Sample Manifest & sample shipping
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.
Example Sample Manifest: Available here.
Can't find your Sample Manifest? Please use the example above or contact us.
Datasheet: Each kit* contains a datasheet to help fieldworkers collect info for your Sample Manifest.
Ship your samples: Once you have completed your sample manifest, you are now ready to contact NatureMetrics to book the shipping of your samples. Please always contact us to organize the shipping of your samples to our labs. Please get in contact with our support team and raise a 'logistics request' here.
More shipping info: Available here.
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What is a Sample Manifest? This is an Excel metadata sheet. You will find it attached to the email confirming the shipping of your kits - or use the example one at the top of this page.
The Sample Manifest ensures that we process and deliver insights for the correct samples, with the correct tests ('assays'), at the right time, for the right site.
All field workers must familiarize themselves with the Sample Manifest, so they understand the data that needs to be recorded while sampling. This data is vital for producing your eDNA insights.
Requested data: for each sample taken, 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
Thank you for completing your Sample Manifest. We look forward to shipping and processing your samples.
*For compliance reasons, we are unable to add a datasheet to our 'outside UK & EU+' kits for soil, and estuarine & mangrove sediment.
