Links to Other Algal Websites

Societies and Journals

• Algal Biomass Association
• Journal of Phycology
• International Phycological Society 
• Northwest Algal Symposium
• International Seaweed Association
• British Phycological Society
• International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae (ISSHA)
• International Society for Diatom Research  
• The Australasian Society for Phycology and Aquatic Botany
• The Brazilian Society of Phycology
• Association of Systematics Collections
• Association des Diatomistes de Langue Francaise
• Hungarian Algological Society
• Pan American Marine Biotechnology Association
• International "Fossil Algae" Association
• The international journal "Protistology"
• 'Protist' (formerly Archiv fuer Protistenkunde)
• Algological Studies
• Nova Hedwigia
• International Journal of Algae
• Phycological Research
• Botanica Marina
• Aquaculture Association of Canada
• The journal, Harmful Algae
• Harmful Algae News

Culture & Museum Collections

• Hawaiian Algal Database
• Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Cologne
• Coimbra Collection of Algae
• The Culture Collection of Algae & Protozoa
• Culture Collection of Algae at Goettingen University
• The Fritsch Collection of Illustations of Freshwater Algae
• The Diatom Collection of the California Academy of Sciences
• The Friedrich Hustedt Diatom Collection
• American Type Culture Collection
• Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton
• SVCK-Culture Collection of Conjugatophyceae
• UTEX Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Texas at Austin
• University of Toronto Culture Collection of Algae and Cyanobacteria
• Database of algae in the University of Girona Herbarium

Algae by location

• Australia
• Bermuda: Flora
• Fiji: Checklist of marine algae
• French Polynesia
• Great Britain: John Ralfs' The British Desmidieae 1848
• Great Britain: The Coded List of Freshwater Algae of the British Isles
• Indian Ocean Catalogue of Benthic Marine Algae
• Ireland: Excellent web with databases and images
• Checklist of phytoplankton in the Skagerrak-Kattegat
• Portugal: Seaweeds (Portal das Macroalgas Portuguesas)
• Sweden: Diatoms from the Swedish west coast
• USA California: Hopkins Marine Station
• USA Connecticut: Vaucheria from Connecticut
• USA Connecticut, George Safford Torrey Herbarium database
• USA Great Lakes Diatoms
• USA Hawaii
• USA Hawaii: algae associated with sea turtles
• USA Michigan fresh water algae
• USA Ohio: algal images for teaching and ecological data
• USA West Coast: PISCO Marine Algae Database of images
• World Data Center for Microorganisms
  

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Fossil algae

• Early Cretaceous Calcareous Algae
• PETRALGA (Permian and Triassic Algae) Project
• Early Cretaceous Tethyan Stratigraphy

Algae by taxa

• Charophytes: The International Research Group
• Chlorophyceae: University of California Museum of Paleontology
• Chromista University of California Museum of Paleontology
• Corallines: The Coralline News
• Cyanobacteria
• Desmids
• Desmids: John Ralfs' The British Desmidieae 1848
• Desmid Information and photos
• Desmids: Phosphorus uptake and growth kinetics in lakes.
• Diatoms: The Ellis and Messina "Catalogue of Diatoms"
• Diatom Catalog, Farlow Herbarium, Harvard University
• Diatoms from the Swedish west coast
• Diatoms: and other algal Images
• Diatoms: Great Lakes
• Diatoms: Automatic Identification And Classification Project
• Dinoflagellates: Latz Research Laboratory on dinoflagellates and bioluminescence
• Dinoflagellates University of California Museum of Paleontology
• Green algae: University of California Museum of Paleontology
• Phytoplankton Image Library by Michael R. Martin
• Phytoplankton: Harmful Algae
• Pseudo-nitzschia and domoic acid references
• Red Algae University of California Museum of Paleontology
  
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General Links

• Regulations for harvesting seaweeds on the west coast of North America
• Reprint Hunter - find colleagues in order to request reprints
• Index Nominum Algarum Paul Silva's list of algal names
• Silica secchi disk
• Guide to Pressing Seaweeds
• SeaWeb Aquaculture Clearinghouse (developments in industry, government, academia and more)
• algaeBASE
• Coalition for Education in the Life Sciences is a national coalition of professional societies that have joined together to improve undergraduate education in the life sciences with links to dozens of undergraduate education resources, organized by biological discipline and posted by professional societies.
• Natural Selection is a gateway to quality evaluated Internet resources in the natural world, coordinated by The Natural History Museum, London.
• Natural Selection is part of BIOME, an integrated gateway to health and life sciences websites.
• Reed Mariculture marine microalgae for aquaculture
• THE WALL, cellular extracellular matrix
• Flow cytometry in the aquatic sciences
• Cytographics algal videos, preparation of live cells
• Videos
• "A phylogenetic survey of photosynthetic organisms" (web-based multimedia course)
• Modelling using L-systems
• Smithsonian Institution Algae Web (general information on algae, recent publications, and collections)

Other resources for phycologists and students.

Last updated: May. 04, 2009