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150 years ago, on 21 December 1872, HMS Challenger sailed from Portsmouth, England, on the first expedition organized and funded for a specific scientific purpose. One of the major…

“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?” Terry Pratchett Thomas ‘Tim’ Dauphinee (1916-2017)    On February…

Salinity (PSS-78) = Temperature (ITS-90) = Sea Pressure (dbar) = Conductivity (mS/cm) =

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This was a long journey in the history of my web-site, before I personally met with Tim Dauphinee – living father of the modern salinometry,…

The work aimed at the development of a uniform repeatable Practical Salinity Scale, based on electrical conductivity measurement, was undertaken in 1975 at the request…

A work of a chemical nature, while it had no direct reference to the sea water, was, nevertheless, important to an understanding of the chemistry…

Studies of ocean circulation, which were carried out later in 19th century, involved investigation the distribution of salinity. Attempts were made to measure salt content…

    The saltiness of seawater has been recognized throughout recorded history.  Theories about origin of the seawater and nature of saltness of the sea…

For the last 5 years I’ve been owning and editing the web-site www.salinometry.com, which  recently was  attacked by hackers.  It is happened time to time and I’ve recovered…