Welcome to the Nordic
Environmental Specimen Banking Homepage !

This web is a result of the cooperation between the Nordic countries (Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark (Greenland), Sweden and Faroe Island), and are financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers (Nordiska Ministerrådet (NMR)).

The main objective of this web is to make Environmental Specimens more accessible in and between the Nordic countries. On the following pages you will find which institutions that store frozen specimens of different species. By contacting the different institutions you will get information on whether the specimens are accessible.

The web also give information on national ESB activities in the Nordic countries, and on the Nordic ESB cooperation.

CONTENTS

• Lists of species that are sampled for storage in ESBs Monitoring purposes, etc., in the Nordic countries. In the lists you will find reference to institutions that store specimens from specific species
  • Birds
  • Marine mammals
  • Terrestrial mammals
  • Fishes
  • Invertebrates
  • Algae
  • Fungi and bacteria
  • Lichens
  • Macrophytes
  • Bryophytes

• "Manual for the Nordic Countries, Nordic Environmental Specimen Banking - methods in use in ESB". The manual can be accessed directly or by the species lists (see above).

• Information on the Nordic ESB cooperation

• Information on the connection to the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)

• Information on the national activities in the Nordic Countries
  • Norway
  • Iceland
  • Finland
  • Denmark
  • Sweden
  • Faroe Islands

• Other relevant links

• Information on any new additions to the web

You can search here for any words in the web, and you will get a list of the pages where the word is found.

Please contact us if you want to add information or have any questions or comments to these pages. You can send a message on e-mail, or by letter to:

Swedish Museum of Natural History
Department of Contaminant Research
P.O. Box 50007
SE-104 05 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46 8 5195 4113
Fax: +46 8 5195 4256

If you want to apply / add information on stored species in your institution, you will find a copy of the survey that the current information is based on here. Please send it to the Swedish contact person, Tjelvar Odsjö, at the above address.

 

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index.htm Latest update: October 10, 2006 Responsible: Tjelvar Odsjö