Southern Region

The Southern Region can be contacted at southern@ths.org.uk

The Regional officers are:

Chairman
William Heaps
Hon Secretary
Neil Pittam
Hon Treasurer
Sarah Belcher

Other Committee members are:

Mark Poole
Maik Weidt

The minutes of recent Southern Region AGMs are available to download at the foot of this page

The Southern Region holds regular meetings on the second Wednesday of most months (except July and August), at which a variety of presentations of interest to members are given by guest speakers; we also hold occasional social events. Our meetings are normally held in Southampton on board the historic preserved steam ship SS Shieldhall (http://www.ss-shieldhall.co.uk/), but sometimes events are arranged elsewhere in the Region, according to demand and availability of suitable meeting venues.

SS Shieldhall

The SS Shieldhall

Our meeting venue

Please note SS Shieldhall has now moved to 29 Berth (Dock Gate 4)

Meeting Programme

Meetings scheduled for the next few months are as follows:

8th September 2010: 'Seagrass: Why depth matters' Dr Ken Collins, Senior Research Fellow,School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton

19:30 for 20:00 start

Seagrass has international protection and it is abundant in the Solent. Ken has been working on the Calshot seagrass bed for 3 years and using this data he advised the East Cowes development on likely seagrass impacts which makes an entertaining story. The presentation is more focussed on people's misconceptions than the marine biology.

He will discuss Neil Wells' PhD material on the impact of long-term trends in sea level on seagrass with a Southampton Water case study.

Further meetings are planned for the autumn of 2010 and 2011, details of which will be available on this page, and on the Events listing on this website.

All members of The Hydrographic Society (from any Region) and their guests are welcome to attend our meetings. If you would like to receive email notification of forthcoming events in the Southern Region, send your details to southern@ths.org.uk.

Previous Meetings

27th October 2009: HYDROGRAPHY & MARINE SPATIAL DATA INFRASTUCTURE (SDI): 'Measure Once, Use Many'

This event is now over, but please visit the webpage to download copies of presentations and other useful information.

14th April 2010: 'Unmanned Underwater and Surface Vehicles for Use in Shallow and Coastal Waters' by Paul Newman, Douglas-Westwood Ltd. A version of this presentation which was given to the South West region is available to view on the Downloads page. The actual presentation which Paul gave to our region is available from his company web site at http://www.dw-1.com/files/category.php?catID=14)

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	Southern Region AGM 2008 Minutes of Meeting	30 Kb
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