Export to Google Earth improved OpenGL graphics new sonar interfaces new SURVEY window and new ADCP logging and processing capabilities are among the new HYPACK software features to be demonstrated at the 2010 HYPACK annual training conference. The event will take place from Monday January 18 through Thursday January 21 at the new Marriott Waterside Hotel and Marina in Tampa Florida. The training will cover all the aspects of single beam and multi-beam hydrographic surveying and dredge management using HYPACK HYSWEEP and DREDGEPACK packages. Read More

CARIS is accepting submissions for papers for its annual International User Group Conference CARIS 2010: Stronger Together People Products Infrastructure. The five-day event will be held from March 22 through 25 2010 in Miami Florida. Read More

The American Association of Port Authorities presented the 2009 Facilities Engineering Award of Excellence to the Port Hueneme California Confined Aquatic Disposal (CAD) site.Anchor QEA provided environmental review permitting support design construction document development and construction support for the Southern California CAD facility and Manson Construction Company was the contractor. Read More

IHC Merwede held a naming and launch ceremony for the 12000 cubic meter hopper dredge Gateway on September 26. The event took place at the companys yard in Hardinxveld-Giessendam the Netherlands. Read More

The Western Dredging Association (WEDA) and the Texas A&M Center for Dredging Studies honored Larry Patella with two separate awards in June. Both awards were given in the course of the WEDA 29th annual meeting and Texas A&M 40th Dredging Seminar in Tempe Arizona. Read More

On August 29 Manson Construction Company christened the EP Paup at the companys Houma Louisiana yard. The new vessel is a 1000-ton derrick barge that will serve the Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Industry. Read More

The Western Dredging Association 29th Annual Meeting and Texas A&M 40th Dredging Seminar were held at the Buttes Resort in Tempe Arizona on June 14 through 17. The theme was The Importance of Dredging and 35 technical presentations on this theme were given. Read More

Ten months after 5.4 million cubic yards of wet fly ash burst an earthen containment pond owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority and spilled into the Emory Clinch and Tennessee Rivers and across 300 acres of land at Kingston Tennessee the cleanup is making good progress and has removed more than 1.5 million of the three million cubic yards of ash from the Emory River. The effort is headed for a target date of having all ash out of the river by April 2010. Read More