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...

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...

News The Old Surveyor I don’t feel like an old surveyor but I have gained some experience as a hydrographic surveyor as I have been involved in surveying since 1984. In my early da...

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 In the May issue I called for a response - let us have it, not only from our Danish members but worldwide! Let us try to find our ‘old surveyor’. Even if age prevents you but...

News Still waiting? Take up the challenge use the opportunity and sent your member input on any subject to us by mail to [email protected], and your input will be in the coming issu...

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 Workshop Harbour Approach The HSB will organise a workshop on harbour approach, to be held in Ostend, Belgium, on Friday 29th November 2002. The preliminary programme for the...

News ‘The old Surveyor’ The summer 2002 is now history but just see who is popping up - a youngster with his vision - a good acquainted in his fifties who has survived that long w...

The Hydrographic Society of America (THSOA) is busy preparing for the US Hydrographic Conference 2007, to be held 14th to 17th May 2007 in Norfolk, Virginia. The conference will co...

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...

News HSB Educational Fund The Hydrographic Society Bene-lux (HSB) operates an Educational Fund (EF) for the purpose of enlarging and improving hydrographic knowledge. The regulatio...

The Gold Book of Saint-Petersburg On 14th October some HSR members took part in a rare event: a ceremony of signing of a page of ‘The Golden Book of Saint Petersburg’, devoted to...

News As you may remember, in the June issue of Hydro international (Hydro international , June 2002, Volume 7, Number 5) we informed you concerning the summer 2002 joint stock comp...

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...

On Friday 14 June, in the presence of a large audience, Thales Navigation BV organised a corporate workshop ‘New GPS equipment’ under the auspices of the Hydrographic Society Benel...

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...

A session of HSR Council took place on 1st February 2006. Under consideration was the IHO CL ¹8/2006 announcement that the United Nations General Assembly on 29th November 2005 ado...

On 19 April, the Hydrographic Society Benelux, together with The Netherlands Institute of Navigation and the working group Applied Space Geodesy of The Netherlands Association of G...

News In St. Petersburg at the mouth of the Neva River there lies at moorage the world-famous icebreaker, Krasin. The icebreaker was built in Great Britain in 1917 and named Svyatog...

News The Library of the Russian Hydrographic Service observed its bicentenary on 16th April. The Library is a modern book depository enjoying a significant collection of scientific...