… to established banks and background documents on the work routine. Journeys through time for the protection of the environment Environmental specimen banks archive … by future generations to study environmental processes and how they change through time. Currently, environmental specimen banking is experiencing a renaissance due to …

… ESBs Standardized sampling, sample preparation, and archiving is essential when time trends in contamination are analysed because differences in sample handling can … strategies National Institute of Environmental Science (NIES): Samples lists of the time capsule program   Accessibility of data The number and type of archived samples …

… information on the individual programmes. Asia The  Japanese Environmental Specimen Time Capsule Programme of the National Institute of Environmental Science (NIES) in … established in 1980. Nest to opportunistic samples of e.g. endangered birds, the Time Capsule Programme regularly samples bivalves, fish and sediments from the …