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NOTIFICATION

Dear participants of the annual IPI (International Phytoplankton Intercomparison) exercise in abundance and composition of marine microalgae.

 

This note is to confirm that due to the ongoing global SARS-COVID-19 pandemic, the IPI organising committee in consultation with our Advisory group and partners have decided to cancel the IPI exercise for 2020 and to continue with the proficiency testing scheme from 2021 onwards.

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This website has been developed to provide a structured and user-friendly single point source of information relating to the International Phytoplankton Intercomparison (IPI).

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Proficiency testing on abundance and composition of marine microalgae.

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Current Programme

Please find the schedule to this years’ intercomparison exercise 2019.

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All our work is carried out following and to the technical and managerial standard requirements for PT schemes (ISO17043) and the data is statistically analysed using the statistical methods as laid out in ISO13528 ‘Statistical methods for use in PT by interlaboratory comparisons’. We use the statistical database software ProLab Plus from QuoData to do the statistical evaluation of the participants’ data.

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