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Mr. Bilik began his career with the old Coast and Geodetic Survey and worked in Alaska, Colorado and Washington state before moving to the D.C. area in the late 1960s.
Alfred J. Bilik; NOAA official Post 2010
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"Anything that's big and difficult to get to, people want to measure," says David Doyle , chief geodetic surveyor for the National Geodetic Survey, the U.S. government agency that maintains the country's mapping data.
Why Measure a Mountain? Because It's There Carl Bialik 2011
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Coast and Geodetic Survey, which dates to 1807 under President Thomas Jefferson.
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Coast and Geodetic Survey officers were commissioned so that under the laws of war, they could not be executed as spies if they were serving as surveyors on a battlefield.
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The NOAA Commissioned Corps, established in 1917 as the Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps, and then as the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA) Corps from 1965-1970, traces its roots back to the former U.S.
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Today the Weather Service is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), where it is united with the other government agencies that were originally dedicated to studying the physical sciences--the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (formed in 1807) and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, which dates to 1871, just one year after the Weather Bureau became a government agency.
Kate Kelly: Of Interest to Government, Commerce, and the Public: The Weather Service Kate Kelly 2010
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Today the Weather Service is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), where it is united with the other government agencies that were originally dedicated to studying the physical sciences--the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (formed in 1807) and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, which dates to 1871, just one year after the Weather Bureau became a government agency.
Kate Kelly: Of Interest to Government, Commerce, and the Public: The Weather Service Kate Kelly 2010
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Today the Weather Service is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), where it is united with the other government agencies that were originally dedicated to studying the physical sciences--the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (formed in 1807) and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, which dates to 1871, just one year after the Weather Bureau became a government agency.
Kate Kelly: Of Interest to Government, Commerce, and the Public: The Weather Service Kate Kelly 2010
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I mean, did you ever run into a website -- or even a concerned citizen -- jumping up and down on say the Weather Bureau or the Army Corps of Engineers or Coast and Geodetic Survey for years on end?
Repugnant Behavior on the Part of One NASA Employee - NASA Watch 2008
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I mean, did you ever run into a website -- or even a concerned citizen -- jumping up and down on say the Weather Bureau or the Army Corps of Engineers or Coast and Geodetic Survey for years on end?
Repugnant Behavior on the Part of One NASA Employee - NASA Watch 2008
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