NMBAQC

The National Marine Biological Analytical Quality Control Scheme
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Macroalgae

Contract Manager:  Clare Scanlan, SEPA

Component Administrator (2006 - 2008): Emma Wells, Wells Marine

Rocky Shore Macroalgae Ring Test

This module examines the inter-laboratory variation in participants ability to identify rocky shore macroalgae.  These ring-test's involve participants identifying rocky shore macroalgal specimens from a CD of images which provide microscopic and macroscopic views for each specimen.  The species focused on in each ring test are a mixture of common and more rare species found on the UK's rocky shores.