AHS Award Scheme

It is now time to consider nominations for those who have contributed to our industry. In particular, be a little more adventurous and consider appropriate nominations in the corporate or even literary categories. As you will be aware, it is a right of membership that only AHS members can endorse nominations. There are to be two levels of awards, the Australasian Society awards and the NZ-EA-WA Regional awards.

The first awards under this scheme were made at HYDRO 2003 in Christchurch and it is intended that awards since 2014 will be made annually at World Hydrography Day celebration events.

AHS is by definition a learned organization with a membership that now covers a broad spectrum of all those involved or having an expressed interest in hydrography and related sciences. As such, the consensus of the membership is that there is probably no better group involved with hydrographic pursuits to better judge all of the various contributions across the industry.
The key dates for award nominations for 2021 are:

1. Final date for submission of Awards nominations 30 April 2021.
   
2. Deliberation of Awards by Board of Selectors will be completed by 15 May 2021.
   
3. Selection forwarded to the AHS Council for Endorsement 22 May 2021.
   
4. Awardees notified by the AHS President around 28 May 2021.
   
5. Awards Presented at World Hydrography Day functions on 21 June 2021 and/or the AGM.
   

Awards may be made under the following categories of achievement:

Career, Scientific & Technological, Industry, Corporate, Environmental, Maritime Safety, Information Management, Literary & Media, Exhibition and Service (to the Australasian Hydrographic Society).
The Education Award Scheme while part of the overall awards procedure is separately funded and administrated.

History of AHS Awards Honour Board

The AHS Awards Scheme seeks to promote the values and ideals of the organisation and to give fair and equitable recognition to those individuals and organisations and companies that have by their actions contributed to promoting these values in numerous fields of endeavour; it is inclusive of all elements of the hydrographic community although predominantly focused on AHS members.