Scope of the Scientific Programme

IMEKO TC19 Conference

  1. Analytical measurement of the three main environmental media: air, water and soil.
  2. Analytical measurement of drinking water, surface water, groundwater and wastewater, solid and liquid wastes, human plant, animal bodies and organisms, synthetic products and gases.
  3. Instrumental methods for measurement of environmental noise and vibration pollution.
  4. Remote sensing methods for measurement of environmental pollution.
  5. Development and improvement of analytical methods for measuring environmental pollutants.
  6. Development of new analytical methods, sensors and instruments for monitoring air, water and soil quality in residential, industrial and agricultural areas.
  7. Development of new platforms and image processing techniques for detection of potential sources of contamination and monitoring of air, water and soil quality.
  8. Development of Geographic Information Systems to perform spatial and temporal analysis of remote sensing-based and ground-based environmental assessment. Hazard modelling will also be included.
  9. Evaluation and assessment of environmental data, including:
    • Evaluation methods for off-line analytical data and real-time sensor data. Methods for higher level processing.
    • Assessment of Earth processes including erosion, climatic and global changes.
    • Evaluation of methods for real-time remote sensing of data.
  10. Quality assurance and quality control of environmental measurements.
  11. Product oriented environmental policy, ecodesign, life cycle assessment, ecomapping.
  12. Practical tools of environmental measurement.

 

IMEKO TC23 Conference

  1. Role of National Measurement Institutes in strengthening food and nutritional measurements
  2. Metrological tools (uncertainty & traceability concepts, reference materials, validated methods, proficiency testing)
  3. Chemical metrology issues related to food safety measurements
  4. Industry-academia-regulatory agencies; productive partnership for food safety
  5. Metrology of physiological and nutritional measurements
  6. Economic benefits linked to robust quality assurance practices
  7. Capacity building, quality assurance and national development

 

IMEKO TC24 Conference

  1. Role of National Metrology Institutes to ensure the traceability of assigned values in Proficiency Testing Schemes
  2. Reference Materials and Certified Reference Materials: metrological tools for analytical methods validation
  3. Developments of Reference Materials and Certified Reference Materials to cover needs of field laboratories in food and environment sectors
  4. Metallomic approaches to study element speciation in environment and nutritional samples
  5. Bayesian approaches to compute reference values for interlaboratory comparisons and statistical evaluation of uncertainty of Certified Reference Materials in food and environment sectors
  6. Advanced techniques and methods in chemical measurements
  7. Recent developments in metrology in chemistry applied to material science, health and life science