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...

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...

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 New Zealand Region It has been reported that in September 2004 HMNZS Resolution completed surveying the final areas of Shipping Lane One; the approaches to Tauranga, thus com...

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...

It is with great pleasure that the AHS announces that Vice-Admiral Chris Ritchie, AO, RANR, recently retired Chief of the Royal Australian Navy, has accepted the invitation of the...

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 A combined AHS Annual General Meeting and General Meeting of the East Australia Region was held on Tuesday 27th September 2005 in The Wardroom, HMAS Kuttabul, Sydney. We had t...

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 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...

The Service reports that HMAS Melville recently completed a wide-ranging surveying season covering much of Papua New Guinea (PNG) in support of the PNG Hydrographic and Charting Re...

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 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...

The HSR secretary Valentin Smirnov together with other HSR members were in Kaliningrad (Russia) from 24 to 27 September 2007, during the Museum of the World Ocean's 4th Internatio...

Early Hydrography Recognised   Willem Janszoon Monument Unveiled in Canberra The last project commemorating the 400th anniversary of Australia first being charted took p...

Commission 4, Newsletter, September 2007 Since our last meeting in May (unbelievably, only just a few months ago), we have all been busy trying to keep our health, family and c...

East Australia Region Commander (CMDR) John Maschke of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and chair of the East Australia Region of the Australasian Hydrographic Society was recently...

HYDRO 2007 The HYDRO 2007 Committee has been making steady progress on this significant international conference to be held at Cairns, Australia from 21st to 24th November 2007. T...

RUSALCA Expedition HSR members Prof. Dr Sergey Alexeev, Prof. Dr Nikolay Neronov and Alexander Fyodorov, and head of expedition Dr Vladimir Smolin took part in preparation and car...

Survey Vessels On Friday 20th April 2007 at approximately 10.00 a.m. the former hunter tugboat Holland sailed from the harbour of Harlingen with some eighty members onboard, for a...

It has been said that the commissions serve as the engine for FIG. The chairs of each commission interact collectively with FIG Council and our membership at large via the FIG Advi...

14th Annual General Meeting The fifteenth year of existence of the Hydrographic Society, Russia has passed, and on 27th March in Saint Petersburg the fourteenth AGM was held in a c...

HYDRO 2007 The HYDRO 2007 Committee has been making steady progress on this significant international conference to be held at Cairns, Australia from 21st to 24th November 2007. T...