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IHB BULLETIN - NEWSLETTER 2004

CUMULATIVE  ANNUAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

• New Hydrographer of NOAA
  From September 2003.
  
  

•   Visit by HSH Prince Albert of Monaco to Chile.
  26 November 2003. 
  
  

• The US National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) becomes
  the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
  13 December 2003.
   
  

• Visit to London, UK, by Captain H. Gorziglia
  13-15 January 2004.  
  
  

• New Publications :  "IHO Data Protection Scheme" (S-63, Ed. 1.0) and
  "ECDIS Tests Data Sets" (S-64, Ed. 1.0)
  
  

• Sea Level Training Course - Sea Level Changes; Observation, 
  Interpretation, Application.
  West Indies University, 5-16 July 2004.
  

FEBRUARY

• The United Nations General Assembly adopts Resolution welcoming 
  the work of IHO
  23 December 2003.  
  
  

• New Hydrographer of the "Servicio Hidrográfico y Oceanográfico de
  la Armada de Chile" (SHOA)
  From 26 January 2004.  
  
  

• 48th Nordic Hydrographic Commission Meeting
  2-4 February 2004, Helsinki, Finland.
  
  

• Report of the Meeting of RAMOGE-POL Working Group
  BHI, Monaco, 4 February 2004.   
  

• 5th Meeting of the IHO Strategic Planning Working Group
  Tokyo, Japan, 1-4 March 2004.  
  
  

• Technical Visits to Vietnam, Thailand and Brunei Darussalam
  13-24 March 2004.
  
  

• S-63 Extended Workshop
  Hamburg, Germany, 18-19 March 2004.
  
  

• 4th Meeting of the North Indian Ocean Hydrographic Commission
  Mumbai, India, 24-25 March 2004.   
  
  

• HYDROIND-2004
  Mumbai, India, 26-27 March 2004.
  
  

• S-51: Technical Aspects of the Law of the Sea (TALOS) Manual
  IHB, Monaco, 29-30 March 2004.
  
  

• XXth JOINT-IOC GEBCO Guiding Committee Meeting
  La Spezia, Italy, 1-6 April 2004.
  
  

• Visit to IHB by Australia's Ambassador to France
  2 April 2004.
  
  

• 4th Session of the IOC Editorial Board for the International Bathymetric
  Chart of the Western Pacific
  Hangzhou, China, 20-23 April 2004.
  
  

• VIIth Meeting of the Black Sea Working Group for the Safety of the Navigation
  22-23 April, Kiev, Ukraine.

 MAY

• IHO Represented at the IAATO Conference
  Christchurch, New Zealand, 29-30 April 2004.  
  
  

• News from FIG Commission 4 "Hydrography"
  May 2004.
  
  

• IHB Document Management System Project
  May 2004.
  
  

• Technical Coordination Meeting beetwen IMA and IHB
  Trieste, Italy, 4 May 2004.   
  
  

• Editing Committee Meeting - ISO TC211 Standard
  IHB, Monaco, 5-7 May 2004.
  
  

• XXVIIth Meeting of the FIG/ IHO/ ICA International Advisory Board of Standards of Competence for Hydrographic Surveyors and Nautical Cartographers
  Johror Baru, Malaysia, 4-9 May 2004.
  
  

• Visit to I.H. Bureau by a Group of Students from the Genoa University
  10 May 2004.
  
  

• New Hydrographer of Japan.
  
  

• New Hydrographer of Peru
  
  

• Geomatica 2004
  Havana, Cuba, 10-14 May 2004.  
  
  

• 78th Session of the IMO Maritime Safety Committee (MSC)
  IMO Headquarters, London, 12-21 May 2004.
  
  

• "The Olympic Spirit in Surveying" - International Federation of 
  Surveyors (FIG) Working Week 2004
  Athens, Greece, 22-27 May 2004.
  
  

• XXVIIth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM)
  Cape Town, South Africa, 24 May - 04 June 2004.   
  
   

• New Hydrographer of Mexico
  Since February 2004.
  
  

• Hydrographic Education in North America
  Ottawa, Canada, 25 May 2004.
  
  

• Canadian Hydrographic Conference (CHC 2004)
  Ottawa, Canada, 25-27 May 2004.
  
  

• 27th Meeting of US-Canada Hydrographic Commission
  Ottawa, Canada, 27 May 2004.
  
