Interview with Andrea Merlone, EURAMET Task Group Convenor
Interview with Andrea Merlone, EURAMET Task Group Convenor
New stable and reproducible measurement standards monitoring environmental changes and the environmental performance of new technologies typically involve measurements with associated low levels of uncertainty over long time scales.
By following a multi-disciplinary approach, EURAMET's coordinated research actions focus on research for robust and stable measurement for monitoring the environment and on research into innovative new systems and technologies that precisely assess environmental parameters.
In 2010 and 2013, EURAMET's European Metrology Research Programme (EMRP) launched a call for projects in this field with an aim to improve data quality for policy making, underpinning environmental research activities and stimulating technological innovation. The projects focus at the local environmental level on air, water and soil pollution, and at the global level on challenges relating to climate change. Earlier this year, the successor programme EMPIR (European Metrology Programme for Innovation and Research) launched another call for Environment projects. An impact report that outlines the key technical achievements and early impacts of the first group of projects completed under the EMRP Environment theme (2010) will soon be published.
To foster possible solutions for present and upcoming environmental metrology challenges the EURAMET Task Group on "Metrology for Environment" was established in 2014. In the following interview with Andrea Merlone (INRIM, Italy), the Convenor of this task group, an insight into this topic will be provided.