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...

From 11 to 13 September 2013, the University of Oldenburg (Germany) was the stage of the 4th edition of YOUMARES, a conference aiming to provide a platform for young maritime scien...

The 12th Geological and Biological Seafloor Habitat Mapping (GeoHab) conference was held in Rome, Italy, from 6 to 10 May 2013, hosted by the Geological Survey of Italy (ISPRA) tog...

This year’s Ocean Business conference had a busy programme. The traditional programme of trade show, live demonstrations and workshops is gaining more popularity among the hydrogra...

From 26 to 28 March 2013, US Hydro 2013 took place in New Orleans, at the mouth of the Mississippi river, USA. Just a block away from the famous French Quarter, the venue provided...

Experts on marine and river dune dynamics gathered in the medieval city of Bruges, Belgium, for the fourth conference on this topic from 15 to 17 April 2013. Initiated in 2000 by t...

The annual Seabed Mapping and Inspection conference took place from 6 to 8 February 2013 in Geilo, Norway. The conference had more than 150 participants, and included people workin...

The hydrographic conference Hydro12 took place from 13 to 15 November 2012 on board the permanently moored former cruise vessel SS Rotterdam in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. This ven...

The 2nd Fluvial Hydrography Workshop, organised and hosted by the Peru Hydrographic Service for Navigation of the Amazon (SHNA), was held in Iquitos, Peru, from 12 to 13 November 2...

From 3 to 5 October 2012, the seventh conference of the IAG/IHO Advisory Board on the Law of the Sea (ABLOS) took place, in the Princess Grace Theatre in Monaco. This was the first...

Between 25 and 28 September 2012, marine technicians from all continents met at the Dutch NIOZ Institute (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research), on the island of Texel, for...

The Conference was held in the main hall of the Auditorium Ranier III in Monaco from 23 to 27 April 2012 which had been conceded to the IHB by the Government of the Principality. I...

More than 200 hydrographic and marine charting experts and other scientists met during the International Shallow Survey Conference held from 20 to 24 February 2012 in Wellington, N...

Events during the weekend before the recent international Hydro2011 conference had the organisers reading the fine print of their event insurance policy as they grappled with possi...

More than 200 ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) experts came together at the Teledyne ADCP in Action conference in San Diego. By bringing these experts together, Teledyne ha...

This is a report on the first IHO sponsored Database Design and Management Training Course delivered to the East Asian Hydrographic Commission. The hydrographic community is tackli...

Ocean Tech Expo 2011 was held from 17 – 19 May on the waterfront at the Newport Yachting Center in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. This year’s event was the 5th in the Ocean Tech Expo...

The Hydrographic Society of America organised a perfect thirteenth edition of the US Hydro conference in the Marriott Waterside Hotel in Tampa, Florida, USA, between 25 and 28 Apri...

It was the German Hydrographic Society’s turn to organise last year’s Hydro conference that took place from 2 - 5 November. For the event, the society choose the highly sophisticat...

AUVSI's Unmanned Systems is the world's largest event on unmanned systems and in 2010 it was held in Denver (CO), USA. The symposium, although mainly focused on aerial vehicles, fe...

The UUVS annual show provided an excellent forum for the ROV and AUV industries to discuss the latest advancements in technology and its application. Each year, a strong technical...

The OCEANS Conference, the yearly gathering of the community active in ocean engineering and marine technology, was held in the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, WA fr...