Taxon Contributors
Contributors produce comprehensive documentation on diatoms, leading to consistent and correct taxonomy.
The burgeoning new white consciousness about Black lives, though significant and encouraging, is not an ending, but a beginning. - Erin Aubry Kaplan
The burgeoning new white consciousness about Black lives, though significant and encouraging, is not an ending, but a beginning. - Erin Aubry Kaplan
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Let us begin.
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Diatoms of North America is a collaborative work in progress, growing and changing as science advances.
Taxa by Morphology
New to diatoms? Jump into diatom identification using the visual key.
Editorial Review Board
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What are Diatoms?
Diatoms are single-celled algae that live nearly everywhere there is water - streams, ponds, lakes, oceans, and even soils.
For practitioners
Taxon
Identification Guide
Genera
Classification information, citations, links and species listings for 164 genera completed to date.
Species
Identification guides, original descriptions, citations, autecological information and more for 977 species and growing.
We encourage new contributors to submit taxon pages.
This project depends on many people to document the diverse diatom flora of streams, rivers, wetlands, lakes, springs, soils, estuaries and coastal zones.
Recent News & Projects
09 July 2020
Diatom Web Academy
We are expanding the number of webinars in the Diatom Web Academy during the pandemic. Most sessions (but not all) will be recorded and can be...
09 July 2020
WEBINAR: Navigating diatom nomenclature
Navigating diatom nomenclature Description: We use scientific names to describe and identify our diatoms. This workshop will introduce everyone...
23 June 2020
WEBINAR: What is a diatom species?
Description: Beginning with Linnaeus, scientists and philosophers have developed many concepts in response to the question, “what is a...
Diatoms of North America has been developed in part with the generous funding and support of US EPA, USGS, the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at University of Colorado Boulder and other organizations.
