CIVIL HYDROGRAPHY ANNUAL SEMINAR 2010

Thursday 4 February 2010, ABP Ocean Terminal, Dock Gate 4, Southampton, 10:00am

Introduction

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) held its annual Civil Hydrography Annual Seminar (formally the Committee on Shipping Hydrography (COSH) seminar) at the ABP Ocean Terminal, Dock Gate 4, Southampton on 4 February 2010.

This Civil Hydrography Annual Seminar (CHAS) provided an excellent opportunity for all attendees to find out about areas of the seabed which will be surveyed by a number of government organisations in the forthcoming years.

CHAS (formally COSH) was initially established in 1976 and has been the forum through which the MCA meets with its stakeholders to ensure proper consultation in the Agency’s management of the Civil Hydrography Programme (CHP). The CHP has a multi-million pound budget to systematically survey the waters around the U.K. Commercial contracts are let regularly to ensure accurate hydrographic information is gathered for updating the nation's nautical charts and publications.

With the advent of multibeam echosounders and the consequential step-change in the usefulness of bathymetric data, a number of Government organisations are now surveying for reasons other than safety of navigation. The MCA were not slow to realise that this increase in survey effort could be capitalised upon by improving the integration of hydrographic survey data-gathering programmes. As a result, the MCA sought to expand the effectiveness of these seminars and in this, the first iteration of CHAS, over 80 attendees were present – a 4 fold increase in as many years on the original 20 or so members.

Seminar Papers
(please click on links to access .pdf versions of papers and presentations)

Programme  pdf 34kb UPDATE LINK
Attendees List pdf 38.6kb UPDATE LINK

Presentations from Seminar
(Please note that due to file size restrictions, the presentations are optimized for web viewing)

Introductions

10:00 Welcome and Introduction  .pdf 112kb
by Peter Cardy (Chief Executive, Maritime and Coastguard Agency)

10:10 Keynote Speech
by Mark Horton (University of Bristol and BBC Presenter from ‘Coast’)

Session 1: The Civil Hydrography Programme 2009-10

10:25 Civil Hydrography Programme management for 2009-2010  .pdf 412kb
by Rob Spillard (Hydrography Manager, Maritime and Coastguard Agency)

10:45 Survey Results 2009-2010 (Routine Resurvey Programme)
by Ola Oskarsson / Martin Wikmar (Managing Director / Programme Manager, Marin Matteknik)

10:55 Survey Results 2009-2010 (Anglian Sovereign)
by Duncan Mallice (Managing Director, NetSurvey)

11:05 Survey Results 2009-2010 (Medium Water Contract)  .pdf 374kb
by Cliff Whatrup / Dave Mann (Project Manager / Survey Support Manager, Gardline GeoSurvey Ltd)

11:20 Survey Results 2009-2010 (Shallow Water Contract)  .pdf 501kb
by Rob Spillard (Hydrography Manager, Maritime and Coastguard Agency)

Session 2: The Civil Hydrography Programme 2010-11

11:40 Proposed Programme for 2010-2011
by David Parker (Civil Hydrography Manager, UK Hydrographic Office)

Session 3: Good Practice

13:20 The Financial Benefits of Hydrographic Surveying  .pdf 630kb
by Michael Cain (Anatec)

13:40 A New Large-scale Bathymetry Model for the UKCS  .pdf 566kb
by Mike Osborne (Seazone Bathymetry Modelling)

Session 4: Other Data Gathering Programmes

14:10 British Geological Survey Data Gathering Update
by Bob Gatliff (Head of Science, British Geological Survey)

14:25 Update on the MBES survey work undertaken by Marine Scotland Science in the Pentland Firth 2009
by Peter Hayes (Offshore Energy Environmental Manager, Marine Scotland)

14:40 Nearshore Bathymetric Surveys by the Strategic Regional Coastal monitoring Programmes of England
by Dr Travis Mason (Channel Coastal Observatory, National Oceanography Centre)

14:55 Natural England Marine Programme  .pdf 990kb
by Chris Pirie (Senior Specialist – Marine Monitoring, Natural England)

15:30 Countryside Council for Wales: Data Gathering Programme
by Peter Walker (Marine Scientist, Marine and Freshwater Sciences)

15:45 Cefas: Defras Survey Needs for Marine Policy  .pdf 52kb
by Christian Wilson (Senior Habitat Mapper, Cefas)

15:50 Cefas: Cefas Surveys and Integration
by David Limpenny (Group Manager for Monitoring and Programme Management, Cefas)

Unfortunately due to the size of the presentations we have had to convert them into PDF format. Because of this it means that any multimedia contained within the presentations will not be shown.

If you are unable to view the PDF links or wish to obtain a higher resolution copy of any of the CHAS Presentations from the seminar, please do not hesitate to contact me using the details below.

Richard Dean - Hydrography Specialist Support

Tel: 02380 329145

Fax: 02380 329204

E-Mail: richard.dean@mcga.gov.uk