EuroGO-SHIP Blog - When Seawater is as Valuable as Gold: The Alchemy of Certified Reference Materials for Seawater Analysis

For the past two years in EuroGO-SHIP, I have participated in different activities towards improving services for ship-based hydrographers sampling the open and coastal ocean within the observation system in Europe. I have focused on improving the quality of data, especially when gathering data from different research cruises, and from different sources, such as labs and/or data that comes from different types of sensors measuring the same variable.