Sampling Educational Tools

The PMEL carbon group is working with the international scientific community through the International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP) to improve the quality of ocean carbon measurements.

One way we have working to improve quality has been by helping to develop guides to best practices:

• Guide to Best Practices for Oceanic CO₂ Measurements - A.G. Dickson, C. Sabine, and J. Christian, eds., PICES Series Publication 3, IOCCP Report No. 8, 191 pp.
• GO-SHIP Repeat Hydrography Manual: A Collection of Expert Reports and Guidelines
• Guide to Best Practices for ocean acidification research and data reporting - U. Riebesell, V. J. Fabry, L. Hansson, and J.-P. Gattuso J.-P. (Eds.), 2010, 260 p. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

We also highly recommend the use of Certified Reference Materials (CRM) as a secondary check on data quality when making any inorganic carbon measurements.

For information on the best methods for collecting high-quality inorganic carbon samples, please download the Sampling Protocol document.