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 In December 2004, the Hydrographic Society Benelux held a mini-workshop during which the winner was announced of the Educational Fund ‘best thesis of the year’ award. Survey s...

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AHS is pleased to announce that Vice Admiral Chris Ritchie, former Chief of the Royal Australian Navy, AOTM chairman and patron of the Australasian Hydrographic Society, will repre...

News About ‘The old Surveyor’ It is unbelievable: our membership is growing but not a single member takes the half hour required to express his or her either positive or negative o...

The fifth Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Hydrographic Society Benelux (HSB) took place on 17th February in the Exhibition Centre Neeltje Jans, followed by a workshop entitled...

News Annual General Meeting The second Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Hydro-graphic Society Benelux (HSB) took at the Faculty of Geodesy of the Technical University in Delft p...

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Three divisions have a special place because they serve all the others. First of these is the Ports, Waterways and Maritime Affairs Policy Division. Second, the Flemish Nautical A...

HSB Council convoked the members for an EGM at Van Oord in Rotterdam on 29th October 2004 to vote on the HSB joining the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies as a fou...

News Still Waiting? Summer is all gone - so now is the time for you to act. Take up the challenge and sent your response to us by mail to [email protected] and your input will be pu...

News The third Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Hydrographic Society Benelux (HSB) took place on 13 February at Delft University of Technology. A workshop was held prior to the...

News Much has happened during this summer in relation to the transition of The Hydrographic Society towards becoming the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies. During...

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...

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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 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...

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News AHS Education Award Applications for the Aud$2500 Award for the Academic Year 2005 are now being accepted from applicants residing in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea...

News At Annual General Meetings over recent years HSR members have in conversations among themselves expressed their anxiety concerning a steady decrease in numbers of hydrographic...

News Web-site HSB Renewed The Hydrographic Society Benelux recently has renewed its web-site www.Hydrographicso ciety.nl - a valuable tool for communication between our members and...

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 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...

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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...