What's es-BANK?

es-BANK is an orderly system of collection, archiving, cataloging and management of biological and environmental specimens from all over the world and provide them to wide range of researchers within and outside our university for improving scope of the monitoring studies on environmental toxic substances.
Archived specimens: wildlife, water, sediments etc., containing about 1,300 species and 100,000 specimens collected from Asia, Europe, Australia, North/South America and Antarctic, and from Arctic, North/South Pacific, North/South Atlantic, Indian and Antarctic Oceans during the last 50 years.

Taxon Species count Specimen count

News
Mar. 27, 2024 636 terrestrial mammal samples, 260 cetacean & sea cows samples, 302 bird samples, 316 fish samples and 22 invertebrate & others samples have been added to the database.
Apr. 04, 2023 510 terrestrial mammal samples, 114 cetacean & sea cows samples, 273 bird samples, 230 reptile & amphibian samples, 44 fish samples and 4 invertebrate & others samples have been added to the database.
Mar. 22, 2022 845 terrestrial mammal samples, 271 cetacean & sea cows samples, 478 bird samples and 68 fish samples have been added to the database.
Mar. 31, 2021 827 terrestrial mammal samples, 925 cetacean & sea cows samples, 26 seal & sea otter samples, 433 bird samples, 7 reptile & amphibian samples, 114 fish samples and 26 invertebrate & others samples have been added to the database.
Mar. 18, 2020 “Request Forms” have been renewed.
Mar. 17, 2020 414 terrestrial mammal samples, 665 cetacean & sea cows samples, 235 bird samples, 6 reptile & amphibian samples, 335 fish samples and 56 invertebrate & others samples have been added to the database.
Mar. 27, 2019 82 terrestrial mammal samples, 451 cetacean & sea cows samples, 1044 bird samples, 14 fish samples and 99 invertebrate & others samples have been added to the database.
Mar. 29, 2018 168 terrestrial mammal samples, 69 cetacean & sea cows samples, 179 bird samples, 10 fish samples and 63 invertebrate & others samples have been added to the database.
Mar. 31, 2017 “Request Forms” have been renewed.
Mar. 13, 2017 859 terrestrial mammal samples, 498 cetacean & sea cows samples, 78 bird samples, 449 fish samples and 15 invertebrate & others samples have been added to the database.
Archived news
Contacts
Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime University
2-5 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama 790-8577, Japan

Tel&Fax: +81-89-927-8133  E-mail: es_bank@stu.ehime-u.ac.jp