Are you interested in the hydrographic industry?  Want to learn more about the industry and career opportunities?

Background

Currently women qualified in hydrography represent 25% of the demographics (International Hydrographic Organisation, 2024).  This initiative has been designed as a way to address this gender inbalance in NZ and to encourage younger women to choose hydrography as a career path.

About the experience

Successful applicants will have the opportunity to do work experience with participating organisations in the programme.  In previous iterations this has involved 2 week placements at 3 different organisations.  This year there are currently 3 organisations providing paid work experience with further opportunities possible at other organisations).  Paid work experience involves flights to each organisation with accommodation provided.  As a society with aims to raise the profile hydrography the Australasian Hydrographic Society NZ Branch are coordinating and sponsoring this years programme. 

Ideally candidates shall:

• Have an interest in hydrography.  Preference will be given to students at the early stages of their studies so that the experience may inform study direction.
• Have completed or plan to undertake hydrographic papers during their studies
• Comply with all health and safety requirements of the organisations they work for
• Be based in New Zealand

To apply send a CV and cover letter to Belen.JimenezBaron@niwa.co.nz

Applications close 5^th May 2024with successful applicants notified by mid May 2024.

Before the S+SNZ conference in Dunedin this year, a day of workshops including a hydrography seminar were hosted at Te Kura Kairūri, the School of Surveying. The annual World Hydrography Day Seminar is supported by the New Zealand Region (NZR) of the Australasian Hydrographic Society (AHS) in conjunction with the S+SNZ Hydrography

Professional Stream (HPS). This year we hosted more than 40 attendees including eight students, who were sponsored to attend, and present or to report back here with a summary of the day. 

-- Credit to Survey and Spatial New Zealand

Read the S+S December SUMMER EDITION / AHS Seminar

After the AHS AGM, there was an awards presentation to recognise a multitude of achievements. This year there were two recipients of the Australasian Hydrographic Society Annual Education Award of $3,500 AUD: Katie Hughes from Victoria University/University of Otago for her research on the lake tsunamis and the use of hydrographic techniques for analysing these. The other recipient was Emily Harrex from the University of Otago for her research project, which addresses diversity withing the hydrography field. There were two AHS Order of Merit awards received by Gary Chrisholm (>20yrs work for the AHS) and Kevin Smith (previous past NZR Chair and AHS Awards Chair) for their service to the industry. Bevan Waller from DML was presented with his AHSCP Certified Professional Hydrographic Surveyor Level 1 certificate. DML also introduced their inaugural Hydrographic Surveying Scholarship and awarded this to Ryan Slattery from the University of Otago. Ryan plans to undertake an honours project focusing on research around low-cost GNSS tide-buoys in 2024. It was great to see the range of award presentations; from career-long recognition to students starting out. Mīharo!

Photo: Award recipients:  Kevin Smith (AHS Service Award), Emily Harrex (AHS Education Award), Bevan Waller (AHSCP Level 1 certification), Gary Chisholm (AHS Service Award), Ryan Slattery (Inaugural DML Student Scholarship), Katie Hughes (AHS Education Award) (Photo: S. Clayton)

The AMT 2023 conference aims to showcase the rapid advances in the AMT field along with demonstrating real world and future potential applications of the different technologies within our marine environment.

This long running and well reputed conference continues to be one of the most globally important knowledge centre's and networking opportunities in this field, allowing contact between defence, industry and research specialists.

Combined with the conference sessions will be an AMT exhibition, providing the attendees with a chance to further explore the latest AMT technologies. The conference will also include multiple networking opportunities to connect with AMT industry experts.

For more information please contact SUT Perth branch.

Contact SUT Perth Branch

Following the success of the 2021 and 2022 deliveries of the IBSC Recognised S-5B Hydrographic Surveyor and S-8B Nautical Cartographers Programs, IIC Academy is pleased to announce that enrolments are now open for the 2023-24 deliveries of these Programs.

The S-5B Hydrographic Surveyors Program will commence in Sep 23. This course comprises 13 weeks of online self-paced and instructor led Theory that can be completed over a 23-week period, followed by a 7 weel Practical in Australia commencing May 2024. The delivery of this Program is designed to allow maximum flexibility for students and employers, reduced costs and minimum time away from your home or workplace. 

The S-8B Nautical Cartographers Program will be delivered as a 22-week Global Delivery commencing September 2023. This Programme provides students with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge and skills required to undertake Nautical Chart production.

If you are interested in attending or wish to obtain more information on either of these Programs for yourself, a colleague or friend please drop us a line at takhou.law@iictechnologies.com or hydrographicsurveyor@iicacademy.com.

Further details on the Programs can also be found at: http://www.iicacademy.com/

Tune in from 1100 - 1245 AEST on the last Thursday of each month.

Date	Description	Registration Link
Jun 25	National to International perspectives on seabed mapping	Register
Jul 30	Mapping for management in the Anthropocene	Register
Aug 27	Data sharing and collaboration	Register
Sep 24	Cross sector talks on the applications of seabed mapping	Register

This Webinar which was delivered by Dr Joshu Mountjoy, who is a NIWA Scientist / Marine Geologist - Ocean Geology was focused on Survey technologies used to find the aquifer offshore south Canterbury. In this Webinar, Joshu ​has explained the offshore survey campaign to find and map the aquifer.

