Co-Convenors: James
Christian (Canada) and Tsuneo Ono (Japan)
The importance of Strickland and Parsons' A
Practical Handbook of Seawater Analysis to the development of oceanographic
science is difficult to overstate. The first version of the book, A
Manual of Sea Water Analysis, was published by the Fisheries Research
Board of Canada in 1960. Half a century on, we are in a position to
examine the role that this manual and its descendants have played in
the development of biological and chemical oceanography. This session
invites papers on the role that the development and standardization
of analytical methods has played in the evolution of oceanography, and
the evolution of our understanding of planktonic ecosystems that methodological
innovation has catalyzed.