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 European Marine Sand and Gravel Group (EMSAGG) held its 5th conference on 4 and 5 June 2015 in Delft, the Netherlands. More than 100 delegates from eight countries gathered at...

On 4 June 2015, the first North Sea Offshore Event took place, excellently organised by ‘Ontwikkelingsbedrijf Noord-Holland Noord’. The event started decentralised with seven morni...

The ‘Blue Growth’ conference held in London in May 2015 and hosted by British software developer Cadcorp, was an opportunity for marine and maritime professionals to discuss some o...

The biennial event Ocean Business took place on the quayside of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK, from 14-16 April 2015. According to the organisers, the number of...

The launching ceremony of the Historical Maritime Atlas of Colombia XVI-XVIII was organised by the General Maritime Directorate of the Colombian Navy (the head of which is Rear Adm...

US Hydro 2015 convened at National Harbor, MD, USA from 16–19 March 2015. US Hydro is a biannual conference hosted by the Hydrographic Society of America (THSOA). THSOA and Canadia...

Nine years after the first Conference, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of the UNESCO and The Oceanographic Society (TOS) organised a second conference from 17-...

The HQS Wellington at the Embankment, London, UK, was the stage for the conference ‘e-Navigation Revolution’ that was held from 11-12 November 2014. As the name of the event implie...

The INMARTECH 2014 conference for Research Vessel Technicians was hosted by Oregon State University in Corvallis, USA. More than 200 attendees from all over the world exchanged inn...

The fifth Extraordinary International Hydrographic Conference (V EIHC) of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) was held in the Auditorium Rainier III, Monaco from 6 to...

Organised and hosted by the Hydrographic Society UK, Hydro14 was the latest in a series of international hydrographic symposia which date back to 1976. The three-day conference and...

Just before the INSPIRE Conference 2014 in Aalborg, Denmark, about 30 people sat together on board the Barkentina LOA, a beautiful tall ship. They discussed how to make better use...

Aqua Vision, Teledyne RD Instruments’ representative in the Netherlands, has been hosting local ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) Workshops where users were able to share in...

During the 15th CARIS Users’ Conference it became evident that GIS technology is becoming a standard within the hydrographic industry. Development of the Blue Economy brought the 1...

In many ways, the 2014 Canadian Hydrographic Conference (CHC2014) was a departure from tradition. This bi-annual event, Canada’s turn in the ongoing US-Canada hydrographic conferen...

The organisers of Oceanology International can look back to another great event that was held from 11 to 13 March 2014 at the ExCeL Centre in London, UK. This is also the case for...

The annual multi-day event organised by the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies (IFHS) was this year somewhat less exuberant than the usual Hydro conferences. Last y...

The Portuguese Hydrographic Institute organised a seminar devoted to the ‘Contribution of Hydrography for the development and security of coastal countries’. The seminar welcomed 1...

The inaugural Oceanology International China (OI China), held in Shanghai in early September 2013, proved successful. The 2013 event was attended by 4,296 visitors over the three d...

Indonesia is the largest archipelagic country in the world with 17,508 islands, 81,000km of coastline and 3.1 million km2 of maritime area. It was therefore a welcome initiative by...

Teledyne RDI Instruments held their 9th ADCPs in Action Users’ Conference from 29 September to 3 October 2013 on Coronado Island in San Diego, California. With a mix of social even...