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 Canadian Hydrographic Conference was held in Quebec City from 21 - 23 June. These North American conferences are biennial events that take place alternately in Canada and the U...

Ocean Tech Expo 2010 was held from May 25-27 on the waterfront at the Newport Yachting Center in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. This year’s event was the third in the Ocean Tech Expo...

Underwater Intervention took place in its usual home, the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, USA. This year there was much to celebrate. As well as a strong technic...

Oceanology International 2010, the global forum for the ocean science and marine technology community, saw record-breaking attendance when it was held at London’s ExCeL (UK) from 9...

Hydro9, this year’s International Federation of Hydrographic Society’s annual conference, was presented by the Hydrographic Society of South Africa on 10 — 12 November 2009 in Cape...

The second East Asia Hydrographic Symposium and Exhibition was held in the Legend Hotel in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) on from 20 to 22 October 2009. The Symposium was opened by the as...

The Autumn Symposium organised and hosted by the Southern Region of the Hydrographic Society UK was held on 27 October 2009 at Bradfield College, near Reading, and attracted an att...

The MTS/IEEE Oceans Conference has returned to Biloxi, MS (USA), for Oceans ‘09. The Mississippi Coast Coliseum and Convention Center previously hosted Oceans ‘02 in October 2002....

The 3rd International ECDIS Conference and Exhibition was held in Singapore on 19–21 October 2009. Co-organised by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the UK Hyd...

The Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Showcase (UUVS) 2009, took place in Southampton (UK) on 22 and 23 September 2009. The number of attendees was reasonable, the presentations were wel...

The OmanHydro Symposium, held for the first time at the Al ShafaqClub in Muscat from 15 to 18 March 2009, was organised by the Royal Navy of Oman, one of the first in the region to...

The 4th Extraordinary International Hydrographic Conference (EIHC), held in the Auditorium Rainier III in Monaco from 2 to 4 June, was followed on 5 June by World Hydrography Day....

  Ocean Business   From 31 March to 2 April, Ocean Business and Ocean Careers took centre stage at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton (UK), followed by...

This month we report on the maiden cruise of the ROVLATIS that took place at the beginning of March 2009 aboard the R/V Celtic Explorer. Its designers – the Mobile & Marine Rob...

The first international conference bringing together leading marine scientists, policy-makers and legal experts to develop an integrated approach to the protection of the marine en...

London’s international exhibition and conference centre, ExCeL, hosted Oceanology International 2008 from 11 to 13 March 2008, offering ample, efficient and modern space in the Doc...

The Advance Technology in Offshore Surveying Seminar and Exhibition (ATOSSE) 2008 was held at the Palace Beach & Spa Hotel of the Mines Resort City from 18 to 20 February 2008...

The 8th annual International Lidar Mapping Forum (ILMF) held in Denver (CO, USA) from 21 to 22 February 2008 turned out to be the best ever. With over 580 registered delegates from...

“The greatest challenge to the ocean science and technology sector is to protect the ocean environment and, at the same time, make use of the huge untapped energy reserves and food...

The ninth Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Showcase took place at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Southampton, from 26th to 27th September 2007. This conference/exhibition is on...

Norfolk, Virginia, a city that has played a major role in US maritime history, was the venue for U.S. Hydro 2007. Two hundred years after the founding of the US Coast Survey, and f...