能力验证是环境监测质量保证的重要环节

能力验证是近几年来开展的一项新的技术活动,是环境监测质量保证的重要环节.有组织、有计划的开展环境监测系统实验室的能力验证来确定实验室的能力并确保实验室维持较高的检测水平,也是保证环境监测数据具有科学性、准确性、可比性的必要措施.本文对此进行了论述.     

环境监测部门标准变更和仪器校准后的确认方法

探讨了监测方法标准、污染物排放标准和环境质量标准变更后的确认方法及仪器设备校准后确认的要求及方法,分析了标准变更后和仪器校准后确认工作对环境监测质量控制的重要性。     

便携式XRF土壤重金属检测仪在环境应急监测中的应用探讨

系统评估了便携式XRF重金属检测仪的精密度、准确度及测定影响因素,开展了该方法测定土壤中Cu、Zn、As、Pb、Cr与国标分析方法的系统比对。结果表明:上述5种元素的方法检出限为5.7 mg/kg~16.0 mg/kg,土壤标准样品测定6次结果的RSD为1.0%~4.7%,Zn、Pb和As测定结果的相对误差10%;与国标法相比,便携式XRF重金属检测仪测定Cu、Zn、As、Pb的准确度较好,测定Cr的准确度波动较大。将该方法用于应急污染事故监测,可迅速锁定污染物及污染区域,实现野外分析的预判。     

新疆城市环境空气PM_(10)自动监测仪器质控巡检工作探析

随着城市环境空气质量自动监测业务现代化的飞速发展,新疆城市共安装38套PM10环境空气自动监测系统。本文通过对新疆19个城市空气自动监测系统PM10的巡检和质控考核,发现近几年来该系统运行维护中的诸多问题,从而提出仪器维护注意事项,以期提高新疆城市PM10监测数据质量,准确反映环境空气质量状况,为环境管理和政府决策提供更加科学、准确、可靠的基础监测数据。     

Environmental science as a social process

The felt need for better environmental information for planners and voters is based on maladaptive beliefs about the nature of knowledge and social order. Because there is not a meta-model which links the individual environmental sciences into a coherent whole, understanding complex environmental problems is necessarily a process of discourse between scientists from separate sciences—a process of gaining trust, building new patterns of thinking, and reaching toward new consensuses. By acknowledging the nature of the process, we can improve upon it and relieve the felt need for better environmental information.     

Montane Meadows as Indicators of Environmental Change

We used a time series of satellite multispectral imagery for mapping and monitoring six classes of montane meadows arrayed along a moisture gradient (from hydric to mesic to xeric). We hypothesized that mesic meadows would support the highest species diversity of plants, birds, and butterflies because they are more moderate environments. We also hypothesized that mesic meadows would exhibit the greatest seasonal and interannual variability in spectral response across years. Field sampling in each of the meadow types was conducted for plants, birds, and butterflies in 1997 and 1998. Mesic meadows supported the highest plant species diversity, but there was no significant difference in bird or butterfly species diversity among meadow types. These data show that it may be easier to detect significant differences in more species rich taxa (e.g., plants) than taxa that are represented by fewer species (e.g., butterflies and birds). Mesic meadows also showed the greatest seasonal and interannual variability in spectral response. Given the rich biodiversity of mesic montane meadows and their sensitivity to variations in temperature and moisture, they may be important to monitor in the context of environmental change     

海水BOD自动测定仪

适用于淡水的BOD测定仪已经成型,海水盐度高,BOD浓度低,测定仪样品传输及测量的精度和微生物传感器菌种的耐盐性,给构建海水BOD自动测定仪带来困难.以溶解氧电极微生物传感器法为基础,依据海水BOD测定的技术特点,分析样品传输系统、恒温系统和信号采集与处理系统的技术要求,并筛选耗氧耐盐菌种作为微生物传感器的菌株,构建了海水BOD测定仪.用该测定仪测定海水标样,测定结果与标准稀释法测定的BOD5具有良好的相关性和准确度.     

