ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html lang="ja"> <head> <title>2010 Study Group on Nutrients Standards, SGONS, Meeting</title> <font face="Times new roman"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- body { background-attachment: fixed; background-image: url(../images/hammer1.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center top} --> </style> </head> <body> <body bgcolor=""> <style type="text/css"><!--A { text-decoration: none; }--></style> <STYLE type="text/css"><!--BODY{font-size :15pt;}--></STYLE> <center> <center><font size="5"><font face="Arial Black,Helvetica Black"><b>Meeting Dates</b><br> <font size="6"><br><font color="#0066FF10"><b>23 March  24 March ,2010 </b></font></center><br> </font></font face> Please click <a href="AD_2010_SGONS_leaflet_091124_ad djh.pdf" target="brank"><u>here</u></a> to download the workshop leaflet. <br><br><br><br> <table border="0" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" width="800" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0"> <td> </td> </table> <br> <left><font size="5"><font face="Arial Black,Helvetica Black"> <b>Terms of References of SGONS</b> </font></font></center><br><br> <font size="4"> <ol type="i"> <li><p> Develop and establish reference materials for nutrients in seawater (RMNS) collaborating with producers of currently available RMNS. Primary determinands are nitrate, nitrite, phosphate and silicate </li></p> <li><p> Collaborate with and encourage the National Metrology Institute of Japan to complete certification of RMNS for nitrate, nitrite, phosphate and silicate </li></p> <li><p> Develop new sampling and measurement protocols using the RMNS </li></p> <li><p> Carry out an international collaboration exercise to verify the stability of the reference materials and test the proficiency of the new protocols </li></p> <li><p> Complete a revised nutrients analysis manual </li></p> <li><p> Distribute 10,000 bottles of reference material for nutrients to laboratories measuring nutrients as part of the CLIVAR Repeat Hydrography Programme to construct a global nutrient dataset referenced to the new RMNS </li></p> <li><p> Promote the use of RMNS to aim for global acceptance in order to enable reliable comparability between global nutrient data sets, and to investigate the feasibility of expanding RMNS to include ammonium and dissolved organic matter </li></p> <li><p> Collaborate with the ocean science community that uses chemical reference materials, including carbonate system reference material for dissolved inorganic carbon, total alkalinity and pH, and dissolved oxygen in seawater. </li> </li></p> <br><br><br><br><br> </left> <font size="2"> <table border="0" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" width="700" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0"> <td> </td> </table> Note on COPYRIGHT: Permission to use any scientific material (text as well as figures) in this homepage of<br> the Geochemical Res. Dep. / MRI should be obtained from the authors.</p> </font> <br> Latest update on 22 April, 2010<br> <a href="../ge.html" target="_brank"><font color="#FF9999">Geochem.-Home Page </a> </td> </body> </html>