Book Description

This book contains full working instructions of certain procedures for seawater analysis that have been found to be reliable and to have adequate sensitivity & precision for most studies of marine ecology. Most of the methods described are for substances that affect or measure organic production in the sea and, in most cases, the methods can be mastered by relatively inexperienced workers in a ship's laboratory. Methods & required equipment are described for analysis of the following: salinity, dissolved oxygen, carbonate, & sulphide; inorganic micronutrients; soluble organic matter; particulate materials; and for photosynthetic rate measurements.