Deposition and Soil Solution Ringtest and QA/QC information

Atmospheric deposition and soil solution Working Ringtest programme

Anna KOWALSKA

IBL - Forest Research Institute

3 Braci Lesnej St.

05-090-Raszyn

POLAND

Email: A.Kowalska@ibles.waw.pl

The Atmospheric deposition and soil solution Working Ringtest programme is running biannually. The normal schedule is:

Informing the possible participating labs via email (end of each even year - e.g. 2018, 2020, 2022, ...)
Registration of the participants via internet (end of each even year)
Distribution of the test samples and the invoice (end of each even year)
Data submission by the labs (beginning of each uneven year - e.g. 2019, 2021, 2023, ...)
Deadline of data submission (beginning of each uneven year)
Results (beginning of each uneven year)
Re-qualification process finished (winter/spring of each uneven year)

The ringtest is financed with a participation fee and ringtest sample preparation from participants.

Instructions for ringtest sample preparation

Please, keep in mind that submission of the monitoring results to the PCC database is only possible if your lab participated in the ring test for all submitted parameters. If you want to participate and you need a labcode or/and a password - please, contact Anna Kowalska.

Webinterface for registration and data submisson

Evaluation procedure

Requalification procedure