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...

The Hydrographic Society of America (THSOA) is busy preparing for the US Hydrographic Conference 2007, to be held 14th to 17th May 2007 in Norfolk, Virginia. The conference will co...

News ‘The old Surveyor’ The summer of 2002 is almost history; it is still hot and the beach is where we dream to be, but where are you? Sorry, I could not see you behind the compu...

News HSB Educational Fund The Hydrographic Society Bene-lux (HSB) operates an Educational Fund (EF) for the purpose of enlarging and improving hydrographic knowledge. The regulatio...

The Gold Book of Saint-Petersburg On 14th October some HSR members took part in a rare event: a ceremony of signing of a page of ‘The Golden Book of Saint Petersburg’, devoted to...

News As you may remember, in the June issue of Hydro international (Hydro international , June 2002, Volume 7, Number 5) we informed you concerning the summer 2002 joint stock comp...

News The Hydrographic Society Benelux (HSB) held a workshop entitled ‘Hydrography and geophysics: close neighbours’ in the Department of Geomechanics, Ghent University, Belgium, on...

News After a summer break, a small informal meeting of HSR members took place on 3rd September. The Society member captain of the 1st rank (ret.) Aleksandr Gruzdev made a short rep...

News Successful Workshop Hydro-Archaeology The workshop held on the subject of hydrography and archaeology on April 11th was very successful. Underwater archeology is a very popula...

News Dutch Pavilion at OI 2004 At Oceanology International 2004 was the largest Dutch Pavilion until now. A lot of corporate members of the HSB participated in this great initiati...

On Friday 22nd September the regular workshop of the Hydrographic Society Benelux (HSB) was hosted by the Shipping and Transport College (STC) in Rotterdam. This new building on th...

News On Friday 16th April 2004 the Hydrographic Society held a workshop in Zierikzee, sponsored by Noordhoek. The theme of the afternoon meeting was ‘ROV support for underwater con...

News Still waiting? Take up the challenge use the opportunity and sent your member input on any subject to us by mail to [email protected], and your input will be unedited in the c...

We Salute the Retired Surveyor What has happened to the Danish input in the year 2005? The main reason may be that the Hon. Secretary Hugo Meister has taken leave from his work due...

News Use Our Web-site to Publicise Your Company Our web-site provides an excellent possibility for companies and institutions operating in the hydrographic field of business to pro...

News The old Surveyor It is summer, it is hot and the beach is full of them... but where are you? Sorry, I could not see you behind the computer screen - oh, you are typing your...

News Workshop Special Offshore Projects On Friday the 20th of September the Hydrographic Society Benelux organised a workshop at the Faculty of Geodesy of the TUD in Delft with the...

News Sitting on the Bench? Until now you might have thought that the invitation to contribute appearing under the above headline applied only to elderly retired surveyors sitting o...

Hydrographic Faculty Jubilee Hydrographic faculty cadets, teachers, commanders, graduates of different years, and veterans gathered on Saturday 3rd December in the Hall of Revoluti...

News July and August are two months when inhabitants of Saint Petersburg can enjoy life at a summer residence, at the sea and in nature. Activity of the HSR during these months pra...

HYDRO 2006 Project Team The HSB HYDRO 2006 project team is currently busy organising a mass-(e-)mailing to the hydrographic and associated communities. As already announced, the ev...

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...

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 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...