Report of the Workshop on the Application of Passive Sampling and Passive Dosing to Contaminants in Marine Media (WKPSPD)

The ICES Workshop on the Application of Passive Sampling and Passive Dosing to Contaminants in Marine Media (WKPSPD) met at ICES Headquarters, Copenhagen, on 29–31 January 2013. The meeting was co-chaired by Kees Booij (the Netherlands) and Craig Robinson (UK), with 16 other participants from 8 countries. The main aims of the workshop were to report on the current state of the art for passive sampling (PS) and passive dosing (PD), and to identify opportunities and gaps with respect to their use in environmental monitoring and assessment programmes required by Re-gional Seas Conventions, or the EU Marine Strategy Framework (MSFD) and Water Framework Directives (WFD).