PSA Workshop March 23

The NMBAQC PSA workshop at Cefas Lowestoft  was held on the 22^nd- 23^rd March 2023. There was a laboratory demonstration of the new Better-sizer laser sizer, as well as a review/update of the NMBAQC PSA guidance to reflect the changing scope of sampling in relation to the mNCEA (marine Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment) programme.

Past workshops

NMBAQC's PSA for Supporting Biological Analysis Workshop Proceedings

NMBAQC's Workshop on 'PSA for Supporting Biological Analysis', February 2009, Cefas, Lowestoft.  Workshop to discuss moving towards a UK wide Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for 'PSA for Supporting Biological Analysis'. Please see the supporting documents and presentations which are referred to in the draft proceedings.

Supporting documents

• NMBAQC PSA Questionnaire Summary Report
• PSA for biological analysis and the Green Book
• Summary of NMBAQCs PSA questionnaire results

Presentations

• NMCAG AQC Approaches, Colin Allchin, Cefas
• PSA and biology, Ken Neal, CMACS
• PSA for habitat mapping, Markus Diesing, Cefas
• Use of PSA data in biological studies, Roger Coggan, Cefas
• Uses of PSA data to inform Biology, Keith Cooper, Cefas
• Data Interpretation and Reporting, Cefas
• Data Interpretation and Reporting, EA
• NMBAQC PSA Workshop
• PSA experiments, NIEA
• PSA Methodology, NIEA
• PSA Methodology, SEPA
• QA QC, Cefas
• QA QC, EA
• Sample Analysis, Cefas
• Sample Analysis, EA
• Sample Analysis, FRS
• Sample Collection, Cefas
• Sample Collection, EA
• Sample Collection, FRS