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 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 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 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...

News West Australia Region The West Australia Region signalled it is back in the action again after years on the sideline when it held a well attended meeting at the West End Taver...

News Captain of the 1st. rank Oleg Churkin, a member of the HSR, recently submitted to the Council of the Society information on the participation of the State Research Navigationa...

News West Australian Region After six years in hibernation it is very pleasing to report that the West Australian Region has been revived as a result of the initiative of Mal Jones...

News Australasian Hydrographic Society Lydia Taylor, AHS Education Award winner for Academic Year 2004, has reported on her participation in the scientific cruise led by Geoscience...

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...