The Alexander Dalrymple Award is given by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) in recognition of an outstanding contribution to world hydrography. First presented in 2006,...

The Hydro17 Organising Committee is pleased to present the preliminary programme for the Hydro17 Conference to be held in Rotterdam from 14 to 16 November 2017. With almost 50 pape...

Hydrography is important to visualise the water floor. This can be done in various ways, from using a sounding stick to a remotely controlled singlebeam echosounder or a survey ves...

On 29 November 2005, the United Nations designated 21 June as World Hydrography Day. This year, World Hydrography Day also marked the 96th anniversary of the establi...

During TUS Expo, the international conference and trade show focussing on Unmanned Systems, that took place in the World Forum in The Hague on 19-21 April 2017, the Hydrographic So...

At the 5th Extraordinary International Hydrographic Conference, held in Monaco in October 2014, the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) agreed on the need to explore sour...

The Hydrographic Society Benelux regularly meets up with the CEDA. They also met up on 31 January 2017 at the inspiring headquarters of Boskalis in Papendrecht, the Netherlands. On...

In 2016, the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) continued to pursue its wide and varied programme.  Here are some highlights for 2016. S-100 The extension and use o...

On behalf of the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies, the Hydrographic Society Benelux (HSB) invites professionals to submit a conference paper for the Hydro17 confe...

The International Federation of Hydrographic Societies has asked the Hydrographic Society Benelux (HSB) to organise next year’s Hydro Conference Hydro17 from 14-16 November 2...

A workshop themed ‘Hydrograaf’ was held on board the SS <i>Hydrograaf<i> in Rotterdam on 23 September 2016. The afternoon opened with a sightseeing tour of...

The Permanent Committee on Tides & Mean Sea Level (PCTMSL) Bureau in Australia has sponsored a tides workshop aimed at raising the level of tidal knowledge of those people invo...

The second year of the TUSExpo (The Unmanned Systems Expo) inaugurated a cooperation of the event organisers with the Hydrographic Society Benelux, hosting a dedicated workshop on...

The Fugro Australasian Hydrographic Symposium 2015 & Trade Exhibition was held in early November 2015 in Cairns, Australia. The Symposium had 117 attendees, mostly from Austral...

The main driver for the establishment in 1921 of the precursor of what is today the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) was to standardise the presentation of information...

GNSS PPP-RTK Workshop Hosted by the Offshore and Energy Exhibition at the Amsterdam RAI Conference Centre, the Hydrographic Society Benelux presented the GNSS PPP-RTK workshop in t...

New Zealand Region - World Hydrography Day Event – Annual Seminar It’s getting bigger each year! The New Zealand Region ran its annual Seminar and AGM to celebrate Worl...

Capacity Building (CB) is one of the strategic objectives of the IHO. It aims to assist countries, especially IHO Member States, in better meeting their international obligations i...

Workshops for 2nd Half of 2015 The Hydrographic Society Benelux (HSB)  1 is organising a workshop on 11 September 2015 with the theme Underwater Positioning. The eve...

World Hydrography Day Event – South Australia Each year the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) celebrates World Hydrography Day (WHD), an opportunity to increase p...

The AHS will be hosting the Australasian Hydrographic Symposium 2015 in warm, sunny Cairns from 3 to 7 November 2015. Cairns is the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef and is a beaut...

On 26 June 2015, the Hydrographic Society Benelux organised a workshop in “Het Keringhuis”, situated next to the Maaslantkering (storm surge barrier) in Hoek van Holla...

Quebec BranchThe Quebec Branch has published the 2015 edition of its ‘Carnet de Bord’, which provides information on marinas and many items on boating safety. They cont...

Graduation Ceremony at Admiral Makarov State UniversityOn 28 February, a great number of people witnessed the graduation ceremony at the Admiral Makarov State University of Marine...

Round-the-world Expedition CompletedOn 18 January 2015, the round-the-world expedition of the oceanographic research vessel Admiral Vladimirsky (Captain: member of HSR, A. Pyshkin)...

Members of the Hydrographic Society Benelux (HSB) and the Deutsche Hydrographische Gesellschaft (DHyG) travelled to the island of Terschelling for a two-day workshop packed with pr...

In Memory of the First Russian Seafarer On 19 September 2014, D.L. Schennikov, member of the Hydrographic Society, and representing the delegation of public organisations of Russia...

AHS Annual General Meeting (AGM) The AHS AGM was held in Sydney in November with a small gathering meeting at the NSW State Library followed by an informal dinner. The meeting saw...

The Hydrographic Society Benelux, together with the dredgers organisation CEDA, assembled on 30 September at the headquarters of Van Oord in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. After a buf...