Prusky, Jeff Olsen Open to NGS State Advisors
4/20/10 - 4/22/10

Digital Geodetic Leveling, including Windesc and Translev

Charlie Geoghegan and Malcolm Archer-Shee Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
5/4/2010- 5/6/2010 Digital Geodetic Leveling Charlie Geoghegan and Malcolm Archer-Shee Open to CO-OPS employees
3/30/10 - 4/01/10

Digital Geodetic Leveling, including Windesc and Translev

Charlie Geoghegan, Malcolm Archer-Shee and Ajit Singh Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
3/16/10 - 3/18/10 River and Valley Crossings Steve Breidenbach and Kendall Fancher Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
March 2-3 and 9th Introduction to Tidal and Geodetic Vertical Datums National Geodetic Survey and Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations

2/22/10 - 2/25/10

PAGES and ADJUST

Jeff Olsen Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations

12/9/09

Fundamentals of the National Spatial Reference System (link to presentation)

1:00-5:00pm ET

Dave Doyle Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
November, 2009 Datums and Projections, Demystifying the Reference Frame Dave Doyle NOAA GIS Community
11/10/09 - 11/12/09

Digital Leveling

Charlie Geoghegan Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
10/19/09 - 10/23/09 Astro Azimuth David Lehman Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
10/06/09

Webinar: GPS Derived Heights, Part I

1:00-4:00pm ET

Bill Henning and Dave Doyle Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
10/07/09

Webinar: GPS Derived Heights, Part II

1:00-4:00pm ET

Dave Doyle and Bill Henning Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
07/27/09 - 07/31/09 Designing and Delivering a Training Course Instructor from the National Conservation Training Center NGS employees
07/14/09 - 07/16/09 NGS Orientation (postponed) various NGS employees
06/08/09 - 06/11/09 PAGES and ADJUST Jeff Olsen Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
06/02/09 - 06/04/09 Office 2007 PowerPoint 1pm ET - 4pm ET only Instructor from the USDA Graduate School NGS employees
05/19/09 Introduction to CORS Richard Snay Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
05/20/09 CORS/OPUS for Advanced Users Rick Foote/Giovanni Sella Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
05/21/09 Real-time Kinematic Positioning William Henning Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
4/21/09 - 4/23/09 Geodetic Digital Leveling, including Windesc and Translev Charlie Geoghegan and Malcolm Archer-Shee Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
03/23/09 - 03/27/09 PAGES and ADJUST Jeff Olsen Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
03/02/09 - 03/06/09 PAGES/ADJUST in Lansing, Michigan Jeff Olsen Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
02/23/09 - 02/27/09 PAGES/ADJUST and WinDesc/Translev in Lansing, Michigan Jeff Olsen and Malcolm Archer-Shee Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
1/07/09 - 1/08/09

Introduction to Tidal and Geodetic Vertical Datums and Datum Computations

Dave Doyle, Stephen Gill, Allison Allen, Chenglin Gan, William Sweet, Charles Geoghegan Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations: ftp://ftp.ngs.noaa.gov/pub/corbin/precise-leveling-workshop/
12/3/08 - 12/4/08 Meeting between ACSM, GIAA, NGS and others   ftp://ftp.ngs.noaa.gov/pub/corbin/geomatics-vendor-summit/
11/18/08 - 11/20/08 Digital Leveling Charlie Geoghegan Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations: ftp://ftp.ngs.noaa.gov/pub/corbin/Leveling_class_May_2008/
10/28/2008- 10/29/2008 NGS Orientation various NGS employees
09/15/08 - 09/19/08 PAGES and ADJUST Jeff.Olsen@noaa.gov Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations
06/02/08 - 06/04/08 GPS Collection/CORS/OPUS/RTK Various - Doyle, Snay, Evjen Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations: ftp://ftp.ngs.noaa.gov/pub/corbin/GPS_CORS_RTK_June_2008/
05/13/08 - 05/15/08 Digital Leveling Charlie Geoghegan Open to all federal, state, local and private organizations: ftp://ftp.ngs.noaa.gov/pub/corbin/Leveling_class_May_2008/
04/30/08 - 05/01/08 WinDesc and Translev Malcom Archer-Shee Currently open to NGS employees only, may be opened to others.
04/29/2008 WinDesc and Translev refresher course Malcom Archer-Shee Currently open to NGS employees only, may be opened to others.  This is for those already familiar with these programs but who would like to learn about recent updates.
04/15/08 - 04/17/08 Technical Writing Course USDA Graduate School Instructor For NGS employees
04/8/08 - 04/9/08 NERRS - installing benchmarks and SETS,
leveling and survey techniques
not yet determined National Estuarine Research Reserves staff
02/5/08 - 02/7/08 Leveling Charlie Geoghegan GRW Aerial Surveys, members of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, NGS personnel: ftp://ftp.ngs.noaa.gov/pub/corbin/precise-leveling-workshop/
12/17/07 - 12/18/07 Trimble software and processing Charlie Geoghegan Training for CO-OPS employees
11/14/07 - 11/15/07 FAA meeting N/A NGS and FAA meeting on Airport Survey issues
10/22/07 - 10/26/07 Reigl Training Private Vendor NGS employees from Silver Spring and Norfolk in attendance to be trained on new terrestrial laser scanner system
09/25/07 - 09/27/07 Leveling Charlie Geoghegan Training provided for employees of the VA DOT
09/10/07 - 09/11/07 PAGES and ADJUST training ourse Jeff Olsen Training provided for members of the NC Geodetic Survey and the NC State Advisor
7/11/2007 RTK/GIS Demonstration The demonstration included; hands on use of RTK and digital leveling equipment; a GIS classroom presentation; and a presentation regarding the geodetic activities carried out by the Instrumentation & Methodologies Branch.
6/21/2007 Static GPS data collection and accessing/interpreting results from OPUS Dennis Lokken Training provided to National Weather Service employees
06/12/07 - 06/13/07 FAA meeting Observation & Analysis Division, Aeronautical Survey Program meeting
06/04/07 - 06/08/07 PAGES and ADJUST training course Jeff Olsen Contractors from: GRW Aerial Surveys; Gustin, Cothern & Tucker; GeoMetrics; Stantec; Photoscience, Inc.; and EMC Inc.  Also in attendance were two VDOT Survey Department employees.
05/30/07 - 05/31/07 Geodetic Leveling Training course Curt Smith and Charles Geoghegan Training provided to the South Carolina Geodetic Survey and 13 NGS employees
05/23/07 - 05/25/07 Leica RTK GPS system training Dennis Lokken Training provided to NGS employees
05/02/07 - 05/03/07 NGS Leadership Summit held at the NGS Training Center Approximately 46 NGS Employees were in attendance.
04/10/07 - 04/11/07 Gravity Seminar Dan Winester, Dan Roman, Dru Smith, Representative from MicroG Attended primarily by NGS personnel in order to learn about the history and current status of NGS gravity activities. A representative from MicroG presented information regarding the company's latest Gravimeters.
12/04/06 - 12/06/06 Use of the LazerZone mm GPS system TopCon Instructor Javier Rivera Training provided to NGS employees
11/21/06 - 11/22/06 Use of the Leica GPS 1200 RTK system Bob Lemoine was the Leica instructor Training provided to NGS employees