Open Letter from Ric Jordan for the Hustedt Diatom Collection
This post contains the open letter adressed to the Alfred Wegener Institute regarding the fate of the Friedrich Hustedt Collection.
Questionnaire to evaluate the needs of ISDR members
You may remember that way back in May the Council provided an update on a number of Working Groups that had been formed to focus on various aspects of the Society in order to reflect on our mission, values, and engagement with our members. One of the Working Groups was tasked with evaluating the needs […]
6th Nordic-Baltic diatom intercalibration/harmonization exercise 2020
NorBAF – The NORdic-Baltic network for Benthic Algae in Freshwater is currently performing the 6th Nordic-Baltic diatom intercalibration/harmonization exercise, organized jointly by NorBAF and the Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, SLU (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences). NorBAF is a cooperation of people working with freshwater benthic algae in Scandinavia and countries around the Baltic […]
Diatom Web Academy keeps us together during COVID-19
Twice each month, Diatom Web Academy presentations present an opportunity for diatomists from around the world to meet and communicate research results, taxonomic strategies, and share useful tools.
Phycological Society of America virtual meeting
The meeting will be gratis for all, and we encourage members to let their colleagues, friends, nemeses, and acquaintances know of the events. The meeting time has been selected to permit people from many time zones to participate, so please forward widely!
Release of new version of DNA reference database for diatoms
As ecological research and biomonitoring increasingly explore and measure diatom diversity using molecular methods, it is becoming more and more crucial to ‘curate’ the sequence data in publicly available databases (such as GenBank and BOLD) to create a reliable reference database that can be used to identify High Throughput Sequencing DNA reads. This is because […]
Webinar: Directional selection observed in diatom lake records
Topic: Directional selection observed in diatom lake records from western North America Speaker: Jeffery Stone (Indiana State University) Time: June 9, 2020 10:00 AM Mountain Time (US and Canada) Description: Directional selection is a form of evolutionary change in which an extreme feature of a population is favored and, over time, the population changes to […]
Webinar: Diatom DNA
Using diatom DNA in environmental assessments: techniques and timeline to operation
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PhycoBank
PhycoBank is the registration system for nomenclatural acts (new names, new combinations and types) of algae
26th International Diatom Symposium
The biannual symposium serves as an important forum for presenting and discussing all aspects of diatom research.
Introducing the new ISDR logo
The winning design for the new ISDR logo was submitted by Lina Anh Van.
