Fluid Collection Monitoring

Statement of Purpose

These links and documents contain information about best practices for monitoring fluid collections in natural history collections.

Introduction

Fluid collections should be monitored on a regular schedule to prevent excessive preservative evaporation, detect faulty seals on storage containers or changes in the quality of the preservative, and to maintain collections at desired concentration levels. Monitoring intervals will vary based on staff resources as well as the environmental stability within a particular collection store, however, a general guideline is to monitor fluid collections every six months.