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Article: NOAA NAMES FIRST WOMAN TO DIRECT NATIONAL GEODETIC ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 5, 2009 ;     696 words ... ... director of NOAA's Office of National Geodetic Survey where she will oversee NOAA's responsibilities ... including 16 years with the National Geodetic Survey," said John H. Dunnigan, assistant ... three years as chief of the National Geodetic Survey's Observation and Analysis Division ...

Article: Coast and Geodetic Survey
Dictionary of American History;      700+ words ...COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY. The Coast and Geodetic Survey was born in 1807 when Congress, on the initiative of President Thomas Jefferson, passed a law authorizing "a survey to be taken of the coasts of the United States ...

Article: The Coast and Geodetic Survey
American Eras;      700+ words ...The Coast and Geodetic Survey Source Measuring the United States ... Survey until 1880, the Coast and Geodetic Survey was primarily involved in geodesy ... worldwide reputation of the Coast and Geodetic Survey for gravity studies came to an ...

Article: ZILKOSKI NAMED NATIONAL GEODETIC SURVEY DIRECTOR
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 2, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... director of NOAA's Office of National Geodetic Survey where he will be responsible for overseeing ... in 1974 as a member of the National Geodetic Survey's Horizontal Network Branch. Serving ... years as head of NOAA's Office of Geodetic Survey Challstrom is delighted with Zilkoski ...

Encyclopedia entry: Coast and Geodetic Survey, U.S.
The Oxford Companion to United States History;      700+ words ...Coast and Geodetic Survey, U.S. The U.S. Coast Survey ... official title became the Coast and Geodetic Survey. In 1970, after the establishment ... NOAA was retitled the Coast and Geodetic Survey. Finally, a 1994 reorganization ...

Article: National readjustment of NAD83. The National Geodetic ...
Point of Beginning;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... creation of what is now the National Geodetic Survey." For the historians among us ... in 1836 and then as the Coast and Geodetic Survey (C & GS) in 1878. In 1970 ... geodetic office was renamed the National Geodetic Survey. The Need for Readjustment NAD83 ...

Article: Geodetic Survey Puts One Foot Behind Another; ...
The Washington Post;  July 22, 1988 ;     641 words ... ... little longer than the other. But according to a National Geodetic Survey announcement in the Federal Register: not to worry. The ... until the agency put out new mapping standards, called a geodetic survey network or a datum. This is a system of map coordinates ...