… all over the world. South Korea also maintains two specimen banks with different focuses. The  Korean National Environmental Specimen Bank  routinely collects animals … the National Institute of Environmental Sciences (NIER) in Seoul. Since 2012, the  Library for Marine Samples  is operated by the Korean Institute of Ocean Science and …

… 2015  Annual Conference, London, UK, 30 September - 2 October, 2015 Congress on the use and impact of environmental specimen banking 2014 , Pau, France, 06-07 November, … Monit. 8, 795-799. Odsjö, T., 2006. The environmental specimen bank, Swedish Museum of Natural History - A base for contaminant monitoring and environmental … 2015  Annual Conference, London, UK, 30 September - 2 October, 2015 Congress on the use and impact of environmental specimen banking 2014 , Pau, France, 06-07 November, …

… complement to environmental research. Samples that are banked today can be used by future generations to study environmental processes and how they change … tissue samples of stranded marine mammals. Mosses, lichens and tree specimens are used to document levels and trends in air pollutions. Other terrestrial specimens …