SESAR - Solid Earth Sample Registry Home Page

SESAR, the Solid Earth SAmple Registry, is an NSF funded project to build a web-based digital registry where investigators, curators, or other persons collecting and managing solid earth samples can register these samples to obtain an International Geo Sample Number IGSN, a serial number that for the first time will allow samples to be uniquely identified on a global scale. Through use of the IGSN , it will become possible to link and integrate wide ranges of sample-based data types, leading to new interdisciplinary approaches in research.