The PSA Education Committee is dedicated to promote and improve teaching and research in phycology through such activities as seminars, conferences, workshops, and production of educational materials, such as films and electronic media items; and recommend contracts to the Executive Committee for approval.
PSA Education Workshop Report
Algae and the Broader Impacts of Science by Gisele Muller-Parker and Rich Triemer, July 8, 2006 Juneau, Alaska. Download Report (PDF)
Curriculum Ideas
- Use of Algae to Determine Water Quality (PDF)
- The Effects of Nutrients on a Mini-Pond Ecosystem (PDF)
- Bridge, the Sea Grant Ocean Sciences Education Center
- Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Education Programs
- Hunt for reprints
- Coalition for Education in the Life Sciences (for undergraduate educational resources, organized by biological discipline and posted by professional societies)
- Natural Selection portal to evaluated web resources from The Natural History Museum, London
- Natural Selection is part of the BIOME integrated Internet gateways to health and life sciences
- Rutger University's COOL classroom
Videos & DVDs For Sale
- The Kingdom Protista: The Dazzling World of Living Cells (DVD)
- Diatoms (Video or DVD)
- Living Cells (Video or Videodisc)
- Microscopic life (Video)
- Reproduction in Red Algae (Video or DVD)
- Oedogoniales (DVD)
- Cellular Evolution in the Green Algae (Videodisc)
- Mitosis (VIdeo)
- The Biology of Algae
- World Seaweed Resources
Videos on the Web
- Coral reef (video clips for educational use)
- Coral reef algae
- Mangroves
- Tonicella on crustose corallines
- Nereocystis
- Spirulina
- University of South Florida's Project Oceanography
- Antarctic Algal "Forests"
Databases of Photographs
Life History Animations on the Web
- Gonyaulax, dinoflagellate life history
- Macrocystis, giant kelp life history
- Postelsia, sea palm life history
- Cystoseira, fucalean life history
Research Tools
- ARS-Medi is a free program developed by T.J. Evens and Randy Niedz. ARS-Media utilizes a linear programming (LP) optimization algorithm to determine the combination of salts, acids and bases that satisfies any given target solution of ions. This allows researchers to construct experimental designs that use ions, as opposed to salts, as independent factors. Download the free program.
Publications
- Keys to the Seaweeds and Seagrasses of Southeast Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon by P.W. Gabrielson, T.B. Widdowson & S.C. Lindstom. Phycological Contribution #7. PhycoID. July, 2006. This publication is a revision of the "Keys to the Benthic Marine Algae and Seagrasses of British Columbia, Southeast Alaska, Washington and Oregon" (Gabrielson et al. 2000). As was true in the previous edition, there have been name changes to many of the common seaweed genera and species found along the shores covered by this publication, e.g. Ulva in the green algae, Laminaria in the brown algae and Mazzaella in the red algae. Major changes in this new edition are: 1) significant revision of many of the species keys, especially in the green and red algae, and 2) the updating of names of all taxa as of May, 2006. Download order form.
ALGAE-L Listserve
This ALGAE-L listserve provides a venue for discussions on algae, information on phycological activities, and announcements. Visit Michael Guiry's Seaweed Site to subscribe to the list
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Suggestions
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