Hotel

ASPLS has reserved special rates of $155 per night (single or double). Discounted self-parking of $15.00 per day. Please note that room rates are subject to state and local taxes and fees. Guests can also make reservations online. Visit

https://www.hyatt.com/events/en-US/group-booking/BHMHR/G-ASP3

Registration 

Full registration: Available to members and non-members. Discounted early registration will be available soon.

Individual session registration: Best for those that only want to attend THREE OR FEWER sessions.  Discounted early registration is coming soon.

Exhibitor Registration: A limited number of table top exhibits are available to companies to display products and services for land surveyors and engineers. Exhibit registration is coming soon.

Schedule of Events

Monday, October 26, 2026

10:00 AM Golf Tournament Benefitting Student Scholarships

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Exhibitors Set Up

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM: ASPLS Board Meeting

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM: Social Time

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

7:00 AM: Registration and Breakfast with Exhibitors

7:00 AM – 7:50 AM [1 PDH] – Mississippi Standards, Updated 2026 (1 PDH) - presented by Thomas Brooks

8:00 AM – 11:30 AM Session 1A [3.5 PDH] – Parish Boundary Dispute part 1 presented by Frank Willis

8:00 AM – 11:30 AM Session 1B [3.5 PDH] – Plat of Survey (title TBD), presented by Milton Denny, Matt Beam

11:30 AM - Box Lunch provided

11:45 PM – 1:15 PM Session 2  [1 PDH] – Surveying in Alabama and ASPLS Membership Meeting, presented by Mark Clark

1:30 PM – 5:00 PM Session 3A [3.5 PDH] – Parish Boundary Dispute part 2 and Artificial Intelligence presented by Frank Willis

1:30 PM – 5:00 PM Session 3B [3.5 PDH] – Best Practices in Drone Surveying-presented by Logan Campbell

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM Corn Hole or other social event to be determined. Spouses welcome!

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

7:00 AM: Registration and Breakfast with Exhibitors

8:00 AM – 11:30 AM Session 5A [3.5 PDH] – Catahoula Lake presented by Frank Willis

8:00 AM – 11:30 AM Session 5B [3.5 PDH] – Four Corners - presented by Tommy Brooks

8:00 AM – 11:30 AM Session 5C [3.5 PDH] – CST Training, presented by Jason Bailey

11:30 AM Raffle with Exhibitors

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Lunch on your own; Exhibitors Tear Down

1:00 PM – 4:45 PM Session 6A [4.0 PDH] – Standards of Practice, presented by Jason Bailey and Milton Denny

1:00 PM – 4:45 PM Session 6B [4.0 PDH] – Cedar Creek v State of Alabama, Sepulga River presented by Frank Willis

1:00 PM – 4:30 PM Optional CST Test

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM Possible social activity to be determined. Spouses Welcome!

Total 16.5 PDHs

Session Descriptions

Session descriptions coming soon.

Speaker Bios

Jason Bailey is President/Principal Surveyor at Bailey Land Group. He has more than 35 years of experience in both military and civilian land surveying. He has performed land surveys all over the world to include a hydrographic survey of the Persian Gulf, a resurvey of Kadena Airfield in Okanawa, Japan, and numerous ALTA/ACSM Land Title, Boundary/Topographic, and Communication Tower Surveys in Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Tennessee. Mr. Bailey has experience in GPS positioning, flood certifications, construction layout, subdivision platting, mortgage, route, and utility surveys, ROW and easement dedications, and GIS data collection. He currently is responsible for the overall operation of his business that includes all aspects of the surveying process from the initial proposal to the coordination of the field work, processing field data, managing the CADD process, calculating the boundaries, performing the research and delivering the final product.  He is currently the Secretary/Treasurer for ASPLS as well as past president for the society. He serves on several committees within ASPLS including being the chairman of the Professional Practices committee, the GIS committee, the Trig-Star committee and is a member of the Resolutions and By-Laws committee, the Nominating committee and the Ethics committee.

Thomas Brooks is a Professional Surveyor with HGA based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He is licensed in Alabama and eighteen other states with over thirty-five years of professional experience. From 1986 until 2008 Thomas ran his own surveying firm, Brooks & Brooks, Inc., in Tuscaloosa Alabama, specializing in Corps of Engineers contracts, cell towers, pipelines, and ALTA surveys. Since then, Thomas has held responsibilities for pipeline surveys nationwide and has supervised up to forty-five survey crews, ensuring proper training and quality control. Thomas is a past-president of both the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS- 2001) and the Alabama Society of Professional Land Surveyors (ASPLS - 2013). He served as chair of the Council on Federal Procurement of Architectural and Engineering Services (COFPAES). Currently, Thomas is a member of the ALTA/NSPS Standards Committee, the NSPS PAC, and the Scouting Committee. Thomas taught surveying merit badge at three Boy Scout national jamborees and rewrote an edition of the Survey Merit Badge Book. He has served as an expert witness on boundary disputes and condemnation cases. Thomas has presented on various surveying topics, including rights-of-ways and easements, standards, safety and ethics. In his spare time, Thomas and his wife, Jeanine, enjoy traveling having visited all fifty states and over 350 national parks.

Milton E. Denny is a registered surveyor in six states, and a veteran of land surveying, aerial mapping and GIS. His special interest has always been in project development and management of firms. He is a past president of the Alabama Society of Professional Land Surveyors, a Fellow in the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping and served for many years on the Board of Direction. Mr. Denny is the author of many manuals dealing with surveying, mapping and GIS. He is a nationally known speaker and lecturer on these subjects and wrote a column called “The Business Side” for a trade magazine for many years. He was instrumental in the starting of a new member organization in the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping called the “Geographic and Land Information Society”.

Additional Speaker Bios coming soon.