Thank you Michael! I will have a read.

On 2020-05-25 10:51, Rasser, Michael W. wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> there is a Nature article about the importance of storing geological
> samples in museum collections that might be relevant for us. They
> focus on rock samples for geochemical samples, but the
> take-home-message is obviously beyond that:
> https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-020-01366-w/d41586-020-01366-w.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2_hst9KcNTS420miRt9yWi4zMCkYBDpoLk_sIPoPLl-4fYxJosc2n2uKo
>
>
> Two quotes that I found interesting are:
>
> 	* "Collections of palaeontological samples provide an analogue for
> the practices needed. They also show that large-scale archiving is
> possible."
>
> and the financial aspect...
>
> 	* "We therefore reiterate that curation fees [...] should be
> incorporated into the budgets of research-grant proposals.  [...]
> extra funds will be needed to meet the demand for archiving
> sedimentary geochemical samples."
>
> Best regards,
> Michael
>
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