This is a unique survey as our AHS members are usually involved in surveys for oil/gas/wind farms or dredging/aggregates.

This Webinar was delivered on 14 May 2020 13:00 - 13:30 (UTC+12:00).

The recording are now available through link below.

HYDRO SOC Webinar #9 (2020-05-13 at 18:03 GMT-7)

This well attended webinar was Cory Brooks (Unique Group) on remote control boat surveying under structures and the ixBlue ASV. This was followed by Emily Tidey (Hydrographic lecturer - Otago Uni) talking on surveying / geology on a NZ sub antarctic island.

Click here for the recording (the first 10 minutes of the webinar is missing sorry): link

Last year a research team of staff and students at the University of Otago's School of Surveying sought the views of hydrographers to use in an investigation considering the development of the profession in New Zealand as part of a larger project titled: Tuia: 250 years of navigation, map making and belonging. Tuia 250 commemorated the first meetings of Māori and European at the time of Captain Cook's first visit to New Zealand in 1769.

We are so grateful for all the thoughtful and detailed responses we received, which totalled over 50 (we had thought >20 would be a good result!), and thank you and your colleagues for your valuable contributions.

In 2019, as we worked on the fantastic questionnaire input you gave us, we shared interim findings with audiences at the Survey+Spatial NZ (formerly NZIS) conference, the NZR AHS seminar, at a School of Surveying seminar, with students from Te Tumu (School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies) at Otago University and at the NZ Coastal Society conference.

The final results of our investigations have now been published in  the article 'Cook: Our Professional Ancestor' in the recent Special Edition of New Zealand Surveyor. We also have another publication in this edition discussing the evolution of hydrographic technology and charting:

1) Cook: Our Professional Ancestor [page 79]

2) Charting Our History [page 131]

To read these, New Zealand Surveyor Special Edition (Dec 2019, no. 305) can be downloaded at:

https://www.surveyspatialnz.org/members/Publications/Attachment?Action=Download&Attachment_id=5873 [direct to the Special Edition]

https://www.surveyspatialnz.org/members/Publications/nz_surveyor_journal [to all online versions of this journal]

We encourage you to share our articles widely with the hydrographic community – we hope they will be especially interesting to those who responded so positively to our questionnaire.

We also wish to acknowledge the support of:

1) The Australasian Hydrographic Society (AHS) who funded our students. This enabled the running of online survey, gave our students a day on the water using multibeam, enabled our students to present their work at the S+SNZ conference and will facilitate the proper presentation of the charts donated in 2) below.

2) Ron Tyson (of NZ Ocean Technologies Ltd) for his generous donation of three 1700's charts which formed the focal points for our second published article.

If you have any queries about the research please contact Emily Tidey on emily.tidey@otago.ac.nz

On 27 August, the Australia-New Zealand Emergency Management Committee (ANZEMC) endorsed the National Framework for Flood Warning Infrastructure and the Flood Warning Infrastructure Standard developed by the National Flood Warning Infrastructure Working Group (the Working Group). The Framework provides guidance for future flood warning infrastructure planning and investment, based on jurisdictional analyses of their flood warning infrastructure. The Standard presents non-mandatory industry-recommended performance requirements for the design, development and monitoring of fit-for-purpose flood warning infrastructure. These initiatives will guide future flood warning infrastructure investments in an integrated and cost-efficient manner, to enhance flood warnings to the community. This marks the successful conclusion of the time-limited Working Group and is testimony to the collaborative nature of the Working Group and the hard work of all involved.

Following Munro (2011) recommendations, ANZEMC established a Bureau of Meteorology Hazards Services Taskforce (the Taskforce) in October 2013. The Taskforce reported to ANZEMC in May 2015 and recommended the formation of the Working Group. The Working Group was established in 2016 to address the limitations and inconsistencies of flood infrastructure and standards across Australia. The Working Group involved extensive collaboration and inter-agency cooperation to standardise national flood warning services and infrastructure; an ambitious undertaking given the wide variety of climates, jurisdictions, and agencies involved. The Working Group was a time-limited project, working to deliver a Flood Warning Infrastructure Standard, Infrastructure reports for each jurisdiction, and a National Framework for Flood Warning Infrastructure by 2019. The Working Group produced these deliverables within the specified timeframe.

Chairs of the ANZEMC

Collaboration was key to the success of the Working Group. In accordance with the Total Flood Warning System, flood warnings in Australia are provided via a partnership involving all levels of government: Commonwealth, State, Territory and local. While the Bureau of Meteorology has the responsibility for the provision of forecasting and warning services for riverine flooding in all states and territories (with limited exceptions), the prime responsibility for flash flood warnings lies with states and territories in partnership with local government. However, the Bureau provides forecasts and warnings for severe weather conditions and potential heavy rainfall conducive to flash flooding. Given the already inter-dependent nature of these relationships, the Working Group demonstrated the significance of a cooperative spirit to improve the preparedness and safety of the community.

Consultation: Flood Warning Infrastructure Standard