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 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...

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News During the past few years in Russia there has been an increase in the number of various private firms connected with navigation and hydrography. The Hydrographic Society, Rus...

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September the first this year was a special day for Russian hydrographers and members of the Hydrographic society. This was the day honorary HSR member, Chief of the Head Departmen...

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News The First Atlas of Lake Ladoga A atlas of Lake Ladoga, an ancient gulf of the Baltic Sea, has recently been published. It was edited in St Petersburg under the leadership of H...

On a wet day, the 21st of June, the graduation ceremony was held on a quay named after Lieutenant Shmidt. The quay was in front of the SPbNI institute-house near the statue of Admi...

News East Australia Region The East Australia Region of the Australasian Hydrographic Society held a General Meeting, hosted by David Garforth and his Bruttour International team,...

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...

News Besides its regular monthly get-togethers, the Society has had a busy time planning a Hydrographic Course, the Technical Awareness Seminar (TAS 05) and an outing to a locally...

News The Hydrographic Society of South Africa continues to flourish and has just started the second year of revived activity since its rebirth at the beginning of 2002. An Annual G...

Only on 25th June could the HSR Council gather for its first session in its new composition. The session was devoted to the organisation of work, council functions being distribute...

News It has been decided to postpone the Annual General Meeting of the Hydrographic Society of South Africa (HSSA) until after the end of the financial year (February 2003). This w...

News The second AGM of the revamped Hydrographic Society of South Africa was held in late February 2004, with the re-election of Aubrey Price (Reson) as Presi-dent of the Society a...

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 June 24th the Hydrographic Society Benelux held a workshop entitled ‘Hydrography! @Your Service’. Although still not yet officially ratified, the workshop also related a li...

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 East Australian Region (EAR) of the Australasian Hydrographic Society (AHS) held its Annual General Meeting on 12th November 2003. The meeting was kindly hosted by Waterwa...

News HBS Workshop and Annual General Meeting The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Hydrographic Society of the Benelux was held on 7th February 2003 at the Delft University of...

News Although the HSSA has not contributed to this column for a number of months, the Society is still active and meeting regularly every month in Cape Town. A number of resolution...

News The Sixty Second session of the Hydrographic Society of Russia (HSR) Council took place on 15 November 2004. As usual, the President and the Secretary reported on the work exe...

Christmas Workshop The Hydrographic Society Benelux (HSB) has held its Christmas workshop in Utrecht, on 16 December. The theme of the afternoon was ‘Hydrographic data management,...

News General director of the Federal State Unitary Hydrographic Department (FSUHD) of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation Victor Medvedev informed the HSR Council i...

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...