我国环境应急监测技术方法和装备存在的问题及建议

总结了近期我国环境污染事故的新特点,从应急监测技术路线、技术方法2个方面分析我国环境应急监测技术支撑体系的现状,对当前应急监测仪器装备现状进行深入调研,提出应急监测技术支撑体系和应急监测仪器装备及技术方面存在的问题及建议。     

Parasites of Fish as Indicators of Environmental Stress

During the 1994/1995 EMAP-Estauries program in the Carolinian Province we investigated the feasibility of using parasites of fish as response indicators. Parasites of fish are an indigenous component of healthy ecosystems. Within the EMAP-E design, the suite of environmental parameters which may affect parasite abundance, richness, prevalence, and diversity can be divided into three categories: 1) the physical and chemical characteristics of the water and sediment (including contaminants) external to the fish; 2) the internal environment defined by the physical condition (physiological) of individual fish; and 3) the presence and relative abundance of benthic macroinvertebrates, many of which serve as intermediate hosts. The biotic response of parasites to environmental stressors is also reflected in the health of fish. Parasite assemblages of silver perch Bairdiella chrysura respond to both natural and anthropogenic stressors. Our results showed that particular environmental stressors and specific parasites that respond include: temperature and monogeneans; contaminants and nematodes; low dissolved oxygen and protists; and salinity, together with a mixture of metal and organic contaminants and crustacea. Parasites of fish are useful biomarkers and appear to be more sensitive to environmental stressors than are the fish themselves. Parasite responses to selected environmental stressors may be used to discriminate polluted and unpolluted sites. The use of parasites of fish as biomarkers has relevant application to fisheries management and coastal monitoring programs.     

环境监测质量管理现状及发展对策初探

分析了我国环境监测质量管理现状,探讨了发展方向及对策。     

上海磁悬浮快速列车环境振动影响探讨

通过对磁悬浮快速列车沿线两侧区域振动监测,得出振动级VLzmax与列车速度有较好的相关性,实测得出了振动随车速变化的衰减系数。同时给出了振动随离轨道距离变化的衰减方程,参照现有环境振动国家标准,给出了不同车速下磁悬浮轨道两侧区域的振动达标距离。     

江苏省地方环境保护标准体系建设刍议

简述了国内环境标准发展趋势,以及国内地方环境标准制订情况,分析了江苏省地方标准现状及问题。提出,应完成现有地方标准修订备案;重点制定新兴行业和大气污染控制标准;加强技术规范、技术政策的制定和编制;建立完善的标准执行与反馈机制。     

A Framework for the Design of Ecological Monitoring Programs as a Tool for Environmental and Nature Management

Environmental and nature management can not operate effectivelywithout reliable information on changes in the environment andon the causes of those changes. Ecological monitoring canrepresent an important source of information. However, manyoperational monitoring programs are not very effective, i.e., not very useful for decision-making. We present a conceptualframework for the development and maintenance of effectiveecological monitoring programs. In the decision-making process,two main functions for monitoring can be recognized: an earlywarning and an early control function. Both these functionsrequire a high diagnostic power. This is used as a guideline forthe design process. The design consists of choices concerningmonitoring objectives, objects and variables to be monitored,sampling strategy and design, data collection, data handling, maintenance and organization. Arguments commonly put forward inliterature and in practice to support the various choices aresubjected to a critical analysis. The framework will be helpfulin the design of effective monitoring systems as it avoidsimportant components to be overlooked, clarifies the relationbetween the different components, maximizes the exploitation ofexisting possibilities and opportunities and identifiesshortcomings in advance. This will result in monitoring programsthat should be able to live up to their expectations.     

