How to use your sample manifest
Your sample manifest is one of the most important steps in your journey with NatureMetrics: we cannot ship your samples or start processing them until your sample manifest is completed.
What is a sample manifest?
The sample manifest is an Excel metadata sheet that will be sent as an attachment with your shipping confirmation email. The purpose of the sample manifest is to ensures that we process and deliver insights for the correct samples, with the correct tests ('assays'), at the right time, for the right site.
Inside each kit* you receive, there will be a datasheet that fieldworkers will need to fill in in order to complete the sample manifest.
All field workers should also familiarize themselves with the sample manifest, as it will help them understand the data that needs to be recorded while sampling. This data is vital for producing your eDNA insights so needs to be recorded correctly. If you have any questions regarding the recording of data, please contact us, or reach out to your account manager.
What data is recorded in the sample manifest?
The requested data for each sample includes:
- Lat / long location info
- Sampling country
- Habitat
- Number of sub-samples taken to make up the sample
- Volume of water filtered (if working with aquatic kits
- Tests (assays) to be run on the sample
Can’t find your sample manifest?
Reach out to the team here and we can provide a new sample manifest or you can access a sample datasheet here.
*For compliance reasons, we are unable to add a datasheet to our 'outside UK & EU+' kits for soil, and estuarine & mangrove sediment.
