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ICES Marine Chemistry Working Group and Potential for Collaboration

ICES Marine Chemistry Working Group and Potential for Collaboration. Robin Law MCWG Chair 2001-2003 CEFAS Burnham Laboratory, UK. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. Founded in 1902 by 8 North European nations Fisheries focus, both science and management

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ICES Marine Chemistry Working Group and Potential for Collaboration

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  1. ICES Marine Chemistry Working Group and Potential for Collaboration Robin Law MCWG Chair 2001-2003 CEFAS Burnham Laboratory, UK

  2. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea • Founded in 1902 by 8 North European nations • Fisheries focus, both science and management • Strong interest in hydrography • Expanded to include all the North Atlantic Ocean

  3. Environmental studies in ICES • Marine pollution research began in 1966 • MCWG formed in 1969, meeting in Lisbon • Active group, usually 30 - 35 members • 3 subgroups: organics, trace metals, chemical oceanography • 25th meeting in 2003

  4. What do we do ? • Provide advice to eg. OSPAR & HELCOM • Review and recommend methods • Produce overviews on analysis, environmental presence & significance of compounds • Collaborate with other members on research topics

  5. Intercomparison & method improvement • MCWG advises international collaborative monitoring programmes under OSPAR, HELCOM • Important that data are comparable • Long series of IC exercises for trace metals, organochlorines, petroleum hydrocarbons and PAH • Development of guidelines (TIMES) • QUASIMEME conceived within MCWG and has assumed the AQC functions

  6. Recent overviews (MCWG 2001/2) • TCPM & TCPMe, toxaphene, PBDEs, volatile organics • Polyfluorinated compounds, PAH metabolites • Booster biocides (Irgarol 1051, diuron, Sea Nine 211, TCMTB, dichlofluanid, chlorothalonil, TCMS pyridine and copper/zinc pyrithione) • Dioxins and dioxin-like CBs in fish • post-Erika monitoring studies • the use of semi-permeable membrane devices (SPMDs) in monitoring studies • 2003 - diuron and isoproturon

  7. Collaboration within MCWG • Data from 5 laboratories in UK, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands were combined to test a pharmacokinetic model of CB biotransformation • Data originally gathered within laboratories’ own programmes

  8. Brominated flame retardants • Initially PBDEs, now working on HBCD and TBBPA • Also 2 intercomparison exercises

  9. ICES MCWG Berlin 2002

  10. MCWG and AMPS • Both groups will gain from collaboration • Degrees of formality • Joint ICES-JRC working group (as for FAO, IOC, EIFAC) • Links and exchanges between MCWG & AMPS • Representative to attend next meeting of MCWG, describe work of AMPS group and consider then ? • MCWG can provide information from national perspectives, and an overview for the marine area

  11. ICES MCWG Tallinn3 - 7 March 2003

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