Programmes and Activities

The following countries maintain or develop environmental specimen banks activities at different levels.

Links to environmental specimen bank sites

• Swedish Environmental Specimen Bank activities and co-ordination
  at Swedish Museum of Natural History; Stockholm
• U.S. Marine Environmental Specimen Bank (Marine ESB)
  at Hollings Marine Laboratory; Charleston, SC
• Canada's National Aquatic Biological Specimen Bank and Database
  at the Canada Centre for Inland Waters/Environment Canada; Burlington, Ontario
• Canadian Wildlife Service Specimen Bank
  at National Wildlife Research Centre (Wildlife Toxicology Division - Specimen Bank)
• German Environmental Specimen Bank
  at Federal Environment Agency; Dessau-Roßlau
• Japanese Environmental Specimen Time Capsule Program
  at National Institute of Environmental Science (NIES); Tsukuba
• Japanese Environmental Specimen Bank for Global Monitoring (es-BANK)
  at Ehime University; Matsuyama
• Norwegian Environmental Specimen Bank
  at Oslo Centre for Interdisciplinary Environmental and Social Research; Oslo
  
• The Mediterranean Marine Mammals Tissue Bank (Italy)
  of the University of Padova
• BCAA - Antarctic Environmental Specimen Bank (Italy)
  at the University of Genova; Genova

Environmental specimen banks in development

• South Korean National Environmental Specimen Bank
  at National Institute of Environmental Sciences (NIER); Seoul
• French Environmental Specimen Bank
  at Observatoire de Recherche sur la Qualité de l'Environnement
• French Environmental Specimen Bank
  at Observatoire Pérenne de l'Environnement
• British National Fish Tissue Archive
  at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH)
• Yangtze Environmental Specimen Bank
  at Tongji University; Shanghai