The Executive Board of Delft University of Technology (DUT) has appointed Dr. Dick G. Simons as professor of the new chair ‘Seafloor Mapping’. A co-operation of DUT with TNO Physics...

Hydrography students at the Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz (MIWB) in the Netherlands deploy former Rijkswaterstaat survey vessel Octans for many practical exercises in accordance with FIG/IHO guidelines. Formerly based at...

Gardline Hydro is to undertake its second two-year contract under the Civil Hydrography Programme (CHP) on behalf of its client, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). The offshore Scotland contract...

Tom McCulloch recently published a book entitled “Mandalay to Norseman” depicting his youth in Scotland and his wartime adventures at sea and its aftermath. It is well written and informative...

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), in partnership with the University Of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Higher Learning (USM), announce for 2004 the inauguration of a series of United States-wide seminars...

A Canadian Company, CPCS Transcom of Ottawa, has been awarded a contract to set up a National Maritime Safety Authority in Papua New Guinea. This new PNG Authority, fashioned after...

International Hydrographic Management Consulting (IHMC) has recently completed a Review of Actual and Current Arrangements for Carrying Out Routine Resurvry Tasks of the Civil Hydrography Programme for the Maritime and...

The IMarEST has accredited its first marine science courses at Plymouth University. The courses awarded accreditation are the MSc course in Hydrography and the MRes in Geomatics. Two of the...

A Canadian Company, CPCS Transcom of Ottawa has been awarded a contract to set up a National Maritime Safety Authority in Papua New Guinea. This new PNG Authority, which is...

Aqua Vision organises the 7th Acoustic Doppler Current Meter (ADCM) workshop in The Netherlands. This year the workshop will be organised in co-operation with the Laboratory for Physical Geography of...