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GenePools sign-up form

If you'd like to take part in the GenePools project, please fill out the form below. We'll then send you all sampling kit, instructions and a pre-paid return envelope.

Please note:

  • For this phase, only people in Bristol, London, Newcastle, City of Manchester, Plymouth and Cambridge, and some surrounding postcode areas, can take part. Please see the questions below to check that your location is part of the study area.
  • You must be able to post your sample to us by 15 July 2024.
  • After sampling, please complete the post-sample survey (a link will appear here later), otherwise your sample will not be processed.
  1. You and your pond
  2. About you

2. If you have more than one pond to sample, you will need one kit per pond. Please select the number of ponds you will sample. The maximum number of kits you can request is five. If you need any more, please email communityscience@nhm.ac.uk with 'GenePools' in your subject line.

Project Evaluation. Outcomes for participants in our projects are important to us. To this end, please answer the following questions for us to evaluate this.

Data consent: please read the following two consent statements and tick the boxes if you agree. It is necessary to confirm your consent in order to take part.

 

Your personal data
The personal data we collect from you will be held by Natural History Museum for the duration of the project only - until no later than 31 March 2025. The personal data we collect is only used to contact you about this project, either by Natural England, the Natural History Museum and CEFAS.

Sample data

I confirm that I understand that Natural England own the sample from, and information about, the pond that I submit (‘the data’), including any and all intellectual property rights associated with, or arising from, the data now or in the future. Natural England may share the samples and data about the pond with similar organisations (with the pond location anonymised to the first four digits of the postcode), and may publish such data publicly under the Open Government Licence. Sensitive species will be suitably obfuscated.

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About GenePools

GenePools is funded by Natural England, through their work within the Defra DNA Centre of Excellence, as part of the Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment Programme (NCEA).

NCEA is a transformative programme to understand the extent, condition and change over time of environmental assets across England’s land and water environments, supporting the government’s ambition to improve the environment within a generation.