At the boundary between the land and the sea

JOA Surveys, LLC (JOA), is an Alaska based surveying company specializing in tides and water level measurement, vertical datums and geodetic networks.

Since 2003, we have supported shoreline mapping, hydrographic surveys, bathymetric lidar surveys, and special datum determination projects in the Gulf of Maine, Massachusetts, Chesapeake Bay, the Gulf of Mexico, California, Oregon, the Inside Passage of Alaska, the Gulf of Alaska, the Aleutian Islands, Bristol Bay, Norton Sound, the Chukchi Sea and the Beaufort Sea.

JOA, LLC is a partnership of John Oswald, Erik Oppegard, Nathan Wardwell, Cody Mayfield and Mike Zieserl. We are always looking for interesting and challenging projects along the coast of Alaska and beyond.

NEWS

NOAA/COOPS Task 17

Ongoing 2008-2010The first year of underwater tide observations in Barrow were a success, and observations will continue through summer 2010.

NOAA/NGS Shoreline Mapping

Ongoing 2008-2010 JOA is currently supporting two NGS shoreline mapping contracts in Virginia (James and Potomac Rivers).

NOAA/OCS Hydro Surveys

Summer 2010 In 2010, JOA will be supporting 4 NOAA contracted hydrographic surveys in Chesapeake Bay, the Gulf of Mexico and the Aleutian Islands and the Kuskokwim River.

NOAA/COOPS NWLONS

Summer 2010 JOA will begin our 6th year of providing maintenance and upgrades for the NOAA National Water Level Observation Network in Alaska. JOA will perform maintenance for 10 of the more remote NWLON stations in Alaska in 2010.

GSA Schedule

Ongoing 2010 The JOA small business contract with GSA has been continued (GS-10F-0225S) on the GSA schedule for Category 899-7.