[Nhcoll-l] Nhcoll-l Digest, Vol 34, Issue 1
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Re: New website to encourage young entomologists (Katherine Nesheim)
Hi Katherine,
Have you and Isaac heard about iNaturalist? Sounds like it started up similar to Class Insecta. Now they’re at the California Academy of Sciences and a part of our active citizen science program. There should be lots of new development happening soon!
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1. New website to encourage young entomologists (Katherine Nesheim)
2. Re: Freezer storage of EtoH tissue samples (Beth.Mantle at csiro.au)
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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 13:20:30 -0500
From: Katherine Nesheim <kcn23 at cornell.edu>
Subject: [Nhcoll-l] New website to encourage young entomologists
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Hello, Natural History Collections listserv!
My name is Katherine Nesheim, and I am a graduate student at Ohio State
University. Along with a friend from my undergrad, I have co-founded a
website called Class Insecta. This is a free website that lets young
scientists upload photos of insects to a digital collection, where the
insects are identified by current and former members (including myself and
my co-founder) of Cornell University's undergraduate entomology club,
Snodgrass and Wigglesworth. Our identifiers do their best to provide an ID
and either a short life history or an interesting fact about the insect.
Our aim is to provide taxonomic information, while keeping kids interested
and informed about their local insect fauna.
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classinsecta.org. We'd like to improve the website, which we designed and
maintain ourselves, as well as recruit more identifiers and find more kids
interested in using Class Insecta.
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page, and feel free to contact me off-list with any questions or advice.
Thank you!
Katherine Nesheim
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Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 21:38:22 +0000
From: <Beth.Mantle at csiro.au>
Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Freezer storage of EtoH tissue samples
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Hi John,
This may not apply to you, but in Australia both total volume and the volume contained in individual storage containers is used to determine whether an EtOH collection (whether frozen or room temperature) requires specialised housing.
For example, if you have a total of 52 litres per freezer in a SINGLE container then it would merit requiring a flammable material freezer. However, if your total of 52 L is comprised of thousands of tiny vials then the risk is much lower. This is based on the premise that IF a fire started in that freezer, then each container would need to be breached for the EtOH to become hazardous.
We have an EtOH collection at room temperature that equates to many hundreds of litres of EtOH but have been advised that, because each vial is only a maximum of 10mL at most, that this does not require any special provision. Whether we should anyway is another question? :)
It might be worth checking if this rule also applies in your State/the US.
Cheers,
Beth
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Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Freezer storage of EtoH tissue samples
I am curious to know how people on this list deal with cold storage for DNA samples in ethanol.
We have thousands of tissue samples and fish fin clips preserved in 95% EtOH in 2ml Sarstedt screw cap vials. We typically store 16 boxes of 81 tubes per freezer rack and can fit 20 racks in a refrigerator/freezer. This makes for a maximum of 52 liters or 13.7 gallons of EtOH stored in such a refrigerator/freezer.
We have been informed by Environmental Health and Safety at our institution that it is improper to store these in regular freezers (as opposed to prohibitively expensive, specialized ?flammable material? freezers).
This person cited NFPA 45 10.5.2 and 12.2.2 and Article 501 of code 70 the National Electrical code.
Here are links to EH&S pages at several institutions that seem to indicate ethanol storage requires flammable material freezers:
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However, my informal polling of colleagues on Facebook suggests that many of them do in fact store screw-top tubes with tissue samples in ethanol in regular freezers (though perhaps without the approval/oversight of their EH&S departments). My view is that fire/explosion risk from storage of these vials must be negligible to non-existent. The flashpoint of pure EtoH is 16.6?C. This temp would only be reached if a freezer failed and no action was taken for a long period of time. The risk of EtOH vapors concentrating in any quantity near internal mechanisms that could spark are minimal since tubes are sealed.
My questions are: Has anyone here received explicit clearance from their EH&S to store EtOH tissue samples in regular freezers? If you got this, what was required to obtain it? If you have ethanol-preserved tissue samples, how do you store them?
This could make for an interesting and useful conversation, but feel free to contact me off-list if you?re concerned about being ?on the record.?
