A number of samples were collected from riverine, estuarine and coastal waters around Melbourne, SE Australia for the purposes of validating the proposed method.
Field validation of the instrument and method was performed in Port Philip and Western Port Bays, and Bass Strait in Victoria, SE Australia, as part of the SV Pelican 1 “Two Bays cruise” in January 2010. More than 3200 nitrate analyses were performed on-line during eight days of extended operation, over a cruise path of 285 km. Samples for batch analysis were also collected periodically from the manual sampling line (W/MS, Fig. 1), refrigerated and transported to the laboratory for comparative analysis.