Chromatography data system Chrom Perfect® LSi chosen by Plymouth Marine Laboratories (UK) for portable marine Analysis

December 2002

Justice Laboratory Software, the leading developer of Chromatography Data system software for science based industries, are pleased to announce that Plymouth Marine Laboratories have chosen Chrom Perfect® LSi for their portable marine analysis.

Known as the BIO GAS TRACER GROUP. The group are interested in all sorts of gases that are naturally produced by marine organisms. These gases play an a major role in climate changes, some aid cloud formation others can have serious effects on our climate, Carbon dioxide is a prime example.

These gases occur in sea water at very low levels so techniques have to found to measure them. PML has been instrumental in the development of innovative and world-leading techniques for marking and tracking water masses using SF6. Ecosystem manipulation experiments have previously been limited in the ocean by advection and dispersion. The deployment of advanced sensitive tracer technology has allowed PML to track surface water masses for periods exceeding two weeks and distances greater than 1400 km, from the addition of small quantities of a gaseous tracer, sulphur hexafluoride (SF6). For analysis of such low level analysis a good chromatography data collection system is needed.

" We used numerous chromatography software products in the past, but found these systems were difficult to use and required proprietary computing hardware. Also when we then wanted to update the package, instead of making it simpler the later version became more difficult to us.

We investigated many packages until we purchased Chrom Perfect®. It was simple to use and did more than the other packages, so it was natural to update to the new Chrom Perfect® system.

I would not hesitate to recommend Chrom Perfect® for use in demanding mobile environments. not only is the software very powerful yet easy to use but the new Tigre II interfaces are very robust and can be run from a laptop"

-Malcome Liddicoat,

About Plymouth Marine Laboratory

The Plymouth Marine Laboratory [PML] is an independent and impartial collaborative centre of the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. On the 1st April 2002 PML transferred from being a wholly owned NERC research centre to form an independent organization with charitable status. The new PML Group comprises PML (a company limited by guarantee, registered in England & Wales, with charitable status) and a trading subsidiary - to facilitate the exploitation of PML research and its products and to provide a more appropriate interface for working with industrial and commercial partners.

The Plymouth Marine Laboratory was formed in 1988 (largely in response to the recommendations of a House of Lords Report) by a merger of the NERC Institute for Marine Environmental Research [IMER] and the Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association [MBA]. IMER had been created in 1970 through the merger of a number of units, the largest of which was the Edinburgh Oceanographic Laboratory, with a vision to satisfy a national need for coastal & marine research consolidated on one site in Plymouth, Devon. IMER was one of the world's first multidisciplinary marine research centers.

The primary driver of research activity at PML is to carry out fundamental, core strategic and applied research of a world-class standard. Research at PML has always been timely and highly relevant to UK and international societal needs. The core research program has the mission to contribute to the issues of global change and sustainability, which are of worldwide importance.