  

• 16th CHRIS Meeting
  Ottawa, Canada, 28-31 May 2004.
  
  

• Visit to the IHB by Ambassador Suh Dae-Won, Ministry of
  Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT), Republic of Korea
  Monaco, 7 June 2004.
  
  

• IHO Participation at the 125th Anniversary of the "Servicio de
  Hidrografía Naval de la Armada de la República Argentina"
  Buenos Aires, 7-8 June 2004.
  
  

• Information of interest concerning Cameroon
  
  

• Standardisation of Nautical Publications Working Group (SNPWG) Meeting
  Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, 7-9 June 2004.
  
  

• 54th Session of the Technical Cooperation Committee of IMO (TC 54)
  London, UK, 15-17 June 2004.
  
  

• NATO Geographic Conference 2004
  NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium, 21-24 June 2004.
  
  

• IHO Data Protection Scheme Working Group (DSPWG) Meeting
  IHB, Monaco, 22-23 June 2004.
   

• IEC TC80 WG10 Meeting at the International Hydrographic Bureau
  Monaco, 23-25 June 2004.
  
  

• Symposium : "New Space Services for Maritime Users: The Impact of Satellite Technology on Maritime Legislation".
  Paris, France, 21-23 February 2005.
  

• New Chief Hydrographer to the Government of India.
  From July 2004 on.
  
  

• New Hydrographer of the US Navy.
  From July 2004 on.
  
  

• 50th Meeting of the Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation of the
  International Maritime Organization.
  IMO Headquarters, London, 5-9 July 2004.
  
  

• "Beyond Safety of Navigation" Multibeam and Visualization Workshop.
  Mississippi, USA, 26-29 July 2004.
   

• International Bathymetric  Chart of the Southern Ocean (IBCSO) -
  Inaugural Meeting.
  Bremen, Germany, 30 July 2004.

• 6th Meeting of the Meso American and Caribbean Sea Regional Hydrographic Commission (MACHC).
  Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 30 August - 2 September 2004.
  
  

• 4th Meeting of the Hydrographic Committee on Antarctica (HCA).
  Island of Kythnos, Greece, 6-8 September 2004.
  
  
  

• 26th Meeting of the North Sea Hydrographic Commission (NSHC).
  Cardiff, Wales, 21-23 September 2004.
  
  

• IHO Presentation to NATO Geographic Officers Course.
  Obergammau, Germany, 22 September 2004.
  
  

• VIth Tidal Committee Meeting.
  Lisboa, Portugal, 11-13 October 2004.
  
  

• IC-ENC / PRIMAR-Stavanger, Regional Coordinating Centres -
  3rd Joint Technical Expert Working Group Meeting.
  Stavanger, Norway, 6-7 October 2004.
  

• 11th Meeting of the Joint IHO-IAG-IOC Advisory Board on the Law of the Sea.
  Canberra, Australia, 18-20 October 2004.
  
  

• 4th IMA Technical & Scientific Committee Meeting.
  Trieste, Italy, 20 October 2004.
  
  

• EAtHC Technical Workshop.
  Brest, France, 26-27 October 2004.
  
  

• 2nd Meeting of the "S63X"  Working Group.
  BHI, Monaco,  26-27 October 2004.
  
  

• 8th Meeting of the Eastern Atlantic Hydrographic Commission (EAtHC)
  Brest, France, 28-29 October 2004.
  
  

• 1st CSPWG Meeting
  Monaco, 3-5 November 2004.
  
  

• 6th Meeting of the South West Pacific Hydrographic Commission (SWPHC)
  Suva, Fiji, 8-9 November 2004.
  
  

• 2nd Meeting of the IHO Capacity Building Committee (CBC)
  Suva, Fiji, 11-12 November 2004.
  
  

• TSMAD 11 and S-57 Extensions Sub-Working Group Meetings
  IHB, Monaco, 11-12 and 8-10 November 2004 respectively.
  
  

• News concerning the Colombian Hydrographer.
  

• FIG/IHO Technical Meeting held at the IHB
  26 November 2004.
  
  

• The Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) of the International Maritime
  Organization.
  IMO Headquarters, London, 1-10 December 2004.
  
  

• WEND Task Group.
  Hamburg, Germany, 8-9 December 2004.
  
  

• Western Indian Ocean Marine Highway Development and Coastal and
  Marine Contamination Prevention Project Seminar.
  Cape Town, Southafrica, 13-14 December 2004.