哈希公司COD测定仪替代试剂的实验研究

美国HACH公司制造的COD测定仪,操作简便,安全性好,但试剂依赖进口且价格昂贵。为了降低COD测定成本,减少环境污染,开发研究了哈希COD测定仪适用的替代试剂,该替代试剂通过实际样品和COD标准样品的实验验证,并和HACH进口试剂、国标方法测定结果相比较,结果表明,用替代试剂测定COD,方法的精密度好、准确度高,符合国家标准要求。     

Application of network method as a tool for integrating biodiversity values in Environmental Impact Assessment

Highway construction or expansion projects are among major activities of economic development especially in developing countries. However, road development consistently can lead to major damages to the environment, including habitat fragmentation and ecological instabilities and a considerable threat to fauna and flora. At this point, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in road developments is needed to address and evaluate the ecological issues in decision-making. The object of this study is to strengthen the consideration of ecological issues, i.e., biodiversity in the existing EIA tools. This paper regards a network method as a means to make informed planning decisions by the lessons from a case study. The results indicate that network method is well suited to be applied in ecological impacts assessment. However, some limitations such as complexity and time consumed make casual networks unpopular. Also, impact of traffic noise on acoustic communication (wildlife and human) was performed. It has been shown that sound level for human is much higher than admissible standards. Finally, the study expresses some mitigation measures to improve the acquisition for environmental impact assessment process.     

Validation of a diffusive sampler for NO2

A diffusive sampler for NO2, Willems badge, was validated in laboratory experiments and field tests. The collecting reagent for NO2 in the sampler is triethanolamine, and the analysis is based on a modified colorimetric method, the Saltzman method. The analysis was performed by a flow injection analysis (FIA) technique. The sampling rate for the sampler was determined to be 40.0 ml min-1. There was no effect of NO2 concentration or relative humidity on sampling rate, and the influence of sampling time was found to be small. The detection limit was 4 micrograms m-3 for a 24 h sample. The capacity is high enough to allow sampling of 150 micrograms m-3 for 7 days, which is twice the recommended Swedish short-term (24 h) guideline value as a 98-percentile over 6 months. In field tests, the sampler performed well, even at wind speeds higher than 2 m s-1, and at low temperatures. The overall uncertainty of the method was 24%. The sensitivity and capacity of the method also make it suitable for personal sampling for 2-8 h in working environments.     

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) as collaborative learning process

A collaborative problem-solving approach was applied to environmental impact assessment of regional waste management strategy in Pirkanmaa, Finland. Various actors—interest groups, authorities, and experts—were invited to engage in joint fact finding and to exchange their views on the goals of alternative waste management strategies. The experiences of these encounters suggest that collaborative EIA can serve as a learning and civic discovery process where people can act together and find new solutions. During the process, the participants were able to reflect on their preferences and factual beliefs and to create a previously unconsidered waste management strategy that most parties found acceptable. The potential for learning and finding mutually acceptable solutions depended, however, on the legitimacy and institutional settings of the process: to what extent different perspectives were considered in the process, not only included, and how EIA was connected to a political decision-making process.     

Migration of Birds as an Indicator of Broad-Scale Environmental Condition

The general profile of the pollution of drinking water, originating from groundwater, by nitrates, chloride and arsenic, in the Prefecture of Thessaloniki, was studied in this project. Samples (tap water) were collected from 52 areas-villages of the Prefecture, during a period of 6 months. The analytical results were related to certain points on the map of the area, thus producing coloured representations of the Prefecture, according to the concentration of the corresponding pollutant. The statistical analysis of the data led to some conclusions concerning the causes of pollution and the relation of the concentrations to certain physico-chemical parameters. Nitrate concentration of samples collected from two specific regions were especially high, sometimes above the highest permitted level. A limited number of samples (13.5%) contained arsenic concentrations above the imminent EC drinking water limit (10 ppb). The majority of the tap water samples, collected from areas along the seashore contained increased concentrations of chloride ions, which is a clear indication of seawater intrusion into the related aquifers.