Diatoms of North America
Jonathan English
Taxon Contributor
Research Assistant Diatom Herbarium, Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia
If I had a nickel for every time someone asked me what a diatom was...
Jonathan English recently graduated from St. John's College in Annapolis, where he studied the Great Books. He was a 2007 Hodson Fellow and studied the green algae genus Coleochaete at the University of Maryland. Since beginning work at the Academy of Natural Sciences, he has worked on the diatom genera Aulacoseira and Surirella, clarifying their morphology and taxonomy. Jonathan is interested in the taxonomy, phylogeny and ecology of diatoms, especially as they relate to global species dispersion patterns and ecological barriers.
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Species contributed
Aulacoseira ambigua | Aulacoseira granulata | Aulacoseira granulata var. angustissima | Aulacoseira herzogii | Aulacoseira humilis | Aulacoseira italica | Aulacoseira lirata | Aulacoseira muzzanensis | Aulacoseira nivalis | Aulacoseira nivaloides | Aulacoseira nygaardii | Aulacoseira subarctica | Aulacoseira valida | Surirella amphioxys | Surirella angusta | Surirella atomus | Surirella brebissonii | Surirella iowensis | Surirella ovalis | Surirella pinnata | Surirella stalagma | Surirella suecica