1. Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research (RIVO)
MonitoringBase
Pim Leonards
Michiel Kotterman
Heather Leslie
Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research (RIVO)

2. Outline Background and objectives Database: MonitoringBase
Monitoring programmes
Measured environmental concentrations
Accessibility of data
Concluding remarks
How to get MonitoringBase

3. www.cefic.be LRI section
Background
LRI: Long-range Research Initiative of the Chemical Industry
LRI section
Multi-year funding programme to develop science and tools to improve environmental and human health assessment

4. Objectives Monitoring Project
Improve knowledge of:
existing monitoring programmes
measured data (selected chemicals)
To suppport other LRI projects
….and to stimulate data availability
Costs about Euro
About 1.5 yr, between early 2003 and end 2004

5. MonitoringBase

6. Monitoring programmes
Type
Monitoring (routine)
Survey
Screening
Limited to:
European and Arctic region
Aquatic environment: freshwater, estuarine or marine
Matrices: water, sediment, suspended matter, biota
Information, references and links to more than 160 planned, on-going and completed studies

7. Monitoring Programmes - Parameters
Title
Organising country
Programme summary
Status (ongoing, completed)
Type (monitoring, survey, screening)
Start/end year
Website and databank links
Contact details
Compound
Matrix
Frequency

8. Monitoring Programmes - Geography1
no.
monitoring/survey
programmes 3 11
1-5 13
6-10
11-20
>20 1 5

9. Monitoring programmes – search screen

10. Measured concentrations
Selection based on:
EU Water Framework Directive List of Priority Substances, except metals
Spatial distribution
Temporal trends
Accumulation in food chains
Additional substances chosen based on wide range of physical-chemical properties and biodegradability
Not comprehensive

11. Measured concentrations - Parameters
Title
Environment
Country/Sea
Region
Matrix
Species
Tissue
Year of sampling
Substance
Concentration
Additional parameters
Lipid weight, dry weight, length, weight, etc.

12. Measured concentrations - content
More than 5000 measured concentration data
112 organic chemicals
On-line databases included after evaluation of websites

13. Concluding remarks
Large differences in quality and accessibility of websites to retrieve data - Accessibility could be improved by including English version
Many monitoring programmes measure same restricted set of chemicals in similar matrices
Creation of a meta-database could be a tool for information sharing on chemical monitoring between different countries in Europe, but harmonisation of the presentation of monitoring programmes in Europe is probably more realistic and easier to achieve

14. How to get MonitoringBase
Download instructions:
CD ROM:
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