Insights & News

September 22, 2020

Firm will provide geophysical surveying services across multiple states.

August 26, 2020

When I was with the Southwest Florida Water Management District, people often asked me, “What do you study at the district?” When I would respond with, “I study the water cycle,” they would chuckle and remind me that they learned about the water cycle in sixth grade earth science class, and reply…

August 26, 2020

Each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) publishes a report on job growth. According to the November 2019 report, nonfarm employment rose by 266,000 nationwide, and in October 2019, the unemployment rate in the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley area of Alabama was at just 2.2%, compared to a nationwide…

August 26, 2020

Seagrass is an integral part of our oceans and not only provides shelter and food to an incredibly diverse community of marine life, but also improves water quality, reduces erosion, and buffers coastlines against storms.

August 26, 2020

Have you ever wondered about the person or technology responsible for gathering weather data? Does that person sleep, or does the technology turn off or restart? Okay, so maybe you haven’t really ever wondered these things, I hadn’t. But when I started working on a telecommunications project for…

August 26, 2020

Following the devastation of Superstorm Sandy in the northeast in 2012, funding for disaster resilience became available through the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act of 2013. A portion of that funding went through the Department of Interior's National Park Service to further the protection of…

August 26, 2020

The Brighton Dam was built in 1944 along the Patuxent River between Montgomery and Howard counties, Maryland. The 1,000-foot dam created the Triadelphia Reservoir, which holds around 6.3 billion gallons of source drinking water for Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) customers in…

August 26, 2020

The car-buying experience hasn't changed much in the last few decades. Typically, a buyer could spend a day driving from dealership to dealership looking for a new vehicle. This seems normal, but what about factoring in rain, or the time spent covering that much ground? These are inconveniences…

August 26, 2020

Three years out of my college degree, on my second major data collection project as a geospatial analyst with Dewberry, I found myself in the back of a twin-engine Piper Navajo, wearing a full flight suit and headgear, operating two different lidar sensors aimed at the wetlands below. The Florida…

August 26, 2020

"I fell into GIS in 1990 after working for a number of years doing manual cartography. When I started my career, FEMA flood maps were made using engraving, type stickup, and color separation. I was an art major in college and had focused on printmaking, so I knew about engraving and color…

August 26, 2020

Have you ever wondered how federal agencies and private non-profits accurately anticipate the amount of assistance and goods required to help communities affected by natural disasters? How do they determine the amount of food and water necessary to sustain those affected, or how many shelters are…

August 26, 2020

Our relationship with East Donegal Township's Water Authority spans nearly 70 years, and as technologies have evolved, so have our services. Project Manager Tom Ladue from our Carlisle, Pennsylvania, office, has been East Donegal's point person since 1972 and is a perfect example of the type of…