Professor Graham Shimmield is a graduate of the University of Durham, England with a BSc (Honours) degree in Geology. In 1981, he studied for a PhD in marine geochemistry at...

General Acoustics GmbH is a producer of high-technology echo sounders, water level and wave-measuring systems, and developer of LOG_aDSLP/DSLP technology. The company was founded in 1996 by physicists and engineers...

The seabed of the Dutch sector of the North Sea is one of most densely sampled marine areas in the world. Sampling started in the mid-1960s with the exploration of...

This year’s conference of the German Hydrographic Society took place in the north eastern German city of Stralsund from 7-9 June 2004. As Senator Velguth, representing the city«s Mayor, said...

News In St. Petersburg at the mouth of the Neva River there lies at moorage the world-famous icebreaker, Krasin. The icebreaker was built in Great Britain in 1917 and named...

News Australasian Hydrographic Society Lydia Taylor, AHS Education Award winner for Academic Year 2004, has reported on her participation in the scientific cruise led by Geoscience Australia in May 2004....

News The Hydrographic Society Benelux (HSB) held a workshop entitled ‘Hydrography and geophysics: close neighbours’ in the Department of Geomechanics, Ghent University, Belgium, on Friday 22nd April 2005. The programme...

News Successful Workshop Hydro-Archaeology The workshop held on the subject of hydrography and archaeology on April 11th was very successful. Underwater archeology is a very popular item. A lot of...

Like the land map on land, one of the most important maps for a water region is the bathymetry chart derived from water-depth data acquired during topographic survey. Survey methodology...

The Portuguese Hydrographic Institute (IHPT) was established in 1960. However it is the successor of the historic hydrography from the 15th century and of the modern age of Portuguese hydrography,...