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...

News The Sixty Second session of the Hydrographic Society of Russia (HSR) Council took place on 15 November 2004. As usual, the President and the Secretary reported on the work exe...

Christmas Workshop The Hydrographic Society Benelux (HSB) has held its Christmas workshop in Utrecht, on 16 December. The theme of the afternoon was ‘Hydrographic data management,...

News General director of the Federal State Unitary Hydrographic Department (FSUHD) of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation Victor Medvedev informed the HSR Council i...

News The HSSA AGM was held at the end of January 2005 and Aubrey Price (president) and Steve Smith (secretary/treasurer) were re-elected to manage the affairs of the Society for th...

Recent News Our monthly meetings continue as planned with increased turnout and interest from existing and new members. The society meets at 18:00hrs on the last Tuesday of the mon...

News The General Meeting of the South African Hydrographic Society is now a firm fixture on members monthly activities and it is encouraging to see old and new colleagues attend ou...

News On Wednesday 22nd October 2003 the Hydrographic Society held a workshop sponsored by MacArtney Benelux. The theme of the afternoon meeting was Ocean Profiling Systems and the...

News Corporate Workshop 8th September 2004 Simrad BV, on behalf of the Hydrographic Society, gave a corporate workshop on 8th September 2004 entitled ‘Shallow Water Survey’. Almost...

News The Hydrographic Society of Benelux held a workshop at Ixsea Oceano bv in Haarlem, The Netherlands on 11 June 2003. Seventy people from the dredging and offshore industries, s...

News A meeting of the AHS Council was held in Sydney during the afternoon of Friday 11th March 2005. In the evening, AHS president and IFHS chairman Commander Paul Hornsby hosted a...

News The Australasian Hydrographic Society congratulates the Australian Hydrographic Service on achieving a milestone on 26th August 2005, when it was certified as a ‘Quality Endor...

News New Zealand Region It has been confirmed that the NZ Region Annual General Meeting & Seminar will be held in conjunction with the LINZ Hydrographic Users' Group at the Overse...

Re-surveying Making a new chart of the western Baltic Since the beginning of April two Royal Danish Administration of Navigation and Hydrography (RDANH) smaller survey boats, SKA 1...

News The Deployable Geospatial Support Team (DGST), then called the Hydrographic Office Deployable Survey Unit, was originally created in the 1980s to conduct hydrographic surveyin...

News In April this year the Hydro-graphic Society of Russia celebrated its tenth anniversary. The Society was established in 1992 by a group of 23 hydrographers from different Russ...

News On Friday 18th June 2004 the Hydrographic Society Benelux (HSB) held a workshop entitled ‘Observation methods and reporting for Environmental and Ecological topics’ in ‘Het H...

News Hydrographer’s Day 13 October is the Hydrographer’s Day in Russia and members of the Hydrographic Society of Russia in celebrate it. This year, the day was special because it...

Our patron Vice-Admiral Chris Ritchie AO, RANR has been pleased to announce the following awards to individual and group members of the AHS and the contributing community. The Soci...

News The Australasian Hydrographic Society Education Award of AUD$ 2500 for the academic year 2004 has been granted to Wellington, New Zealand-born Miss Lydia Taylor, from the Univ...

News East Australia Region The East Australia Region of the Australasian Hydrographic Society held a General Meeting, hosted by David Garforth and his Bruttour International team,...

News New Zealand Region The NZR held its AGM on 19th November 2004, when those present were informed that approval has been given for the Australasian Hydrographic Society to organ...

News West Australia Region The West Australia Region signalled it is back in the action again after years on the sideline when it held a well attended meeting at the West End Taver...

News West Australian Region After six years in hibernation it is very pleasing to report that the West Australian Region has been revived as a result of the initiative of Mal Jones...

News Australasian Hydrographic Society Lydia Taylor, AHS Education Award winner for Academic Year 2004, has reported on her participation in the scientific cruise led by Geoscience...

East Australia Region On 9th May 2006, EAR enjoyed a General Meeting kindly and generously hosted by Newcastle Port Authority. The minutes of the meeting held in Wollongong on 7th...