IESB International

Environmental Specimen Bank Group

Paul R. Becker

Rebecca S. Pugh

National Institute of Standards and Technology Hollings Marine Laboratory

Charleston, South Carolina, USA

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IESB International Environmental

Specimen Bank Group

www.inter-esb.org

Programs of the IESB Group emphasize the banking of biological and non-biological specimens for deferred (i.e., retrospective) chemical analysis as part of ongoing environmental monitoring programs.

Reasons for Establishing ESBs:

1. Reference for evaluating environmental policies & regulations on contaminants

Example: German

Environmental Specimen Bank

• The Environmental Specimen Bank is a major component of the German environmental observation system.

• It provides a scientific basis for

decisions by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) concerning what action it considers necessary as a means of protecting the environment and monitoring the efficacy of such action.

Reasons for Establishing ESBs:

2. Ecological monitoring & research

Example:

ESB for Global Monitoring, Japan

Example:

ESB Swedish Museum of Natural History

Reasons for Establishing ESBs:

3. Health monitoring & research

Example: CDC and ATSDR

Specimen Packaging, Inventory and Repository, USA

CDC and ATSDR Specimen Packaging,

Inventory and Repository

Example: NZG Biobank, South

Africa

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IESB

the beginning

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1977, April:

International Workshop on The Use of Biological Specimens for the Assessment of Human Exposure to Environmental Pollutants, Luxembourg

Proceedings: A. Berlin, A.H. Wolf,

& Y. Hasegawa (Eds.),

Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1979

Organizers: US EPA, WHO, CEC

Objective: To assess the types of environmental pollutants and human specimens most suitable for “biological monitoring” and to evaluate the probable usefulness of biological specimen banking.

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1978, October:

International Workshop on Monitoring Environmental Materials and Specimen Banking, Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: N.-P. Luepke (Ed.), Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1979

Organizers: US EPA, Federal Environmental Agency (Germany), CEC

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1978, October:

International Workshop on Monitoring Environmental Materials and Specimen Banking, Berlin, Germany

Recommendations:

1. Establish environmental specimen banks for determining trends in exposure to previously unrecognized pollutants or pollutants for which analytical techniques may at present be inadequate.

2. Establish pilot specimen banks to study problems of organizing long-term storage.

3. Harmonize banking activities internationally (as much as possible).

Environmental Specimen Banks (1981)

1. Swedish Museum of Natural History collections start in 1960s (Olsson) 2. Canadian Wildlife Service wildlife specimen collection start in mid-1960’s (Elliott & Turle) 3. 1979: Pilot Specimen Bank facility established at NIST (Zeisler & Wise) 4. 1979: Preliminary studies at National Institute of Environmental Studies, Tsukuba (Ambe) 5. 1981: ESB established at Münster, KFA Juelich (Kemper, Nuernberg, Stoeppler, & Duerbeck)

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Environmental Specimen Banks (2014)

1. Alaska Frozen Tissue Collection, USA 2. Canadian Wildlife Service, Specimen Bank, Canada 3. National Aquatic Biological Specimen Bank, Canada 4. NIST Marine ESB, USA 5. CASPIR, CDC, USA 6. Arctic ESB Greenland, Denmark 7. Faroe Islands ESB, Denmark 8. Norwegian ESB, Norway 9. Palijakka ESB, Finland 10. ESB, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden

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11. German ESB, Germany 12. Fish Tissue Bank, United Kingdom 13. Predatory Bird Monitoring Scheme, UK 14. Aquaitaine ESB, France 15. Ecotheque, ANDRA & OPE, France 16. Mytilothèque, France 17. Biscay Bay ESB, Spain 18. ESB of Galicia, Spain 19. Marine Animal Tissue Bank (BTAM), Portugal 20. Mediterranean Marine Mammal Tissue Bank, Italy

21. Antarctic ESB, Italy 22. NZG Biobank, South Africa 23. Time Capsule ESB, Japan 24. ESB for Global Monitoring, Japan 25. National ESB, Korea 26. Library for Marine Samples, Korea 27. Yangtze ESB, China 28. Australian ESB, Australia

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ESB Workshops and Conferences

1977, Luxembourg 1978, 2010, 2012, Berlin 1982, Saarbrucken 1987, Bayreuth 1991, Vienna 1996, Stockholm 2009, Göteborg

2008, Sydney

1986, Gloucester 1989, Ottawa 2005, Charleston

1995, Honolulu

1997, Osaka 2000, 2007, Tokyo 2004, Matsuyama 2004, Tsukuba 2007, Incheon 2013, Shanghai

1995, Honolulu – Pacifichem ‘95 2007, Tokyo – DIOXIN 2007 2008, Sydney - SETAC World Congress

2009, Göteborg – SETAC Europe 2012, Berlin- SETAC World Congress

21 since 1978

Last International ESB Conference:

Purpose - provide a focus on the sustainable development, management and international cooperation of Environmental Specimen Bank network coping with regional and global environmental changes.

Welcome to Shanghai ● ICESB 2013

October 12-15, 2013

International Conference on Environmental Specimen Banks: securing a strategy to monitor emerging

pollutants in the regional and global environment

http://esb.tongji.edu.cn/en/

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Develop and initiate mechanisms for enhancing international cooperation

Welcome to Shanghai ● ICESB 2013

October 12-15, 2013

Major recommendation from the 2013 Shanghai Conference:

Mechanisms: 1. ESB international workshops & conferences

2. Expanded applications of websites

3. Researcher exchanges

4. Measurement collaborations related to

international issues (exchange of data &/or samples)

5. Cooperative sample collections

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VISIT THE POSTER:

The International Environmental Specimen Bank (IESB) Group Networking Survey: What is

it good for?

Welcome to Shanghai ● ICESB 2013

October 12-15, 2013

Also resulting from the Conference was a “Networking Survey” of all known ESBs

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Next International ESB Conference:

Nice, France, Spring 2015

Hosted by ANDRA & OPE

ANDRA’s Ecotheque established in Meuse in 2013

Purpose – long-term storage of all environmental baseline samples collected by the Permanent Environment Observatory (OPE) for the future deep geological storage site for radioactive waste in Meuse/Haute-Marne.

Mechanisms for enhancing international cooperation in environmental specimen banking will concentrate on:

Next International ESB Conference:

1. Expanded applications of websites, individual &

IESB Group website

2. Measurement collaborations related to international issues (exchange of data &/or samples)