SESAR Community

SESAR's user community includes individual investigators, sample repositories, museums, large sampling campaigns, data management specialists, and geoinformatics developers.

Become part of the SESAR community - start using the IGSN for your samples!

Repositories that have registered large sample collections include

• Mineralogical Museum of Harvard University
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
• Antarctic Research Facility
• US Polar Rock Repository
• University of Rhode Island

Data Systems that have implemented the IGSN for unique sample identification include

• NGDC Index of Marine and Lacustrine Samples
• Marine Geoscience Data System
• SedDB
• EarthChem/GEOCHRON

Sampling Campaigns that are or will be using the International Geo Sample Number include

• International Continental Drilling Program
• International Ocean Drilling Program (nearly 3.5 million objects from ODP already registered)
• US Extended Continental Shelf Program
• US Critical Zone Observatories

Please contact info@geosamples.org if you are interested in becoming part of the SESAR community.