The new Gwyn Griffiths Underwater Robotics Award was one of the announcements made at the Society for Underwater Technology’s (SUT’s) Annual General Meeting by the new President of Council, Judith...

Hydro International spoke to five leading experts about the present and future of the hydrographic industry. In this interview, John Nyberg (NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey) looks forward to a...

MarineDash is a newly launched online service designed to connect vessel owners with prospective charterers. The service will cater initially to vessels for hydrographic and geophysical survey, ROV and dive...

Over the past few years, the University of Delaware, USA, has participated in a state programme which supports rescuing abandoned crab pots from the seabed and researches technologies to make...

During his military career, he was the senior policy lead negotiating the shared objectives for the Allied System for Geospatial Intelligence (ASG), a geospatial intelligence burden-sharing collaboration between the US,...

With millions of people around the world at risk from rising seas, it is essential to continue measuring the changing height of the sea surface to ensure that decision makers...

Bathymetry, the topography of the seafloor, is a fundamental feature of the ocean. Accurate bathymetric data is the foundation for much of ocean science and policy. For example, nautical charts...

"We had just finished setting up and securing the scientific equipment in the main lab of RV Ronald Brown when we found out that our research cruise to the South...

Every spring in the Northern hemisphere, the ocean surface erupts in a massive bloom of phytoplankton. Like plants, these single-celled floating organisms use photosynthesis to turn light into energy, consuming...

Recently, the European Marine Board published a report on the current status of the European fleet of research vessels. This Position Paper describes how the fleet will need to develop in the future to ensure that it will continue to provide the same high level of support to science and hydrography globally, as well as highlighting ways in which management could be made more efficient. This article is an extract of the report. Recently, the European Marine Board published a report on the current status of the European fleet of research vessels. This position paper describes how the fleet will need to develop...