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 the summer of 2003 an international memorial expedition ‘Convoy-2003’ took place dedicated to the memory of vessels sunk in the Barents Sea in July 1942 during the mission...

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...

News It was dull weather when, on 20 December last year, some HSR members along with representatives of St. Petersburg Administration and hydrographic organisations, pupils of scho...

News On Friday 12th September the Hydrographic Society Benelux held a workshop titled ‘Renewable Energy and Hydrography’ at the Hogeschool Rijswijk. The workshop was well attended;...

News The 5th Russian Scientific and Technical Conference, under the title ‘Current Status and Challenges of Navigation and Oceanography’ (‘NO-2004’) was held in St. Petersburg from...

News On Friday 18th June 2004 the Hydrographic Society Benelux (HSB) held a workshop entitled ‘Observation methods and reporting for Environmental and Ecological topics’ in ‘Het H...

News The HSB held a workshop about ‘Airborne techniques’ on 15 October 2004. The workshop was held in ‘Mobilion’, Utrecht. The workshop started with an overview of airborne techniq...

News Hydro 2002 The biennial international hydro-graphic conference Hydro 2002 was a success. The Kieler Schloss in Kiel provided a very suitable location for the three-day event,...

Educational Fund In recent years The Hydrographic Society, being a charity, has operated an Educational Fund in two ways. A central fund was governed by Council and individual bra...

News Each year before Victory Day (in Russia 9th May) a group of veteran-hydrographers makes a trip to the west coast of Ladoga Lake. There, close to the lighthouse Osinovets, is a...

News Sitting on the Beach? Summerholiday and too warm. But still - take up the challenge and send your response to us by mail at [email protected] and your input will placed unedite...

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...

On 22nd June 2006, the day following the International Day of Hydrography, members of the Hydrographic Society and Russian naval officers living in Saint Petersburg had an opportun...

News Gentlemen, it has been reported from New Zealand that the offshore work with regard to the project to define their Continental Shelf is now virtually complete and that Land In...

News Hydrographer Graduation The graduation of young officer-hydrographers took place at the Saint-Petersburg Naval Institute on June 18th. Awards are made annually by the HSR Coun...

XII RGS Congress The XII congress of the Russian Geographical Society (RGS) took place from 15th to 19th August, in Kronstadt. Participants were delegates from all regions of the R...

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...

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 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 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 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 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...