Serves the authorities, the private sector and the public – both national and international

Norway’s leading multidisciplinary research institute in the field of use and protection of water bodies

and water quality

Experience from more than 70 countries

NIVA-projects

• Each year NIVA accomplishes ca. 700 projects for the authorities, the private sector, The Research Council of Norway and the European Commision

• Projects are carried out according to ISO 9001

• Accredited chemical analyses

Research fields• Eutrophication• Integrated Water Resources Management• Contaminants• Fish Ecology and Aquaculture • Ecology and Biodiversity• Water Treatment and Monitoring Technology• Climate Change – effects, remedial actions

and adaptation• Acid rain and Liming• Innovation• Analytical Chemistry• International projects

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Pierre Jaccard

• BSc in Electronics• MSc in Physics• Instrumentation:

– field, development, design

• Offshore, Mining Industry, Community, CSS, Climate, Aquaculture, Ocean Optics, Chemistry, Biology

• Ferryboxes, Satellite• Currents (ADCP), Temperature, Salinity, Turbidity,

Fluorescence, Radiance, CO2, pH

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Topics

• What are Ferryboxes?• Ferrybox data management within

MyOcean• About Chl-a Measurements• RTQC of in-situ data in MyOcean• Howto get Ferrybox data from

MyOcean

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Acknowledgements(not in order)

• Kai Sørensen, NIVA• Marit Norli, NIVA• Are Folkestad, Rolls Royce• Anna Birgitta Ledang, NIVA• Dag Hjermann, NIVA• Birger Bjerkeng, NIVA• Laurent Bertino, NERSC

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