Students studying or researching in a maritime discipline can look forward to be awarded by the Annual Education Award of the Australasian Hydrographic Society. This award supports capacity building in...

The deepwater research vessel Tangaroa of the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) of New Zealand undertakes regular research expeditions to the Antarctic waters. In the last eight...

Scandinavia is bustling with the building of ocean windmills, and the potential for bigger and better offshore wind facilities seems endless. However, survey remains a challenge. The need for reliable...

Many coastal states are engaged in ocean mapping as part of their UNCLOS-driven programmes to project sovereign rights over the deep seabed beyond two hundred nautical miles. The resulting datasets...

The States parties to the Convention on the Law of the Sea today elected Fernando Manuel Maia Pimentel of Portugal to serve in his personal capacity for a five-year term...

Geoacoustics recently delivered two complete Geoacoustics Deep Tow 2000 combined chirp- and sidescan sonars systems to the Hong Kong-based survey company EGS. The system is interfaced to C-View-software, a specially...

This month’s interviewee has over recent years dedicated his time to addressing problems in oceanography, as well as history and the contemporary state of high-level training for specialist hydrographers. He...

Global warming, climate change, rising sea levels and increased commercial exploitation of the seabed and sea space are important global indicators of a changing world environment. A crucial role is...

The Australasian Hydrographic Society offers an Annual Education Award of AUD $ 2,500. The award is open to students studying or researching in any maritime discipline including, but not limited...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has awarded Lockheed Martin a US$2.8 million contract for the initial design of the Replacement Human Occupied Vehicle (RHOV), a next generation three-person Deep Submergence...