Cambridge and Oxford join forces to unlock over a million biological records for climate research

Cambridge and Oxford join forces to unlock over a million biological records for climate research Jacqueline Garget Wed, 07/15/2026 - 09:06 Cambridge is awarded £772,000 for the project, part of DiSSCo UK (Distributed System of Scientific Collections UK) - a £155 million national programme to digitise and connect the UK’s natural science collections. Together, the universities of Cambridge and Oxford steward over 12 million specimens – the largest natural science collection in the UK outside London and Edinburgh. Over the next two years they will establish a strategic network, called the Centr