Useful links
General
Central Web resource for those interested in, or actively conducting research on, the diatoms and related algae.
Sign up to the DIATOM-L listserv - a forum for discussion of all matters diatomaceous or microscopically siliceous.
Microfossil Image Recovery and Circulation for Learning and Education.
Diatom pages at Microscopy-UK
Courses
Diatom courses run by the Natural History Museum
Short course at the ECRC, London.
Field and laboratory study of freshwater diatoms; techniques in collection, preparation, and identification of diatom samples.
Groups and Societies
The site for the Association des Diatomistes de Langue Française and for the annual meeting of French-speaking diatomists ADLaF.
The site for the annual meeting of Central European (formerly German-speaking) diatomists.
Diatom Collections and Databases
European project on Automatic Diatom Identification And Classification.
An information system for micro algal biodiversity: a synthesis of taxonomic, molecular and ecological information.
This site is part of an ongoing effort to discriminate between Antarctic species that are relatively recent invaders from those that are relicts of a warmer past.
Benthic diatom communities of the sublittoral zone of Brittany and of Lesser Antilles
A site for taxonomists interested in the diatom collections of Hanna, Sovereign, Abbot, van Landingham, W. I. Firth etc.
The illustrated checklist of phytoplankton in the Skagerrak-Kattegat,
Diatom Assessment of River Ecological Status
A coded checklist of diatom names developed a the ECRC.
The Ehrenberg collection at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Diatom images and ecological information for palaeolimnologists
Diatom monitoring of coastal water quality with diatom ecological information and images.
OMNIDIA software for diatom-based water quality assessment.
Diatom and algal pages at the RBGE.
Phycology sections at the The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Hosts an Algal Image Database, the Diatom Paleolimnology Data Cooperative, and links to databases of diatom ecological information.
Based on Hustedt´s very large collection from all kinds of habitats worldwide.
UK river diatom identification guide. This is a web-based flora for UK river diatoms. It contains the images and web pages that underpin the UK river diatom multiaccess key.
Books and Journals
Specialist North American distributor.
Serach under Journals
Academic publications on botany and zoology
Scientic book distributor and publisher.
Journal of the International Phycological Society
Journal of the Japanese Society of Phycology
Journal of the The Japanese Society of Diatomology
Commercial
Video clips from “Diatoms: life in glass houses”.
Klaus Kemp’s site for beautiful arranged and test slides and CDs.