Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution archived 50 liter open ocean water samples available
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has archived the remains of what was once the largest collection of large volume (50 liter) open ocean water samples in the world (download the list from here). The samples are unfiltered, unacidified, stored in black plastic barrels and were collected mostly between 1962 and 1987 with Bodman samplers or the ship’s clean seawater intake. Most have been disposed of due to lack of storage space and these last 750 cannot be stored indefinitely. Only whole barrels are available. We cannot provide subsampling. If you have an interest in analyzing any of these please contact Jessica Drysdale (jdrysdale@whoi.edu). They can be yours for $25 handling plus the cost of shipping and an acknowledgement in any published results.