While at NIWA I am based in the Invertebrates Collection. This houses over 100,000 samples of sea invertebrates, mostly kept in jars of ethanol or formalin.
So far I have been involved with helping to maintain the samples by rehousing them in new jars with clean ethonal, updating the database and relabeling them.
I have seen some pretty cool creatures.
You have to work in a systematic way so that samples and labels are not mixed up.
Here is a photo of a large starfish in the collection.
(Photo - NIWA - Kerry Harrison)
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