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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 10:21:23 +0100
From: Dirk Neumann <dirk.neumann at zsm.mwn.de>
Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Freezer storage of EtoH tissue samples
To: "John P. Sullivan" <js151 at cornell.edu>,
"nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu" <nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu>
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We store majority of samples in a -25?C deep freezing chamber, 200 x 2
ml tubes per rack, several ten thousand tubes are currently stored per
chamber. Apparently we do not have this strict safety regulations for
our -25?C storage; these do apply only for room temperature storage at
the moment (where were are allowed to have no more than 20 L of 96 %
Ethanol in a fireproof canister inside our alcohol collection) and
inside the lab facilities (histology & DNA lab), where we were advised
recently that we need to adjust & re-equip fridges and cupboards used
for storage of chemicals. The only distinction here is that fluids and
especially acids and bases must be stored separately from solids, and
that storage of highly reactive peroxides would need special
consideration (but we don't use such highly self-reactive peroxides).
It might be worth to check the flash point pure ethanol at -25?C;
freezing point for 96% is between -73/-110 (?C/F) and -115/-175 (?C/F),
so keeping ethanol tubes at -80?C means (depending on dilution of
ethanol resulting from dehydrated cells / tissues) keeping tissues close
to freezing point of the fluid (but exposing samples to physical damage
resulting from formation of ice crystals).
Flash point at -25?C should be well below 16?C, and also evaporation
pressure inside tubes (and thus building of highly combustible
ethanol-air mixtures) is considerably lower. It might perhaps be worth
checking this with colleagues from Chemistry departments at University.
I doubt that a spark released at the inside of a freezer (which could
either be released from the lamp or the control) could ignite the
content of a tube. More likely in case of failure (of the compressor)
would be that the insulation catches fire. Perhaps a physical test
witnessed by the fire marshal helps: try to ignite a 2 ml ethanol tube
at room temperature under controlled conditions, place a box with more
ethanol tubes in close vicinity and see what happens. I seriously doubt
that these would catch fire, too. But the devil is a squirrel and this
is not a question about good judgement but rather an administrative one
which helps to demonstrate power ...
Hope this helps,
all the best
Dirk
Am 30.01.2015 um 19:24 schrieb John P. Sullivan:
I am curious to know how people on this list deal with cold storage
for DNA samples in ethanol.
We have thousands of tissue samples and fish fin clips preserved in
95% EtOH in 2ml Sarstedt screw cap vials. We typically store 16 boxes
of 81 tubes per freezer rack and can fit 20 racks in a
refrigerator/freezer. This makes for a maximum of 52 liters or 13.7
gallons of EtOH stored in such a refrigerator/freezer.
We have been informed by Environmental Health and Safety at our
institution that it is improper to store these in regular freezers (as
opposed to prohibitively expensive, specialized ?flammable material?
freezers).
This person cited NFPA 45 10.5.2 and 12.2.2 and Article 501 of code
70 the National Electrical code.
Here are links to EH&S pages at several institutions that seem to
indicate ethanol storage requires flammable material freezers:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.usd.edu_research_research-2Dand-2Dsponsored-2Dprograms_upload_Flammable-2DLiquids-2DStorage.pdf&d=AwID-g&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=EQOvb7tfOYP7DFTGQe7aTcg8IbeMrUIFY3w22ylp7Jo&s=hcca_EI9_YzWlS358en6nvshcyH3f5JbaP_c1wUZc_o&e=
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However, my informal polling of colleagues on Facebook suggests that
many of them do in fact store screw-top tubes with tissue samples in
ethanol in regular freezers (though perhaps without the
approval/oversight of their EH&S departments). My view is that
fire/explosion risk from storage of these vials must be negligible to
non-existent. The flashpoint of pure EtoH is 16.6?C. This temp would
only be reached if a freezer failed and no action was taken for a long
period of time. The risk of EtOH vapors concentrating in any quantity
near internal mechanisms that could spark are minimal since tubes are
sealed.
My questions are: Has anyone here received explicit clearance from
their EH&S to store EtOH tissue samples in regular freezers? If you
got this, what was required to obtain it? If you have
ethanol-preserved tissue samples, how do you store them?
This could make for an interesting and useful conversation, but feel
free to contact me off-list if you?re concerned about being ?on the
record.?
- John Sullivan
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Collections Archivist & Curatorial Affiliate - Cornell University
Museum of Vertebrates
Research Associate - The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates
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Hi All -- I've read a few species description papers lately in which the
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Glaucous #80, Olive #29, etc. What's the source? Where can I get this code?
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Smithe, Frank B. ?Naturalist?s Color Guide.? AMNH 1975.
Robert M. Chandler, Ph.D.
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Georgia College and State University
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Hi All -- I've read a few species description papers lately in which the authors have described specimens' coloration with a color code, e.g.: Glaucous #80, Olive #29, etc. What's the source? Where can I get this code? Thanks -- ck
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