2026 MSPS Highlighted Speakers

Davey Edwards 

Davey Edwards is a licensed professional land surveyor in Texas and Oklahoma, as well as a Texas licensed state land surveyor and U.S. Federal land surveyor. He is an Assistant Professor in the Geospatial Systems Engineering program at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi and Director of the Texas Spatial Reference Center. A past president of the Texas Society of Professional Surveyors and recipient of multiple industry awards, Davey also serves as vice president of Edwards Surveying, LLC, where he specializes in large boundary surveys and complex land grant issues across Texas and Oklahoma.

Stanley French

Stan served as Chief Cadastral Surveyor for the Idaho State Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from 2004 to 2017, concluding a distinguished 40-year career in public land surveying. Beginning with the BLM in 1977, he specialized in dependent resurveys across the Midwest and Great Lakes states and later served as Project Surveyor in Missouri and Arkansas. He went on to manage the Geographic Coordinate Data Base (GCDB) for the BLM Wyoming State Office and later became Boundary Manager for the Mark Twain National Forest with the U.S. Forest Service in Missouri, where he is a licensed land surveyor. A graduate of the University of Missouri with a B.S. in Forest Management, Stan also completed graduate studies in Advanced Surveying and Boundary Law. Throughout his career, he was an instructor for numerous federal training programs, including CFedS, and frequently presented at national surveying conferences.