For the fifth year in a row, the Lake Survey was held in the Netherlands. This year Teledyne CARIS collaborated with Boskalis and Fugro in a one-week all-encompassing practical sur...

Overlooking the large and choppy natural port of Kingston, Jamaica, and surrounded by waving palm trees, the International Seabed Authority (ISA) headquarters hosted the 23rd ISA A...

A new Working Group on Marine Geospatial Information was established during the 7th Session of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (...

The Marine Technology Society (MTS) and the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES) cosponsored the ‘OCEANS '17 MTS/IEEE Aberdeen’, from 19-22 June 2017, at the AECC in...

The regional IC-ENC Office in Brazil became fully operational on 21 June 2016. It has been a year of learning, hard work and dedication to keep IC-ENC's validation high levels on t...

In conjunction with the release of Seabed Survey Data Model (SSDM) version 2 earlier this year, PETRONAS took the initiative to organise the SSDM Showcase 2017 on 23 May 2017 at th...

This edition of Ocean Business was the time to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the event and the organisers made an effort to bring the people who started Ocean Business together...

The first Assembly of the International Hydrographic Organization was held in the Auditorium Rainer III of Monaco, from 23 to 28 April 2017. I have entitled my report after a quota...

At the end of October 2016, the Central Dredging Association (CEDA) co-hosted a conference with the Portuguese Engineers Association (OE) in Lisbon, Portugal. The CEDA Iberian Conf...

The International Marine Technician (INMARTECH) group was established in 1995 by the global network for operators of oceangoing research vessels formerly known as International Shi...

Twenty 3rd-year students of ocean technology from the Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz (MIWB, The Netherlands) participated in the 4th edition of the Lake Survey. Building on las...

I was amazed to learn that the topography of planet Mars is better known than the topography of our own seabed. This fact was echoed by Admiral Bruno Frachon, the chief of the Fren...

European surveyors working with ADCP met in Utrecht, The Netherlands, on 15 and 16 June 2016 for the ADCP Workshop organised by AquaVision. As this event had already been held ...

The Permanent Committee on Tides & Mean Sea Level (PCTMSL) Bureau in Australia has sponsored a tides workshop aimed at raising the level of tidal knowledge of those people invo...

The West Australian Region of the Australasian Hydrographic Society organised a Technical Presentation on 9 May 2016 at the Curtin University’s Hub for Immersive Visualisatio...

The key objective of NOAA’s ENC Training Programme is to educate Hydrographic Offices (HOs) on ENC workflow in the Office of Coast Survey’s Marine Chart Division (MCD)....

The London ExCeL event venue in the UK was once again the host of the biennial Oceanology International, attracting thousands of visitors from the marine science community fro...

On 17 December 2015, the closing ceremony of the JICA group training course for hydrographic surveying was held at JICA Tokyo International Center in Tokyo, Japan. At the closing c...

The HYPACK 2016 Training Event was held from 4-7 January 2016 in Tampa, FL, USA. The event was attended by over 325 people representing more than 25 countries, and hundre...

An International Workshop on Tsunami Inundation Mapping was held in Tokyo, Japan on 25-26 November 2015, aiming to improve the capacity of Hydrographic Offices (HOs) in East Asian...

A very fruitful exhibition, but above all an interesting experience. That’s how Radac BV’s marketing manager Katja Roose would typify Oceanology International, which wa...

The EMODnet Open Conference took place in Ostend, Belgium on 20 October 2015 and aimed to connect the 350 users, data providers, politicians, industry members and other stakeholder...

The biennial event Shallow Survey was held in Plymouth, UK, from 14-18 September 2015. The Roland Levinsky building of the university hosted the conference, welcoming over 300 dele...

This year, the International Hydrographic Bureau Directing Committee organised the celebration of the WHD on 30 June so as to take advantage of the presence in Monaco’s harbour of...

The key objective of the NOAA Chart Adequacy Workshop was to demonstrate techniques to evaluate the suitability of nautical chart products using chart quality information and publi...