On September 30 the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners approved the San Pedro Waterfront Project. The 400-acre waterfront infrastructure and revitalization initiative will extend from the Ports inner harbor cruise facilities to Cabrillo Beach in the outer harbor. Included in the plans are the creation of three new small harbors for visiting and commercial boats along the waterfront requiring 605000 cubic yards of dredging. Read More

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

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

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

Weeks Marine Inc. Covington Louisiana was awarded on Oct. 26 2009 a $61810000 firm-fixed-price contract for dredging approximately 6.8 miles of navigation channel and the design and construction of five… Read More

The National Science Foundation has named Texas A&M University as the only new member of the NSF’s annual list of the Top 20 Academic Research Performers in the United States. Read More

The community of American maritime carriers and operating unions in Washington DC has raised $15000 to help build specially adapted homes for American veterans with serious disabilities and injuries. These… Read More

Hemisphere GPS introduced the new A220 and A221 smart antennas at the ION GNSS 2009 Conference in Savannah Georgia in September. The antennas deliver centimeter-level positioning accuracy for precise guidance machine control and survey applications. Read More

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