Tag Archives: hydro
Looking Forward: Dealing with Water
Tragedy, in the form of natural disasters, typically involves the geospatial professions. As an industry we help plan for and react to floods, wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes and other forms of Mother Nature’s will that wreak havoc on life in a particular place. Although often in a different role, we are called upon when manmade disasters...
Q&A: 10 Questions with Hydrographer Helen Stewart
Helen Stewart is a multidisciplinary hydrographer with primary focus and expertise in multibeam sonar data processing, including experience in nautical chart surveying, scientific seabed mapping, pipeline inspection, geophysical survey, subsea survey work with both AUVs and ROVs, and geotechnical survey work. How did you get interested in hydrography. Did a specific event trigger your...
Hydrospatial: The Next Frontier of Hydrography
Staying Fluid The theme for US Hydro 2023 reflects the relevance that our profession and related sciences have in the marine geospatial world. In some circles we are discussing the profile of “the hydrographer of the future” (the Canadian Hydrographic Service is leading a series of workshops on this topic), what they have to learn...
THSOA: New Website and US Hydro 2023
Staying Fluid The Hydrographic Society of America (THSOA) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization committed to promoting education in hydrography, inshore surveying, inland waters surveying, offshore surveying, positioning and mapping/charting, including related earth sciences. We have organized in a National Board, including the president, secretary, treasurer, and four trustees, and our members by geographical regions, in...
Staying Fluid: The Ocean Decade
More than 23 percent of the ocean seabed is now mapped Seabed 2030 is a partnership between the Nippon Foundation and the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) and aims to map the entire planet’s seabed by 2030. To date, the project has mapped around 23.4 percent of the seabed. The latest data was...
New Horizons in 2022
News from The Hydrographic Society of America For those that are not too familiar with this organization, The Hydrographic Society of America Inc., also known as THSOA, is a non-profit professional membership organization, whose main focus is to provide support to its members in the Americas. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to promoting...
