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Historic Soil Data Cards: Batch 9

SpecimensAustralian National Soil Archive

*Please be aware that this is a complex expedition that has not previously been attempted on DigiVol. Please write any queries in our Forum.

The CSIRO Australian National Soil Archive has in storage many historic soil samples collected from the 1920's to the 1960's. It requires a large amount of effort to transcribe the data from soil data cards into a digital format so that the soil data can be ingested into the publicly accessible Natsoil Database for further research use. The associated soil samples can only be archived (and consequently available for further research use) if the data has been digitised. 

DigiVol expeditions represent a large effort to ensure that these important samples can be retained and archived for further research purposes to provide this resource to the science community.

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