Australian National Soil Archive

Scientific reference collection of physical samples of Australian soils. There are over 100,000 soil specimens in the collection: 70,000 fully archived and 30,000 stored specimens (still to be archived). The specimen collection reflects the changes in research focus over the last 70 years and expects to continue this into the future. \n\nThe starting collection, which was received at the founding of the Soil Archive in 2003, has been complemented by more recent submissions from other agencies and current CSIRO projects from a range of Business Units (predominantly Agriculture & Food, Land & Water). Researchers can submit their soil specimens to the Soil Archive. These soil specimens will need to be accompanied by the collected soil data. For more information, see our website. \n\nThe sub sample collection of the Soil Archive holds 43,000 specimens of fine earth (< 2 mm) (10 gram duplicates of the larger specimens) that are suitable to near-infrared spectroscopic analysis. \nLineage: In 2003, in order to preserve them for future use, circa 55,000 soil specimens from five separate smaller CSIRO soil specimen collections (in Brisbane, Townsville, Adelaide, Hobart and Perth) were sent to Canberra. The vast majority of specimens in the collection has been collected by CSIRO, but since 2010 many thousands of specimens have been contributed by other organisations, predominantly state agencies. \nWhile the oldest specimen is from 1926, most were collected from the 1950's onward. The specimens sampled before the 1950’s do not have location data of the required accuracy, and are therefore not archivable without additional effort re-locating the relevant sites. However they can be (and have been) used by researcher familiar with the original publications. These early specimens were collected prior to widespread application of pesticides and herbicides and before the start of nuclear testing in 1945.

澳大利亚土壤实物样本的科学参考收藏。该收藏包含超过10万份土壤标本：其中7万份已完成归档，3万份为待归档的存储标本。这些标本收藏反映了过去70年间研究重点的变化，并有望在未来延续这一趋势。

2003年土壤档案馆（Soil Archive）成立时接收的初始收藏，已通过其他机构的近期提交物以及CSIRO多个业务部门（主要为农业与食品部、土地与水资源部）当前项目的补充得以完善。研究人员可向土壤档案馆提交土壤标本，且需随附所采集的土壤数据。更多信息请参见我们的网站。

土壤档案馆的子样本收藏包含4.3万份细土（fine earth）标本（粒径<2毫米，为大型标本的10克复制品），适用于近红外光谱分析（near-infrared spectroscopic analysis）。
谱系信息：2003年，为便于未来使用而保存，来自CSIRO五个独立小型土壤标本收藏（位于布里斯班、汤斯维尔、阿德莱德、霍巴特及珀斯）的约5.5万份土壤标本被送往堪培拉。该收藏中的绝大多数标本由CSIRO采集，但自2010年起，数千份标本由其他机构捐赠，主要为州级机构。
尽管最古老的标本可追溯至1926年，但大多数标本采集于20世纪50年代以后。20世纪50年代前采集的标本缺乏所需精度的位置数据，因此若不额外重新定位相关地点，则无法归档。不过，熟悉原始出版物的研究人员可（且已）使用这些标本。这些早期标本采集于农药和除草剂广泛应用之前，以及1945年核试验开始之前。