We wanted to share an exciting news that an open-access book Chemical Reference Materials for Oceanography: History, Production, and Certification has now been published in the Springer Oceanography book series.

The book explores the history, production, and certification of reference materials for essential parameters in oceanography and provides a comprehensive understanding of them to readers.

Inorganic macro-nutrients, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and carbonate system parameters are used to define biogeographic provinces, monitor ocean health, and detect decadal-scale oceanic climate changes. Without reference materials for these parameters, it would be difficult to produce reliable data sets or long-term baseline studies that are required to verify global change and oceanic stability.

One of sixteen chapters, authored by IOCCP’s Maribel García-Ibáñez, describes a future strategy for production and certification of carbonate system reference material, which has been a topic of several activities in our community in the recent years.

This open-access resource is an invaluable tool for oceanographers and researchers working on seawater chemistry, and we believe it will be of significant interest to our community.