The San Francisco Estuary Institute Collection at the NIST Biorepository

Published

April 28, 2021

Author(s)

Debra Ellisor, Rebecca Pugh, Nina Buzby, Michael Weaver, Melissa Foley

Abstract

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been collaborating with the San Francisco Bay Estuary Institute (SFEI) since 2009, providing biobanking services at the NIST Biorepository in Charleston, South Carolina in support of their ongoing water quality monitoring program, the Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in the San Francisco Bay (RMP). Specimens (bivalve tissue, bird egg contents, fish tissue and sediment) are collected and processed by SFEI-partnering institutions according to their established protocols and shipped to the NIST Biorepository for archival. This report outlines NIST's role in the project, describes collection and processing protocols developed by SFEI and their collaborators, details shipping and archival procedures employed by biorepository staff and provides an inventory of the collection maintained by NIST from 2009 to 2020.

Citation

NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 8370

Report Number

8370

NIST Pub Series

NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)

Pub Type

NIST Pubs

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https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.8370

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Keywords

biobanking, specimens, SFEI, protocols

Citation

Ellisor, D. , Pugh, R. , Buzby, N. , Weaver, M. and Foley, M. (2021), The San Francisco Estuary Institute Collection at the NIST Biorepository, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.8370, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=932108 (Accessed October 13, 2025)