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...

In St. Petersburg, Russia, there are a significant number of educational, design, scientific and industrial enterprises and organisations connected with hydrography and navigation...

Workshop Harbours and Specific Survey ChallengesNearly 100 delegates attended the workshop with the theme Harbours and Specific Survey Challenges, which was held on 8 December 2010...

Shelf-2010On 22 October HSR members took part in the conference devoted to the end of the first stage of works directed at defining and substantiating the continental shelf borders...

East Australian RegionThe East Australian Region ran a very successful one-day seminar in Sydney on Monday 13 September 2010. The seminar was fully subscribed with 20 presentations...

Australasian Hydrographic SocietyAnnual General MeetingFollowing the successful East Australia Region (EAR) Seminar and AGM, the AHS held its AGM. During the meeting the important...

At the time of this newsletter going to print, two FIG Commission 4 publications are nearing completion. They are products resulting from the efforts of two Commission 4 working gr...

Australasian Hydrographic SocietyAHS Education AwardThe Australasian Hydrographic Society offers an Annual Education Award of AUD2,500. The award is open to students studying or re...

The 24th FIG Congress was held in Sydney, Australia from 12-16 April, 2010 and drew a record 2100 delegates to the Sydney Convention Centre. The conference theme was ‘Facing the Ch...

Estuaries and Coast Management WorkshopsDuring the last two workshops, members of the Hydrographic Society were introduced extensively to coastal issues. On Friday 23 April, the me...

Annual General MeetingOn 7 April 2010 the 17th AGM of the Hydrographic Society Russia took place in a conference hall of the Department of Navigation and Oceanography (DNO) of the...

FIG 2010The FIG 2010 World Congress held in Sydney from 11 to 16 April 2010 sought record numbers of attendees for all hydrography sessions. FIG organisers were astounded at the Hy...

The Australasian Hydrographic Society offers an Annual Education Award of AUD2,500. The award is open to students studying or researching in any maritime discipline including, but...

During the Annual General Meeting of the Hydrographic Society Benelux, held on 24 March 2010, at the edge of the construction site of the Second Maasvlakte, graduates were recognis...

On 26 February 2010, a session of HSR Council took place. Questions on the current activities of the Society were discussed. The most important being the preparations for the forth...

Australasian Hydrographic SocietyChange at the TopRecently, Paul Hornsby stood down as President of the Australasian Hydrographic Society (AHS) in order to take up an overseas post...

Hydrographic Society BeneluxThe Europort 2009 exhibition was held in Rotterdam from 3rd to 6th November 2009. Coinciding with this exhibition aimed at the shipping industry there w...

Hydrographic Society Russia  Neva 2009 The 10th International Shipping, Shipbuilding, and Offshore Energy Exhibition ‘Neva 2009' was held in Saint Petersburg on 22-25...

The 7th FIG Regional Meeting, entitled ‘Spatial Data Serving People: Land Governance and the Environment – Building the Capacity’, was held in Hanoi (Vietnam) from 19 to 22 October...

Hydrographic Society Russia HSR Honorary Member Jubilee It seems as though it was only recently that HSR members and hydrographers of Russia marked the 80-year birthday of hono...

Australasian Hydrographic Society  Passing of rear admiral Sir David Haslam KBE, CB The AHS would like to express their sadness at the passing of Davis Haslam who served as t...

Gjoa Haven is a small Arctic hamlet located on the east side of King William Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. It is a place made famous by Roald Amundsen, the first explo...

  Australian Hydrographic Society Australasian Awards for Hydrography The patron of the AHS, vice admiral Chris Ritchie, AO, RAN (retd), has been pleased to approve the fo...

Graduation On 5 March, the graduation ceremony of a new group of young hydrographers took place at the Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy (AMSMA) in St Petersburg (Russia). S...

The FIG/IHO/ICA International Board on the Standards of Competence for Hydrographic Surveyors and Nautical Cartographers (IB) held their annual meeting in April in Genoa (Italy)....

  Hydrographic Society Russia On 3 March 2009, the 16th AGM of the HSR was held in a conference hall of the Department of Navigation and Oceanography in Saint Petersburg. O...