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 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...

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...

HSB Workshop Oceanography Estimates of global sea level rising during the 21st century vary from 9 to 88 cm, with latest results in fact pointing to the lower values (Intergovernme...

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...

News After an unusually warm and sunny summer holiday season, members of the Hydrographic Society, Russia met again from 26th to 29th September at the Saint Petersburg exhibition c...

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 Harbour Approach Information Workshop A workshop organised by the HSB in Zeebrugge, Belgium, on 29th November 2002 was attended by more than sixty people. The topic for the wo...

News Captain 1st rank V. G. Smirnov, a Member of the Council of the Hydrographic Society of Russia (HSR), on 19th December 2003 presented a new book, The History of the Marine Char...

News The Hydrographic Society of Russia (HSR), has always kept in touch with companies working in the field of navigation and hydrography and taken an active interest in their new...

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 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 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...

AHS held its Annual General Meeting on Thursday 14th September 2006, kindly hosted by Sydney Ports Corporation at their historic facilities. Vice Admiral Chris Ritchie attended as...

News The AHS has pleasure in drawing the attention of the worldwide Hydro/MetOceano community to the inaugural ‘Maritime Australia Award’, administered by the ANI/CMP. It is in the...

News The annual election was recently held for a proportion of the positions on the Australasian Hydrographic Surveyors' Accreditation Panel. It was pleasing to see some competitio...

News East Australia Region (EAR) As scheduled, the EAR held a General Meeting at the Australian Hydrographic Office, Wollongong, New South Wales. Captain Bruce Kafer, RAN, The Hydr...

News East Australia Region The headquarters of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority in Canberra was the venue for an East Australia Region General Meeting on Wednesday 11th Aug...