Sampling Science & Technology (SST) is a free publication for the sampling community, providing a communications platform for all interested in the theory and practice of representative sampling and blending. SST aims both to serve the world sampling community and to disseminate awarenes of proper sampling practices to all other interested parties in science, technology, industry, commerce, as well as to supervising and regulating authorities.
Contents · Issue 3
Editorial · Issue 3
The Dutch Not-for-Profit organisation TOXICOWATCH has for ~15 years performed a critical and wide-ranging public duty on a shoestring budget - with remarkable technological, environmental, and societal impact.
For its biomonitoring fieldwork, TOXICOWATCH is developing a very broad range of sampling media (sample types in the TOS parlance) to do environmental assessments. TOXICOWATCH’s new, innovative sampling media are of more than academic interest – indeed quite the contrary. This issue of SST is proud to present the prospects offered by this creative sampling media bonanza to the IPGSA community, an approach far removed from our more traditional sample types: rocks, ore, soil, food, feed, industrial intermediates, and final products. Indeed, we are introduced to the featured topic of SST#3 which the editor has termed ‘Off-Broadway sampling’.
The first two articles in this issue truly live up to this declaration. The first by TOXICOWATCH, which kindly accepted an invitation to feature its important societal work with a focused scope on the bewildering range of sampling media used. This is followed by an even more exotic approach for a purpose so far away from IPGSA’s traditional sampling context so as to defy belief – at first. But it is hoped these clashes with our usual sampling approaches will be inspiring for the IPGSA community.
Two articles follow from the highest echelons re. sampling theory, complementing the featured theme in SST#2, ‘Heterogeneity Testing’.
The debate that was initiated there is enfolding with élan and panache – to be appreciated here in SST#3 as well. This is a front-and-center debate on a [...]
Sampling Science and Technology (SST) is published by the International Pierre Gy Sampling Association (IPGSA). The purpose of IPGSA is to oversee formal activities of the world sampling community and to represent the views of this community.
The Association is a common-interest, unincorporated association of individuals solely associated for the common purpose of promoting the interests of the international sampling community and its various activities.
Sampling Science & Technology (SST) is edited by Professor Kim H. Esbensen. Esbensen is an international expert and consultant in sampling (Theory of Sampling, TOS), chemometrics and PAT (Process Analytical Technology).
Through a 35-year academic career involving three professorships, he has conducted R&D across a wide range of application fields, primarily in process industries (mining, minerals extraction and processing, bio-fuels, recycling, environmental monitoring, nuclear waste) in environmental science a.o. In 2015 he established an international consultancy (KHE Consulting) from which he is also a dedicated contributor to IPGSA's educational outreach.
Sampling Science & Technology welcomes all didactic etudes, practical perspectives, illustrative case histories, as well as the occasional theoretical article aimed at the professional sampling community and all other stakeholders.
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