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Wendy Lathrop PLS, CFM

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Wendy Lathrop, president and owner of Cadastral Consulting, is licensed as a Professional Land Surveyor in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, and as a Professional Planner in New Jersey. She holds a Master's degree in Environmental Policy, and has been involved in surveying since 1974 in projects ranging from construction to boundary to environmental land use disputes. Wendy is also a Certified Floodplain Manager through theAssociation of State Flood Plain Managers (ASFPM). A former adjunct instructor at Mercer County College in New Jersey, Wendy has also taught as part of the team for the licensing exam review course at Drexel University in Pennsylvania. She has been teaching seminars for surveyors since 1986 and has been writing articles for surveyors since 1983. Wendy is a contributing editor for The American Surveyor magazine, and has four articles included in the American Bar Association's text, Land Surveys: A Guide for Lawyers and Other Professionals. She and Stephen V. Estopinal, PLS, PE recently completed co–authoring a book entitled Professional Surveyors and Real Property Descriptions: Composition, Construction, and Comprehension, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Cadastral Consulting was originally formed in 1984 by Dennis J. Mouland, PLS, for the purpose of providing a high quality source of continuing education for the real estate and land surveying professions. Wendy Lathrop, PLS, CFM first joined the Cadastral Consulting team in 2000, and purchased all rights to the Cadastral Consulting name and operation as of May 1, 2005 when Dennis returned to work with the Bureau of Land Management. The organization has expanded to provide you with more speakers able to address a broader realm of topics for the design, land use, environmental, and legal professions.

Wendy represented the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) on the Technical Mapping Advisory Council to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the five years of that advisory group's appointment. She was recently reappointed to this Council to represent the National Society of Professional Surveyors, the successor to ACSM. She was a panel member of the National Academy of Public Administration's study of US Geographic Information resources and of the National Research Council's study of flood hazard mapping accuracy. Wendy is a past President of the New Jersey Society of Professional Land Surveyors and of the National Society of Professional Surveyors, and has served on the Board of Directors for the American Association for Geodetic Surveying.

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Course Names Faculty Type Price Preview
Applied Ethics Wendy Lathrop Continuing Ed $49
Buyouts: Clearing Development from Floodprone Land Wendy Lathrop Continuing Ed $49
Crawlspaces and Basements: What's the Difference, and Who Cares? Wendy Lathrop Continuing Ed $49
Design and Engineering in Regulated Floodplains: Technical Guidance Wendy Lathrop Continuing Ed $49
Why and How Elevations Matter in Floodplain Management Wendy Lathrop Continuing Ed $49
Floodplain Management: What it is and How it Protects Us Wendy Lathrop Continuing Ed $49
The "I" in "NFIP": The Role of Insurance in Floodplain Management Wendy Lathrop Continuing Ed $49
Letters of Map Change: How to Update Flood Maps Wendy Lathrop Continuing Ed $49
Mapping the Floodplain: Why and How, From Past to Future Wendy Lathrop Continuing Ed $49
The National Flood Insurance Program: Origins and Evolution Wendy Lathrop Continuing Ed $49
Finding Your Way Through the NFIP with FEMA's Technical Guidance Wendy Lathrop Continuing Ed $49
Resiliency: Planning for and Recovery From Flooding Disasters Wendy Lathrop Continuing Ed $49
Sea and Shore: Coastal Areas in the NFIP Wendy Lathrop Continuing Ed $49
Writing: Making Your Pen (or Keyboard) as Mighty as Your Machete Wendy Lathrop Continuing Ed $49