Updates in 2003

HELCOM MONAS 6/2003 has amended the following sections of the Manual:

B1.1. Need for Quality Assurance and Analytical Procedures in Marine Monitoring
- Update of standards in chapter B.1.1.
- Corrections in table Part 1: Units
- "Individuals" replaces "Counting units" in mesozooplankton
- m2 replaces m3 in Macrozoobenthos counting units.
B.2.1. General
- Update of standards
B.3. Specifying analytical requirements
- Editorial deletion.
B.5.3. For biological measurements
- Completely revised document
B.7. Definitions
- Amendment in biological variables
Annex B-2. Validation of an established analytical method for chemistry
- Revised version
Annex B-7. Units and Conversion
- Part 2: Conversions: corrected factors for oxygen
Annex C-8. Soft bottom macrozoobenthos
- Small editorial amendments
Annex B-12, Appendix 3
- New document
Annex B-13, Appendix 1 and Appendix 2
- New documents
Annex C-4. Phytoplankton chlorophyll a
- Editorial changes in chapter 3
- Extraction time in room temperature in chapter 10
- Editorial change in the equation in chapter 13.1. (symbol of the length of the cuvette changed to l)

Earlier in 2003, Germany and Sweden have updated their list of sampling stations.

The list of all sampling stations is converted as a MS Excel file. The data can be filtered by country and seen on the map.The number format of latitude and longitude has been changed and is:DD MM dd (degree, minute, decimal of minute, e.g. 59 17 78 = 59°17,78')

Link to the file

In case you have found mistakes or have other comments, please contact the Secretariat, preferably the Professional Secretary, Maria Laamanen.