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 At Annual General Meetings over recent years HSR members have in conversations among themselves expressed their anxiety concerning a steady decrease in numbers of hydrographic...

News Web-site HSB Renewed The Hydrographic Society Benelux recently has renewed its web-site www.Hydrographicso ciety.nl - a valuable tool for communication between our members and...

News Workshop Harbour Approach The HSB will organise a workshop on harbour approach, to be held in Ostend, Belgium, on Friday 29th November 2002. The preliminary programme for the...

News It was dull weather when, on 20 December last year, some HSR members along with representatives of St. Petersburg Administration and hydrographic organisations, pupils of scho...

News On Friday 12th September the Hydrographic Society Benelux held a workshop titled ‘Renewable Energy and Hydrography’ at the Hogeschool Rijswijk. The workshop was well attended;...

News The 5th Russian Scientific and Technical Conference, under the title ‘Current Status and Challenges of Navigation and Oceanography’ (‘NO-2004’) was held in St. Petersburg from...

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 The HSB held a workshop about ‘Airborne techniques’ on 15 October 2004. The workshop was held in ‘Mobilion’, Utrecht. The workshop started with an overview of airborne techniq...

News Hydro 2002 The biennial international hydro-graphic conference Hydro 2002 was a success. The Kieler Schloss in Kiel provided a very suitable location for the three-day event,...

Educational Fund In recent years The Hydrographic Society, being a charity, has operated an Educational Fund in two ways. A central fund was governed by Council and individual bra...

News Each year before Victory Day (in Russia 9th May) a group of veteran-hydrographers makes a trip to the west coast of Ladoga Lake. There, close to the lighthouse Osinovets, is a...

News Sitting on the Beach? Summerholiday and too warm. But still - take up the challenge and send your response to us by mail at [email protected] and your input will placed unedite...

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...

News East Australia Region After several years of yeoman service as the Honorary Treasurer of the East Australia Region of the Society, Patrick Roche has had to relinquish the offi...

The fourteenth year of existence of the Hydrographic Society, Russia has passed and on 18th April the thirteenth AGM was held in Saint Petersburg in a conference hall of the Head D...

News From 21st to 23rd September 2004 some HSR members, including the secretary, visited Sevastopol to take part in the Jubilee Conference of the Marine Hydrophysical Institute (MH...

AHS is pleased to announce that Vice Admiral Chris Ritchie, former Chief of the Royal Australian Navy, AOTM chairman and patron of the Australasian Hydrographic Society, will repre...

News About ‘The old Surveyor’ It is unbelievable: our membership is growing but not a single member takes the half hour required to express his or her either positive or negative o...

News Gentlemen, it has been reported from New Zealand that the offshore work with regard to the project to define their Continental Shelf is now virtually complete and that Land In...

News Hydrographer Graduation The graduation of young officer-hydrographers took place at the Saint-Petersburg Naval Institute on June 18th. Awards are made annually by the HSR Coun...

XII RGS Congress The XII congress of the Russian Geographical Society (RGS) took place from 15th to 19th August, in Kronstadt. Participants were delegates from all regions of the R...

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...

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 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 The East Australian Region held a General Meeting on 19th August 2003 at the offices of HSA Systems in North Sydney, who very generously hosted the refreshments we enjoyed. Th...