01 December 2021
REMINDER: ISDR meeting Thursday 2 December
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News
Stay current with the Diatoms of North America project and share your news and events. Learn about activities, workshops, conferences and courses related to diatoms.
26 November 2021
Diatom Web Academy 2021
The Diatom Web Academy continues... Sessions are recorded and can be accessed for later viewing. You are invited to join us, wherever you may be,...
16 November 2021
WEBINAR: Application of diatom multi-metric indices to state monitoring data
Application of diatom multi-metric indices to state monitoring data Description: Diatoms are sensitive to changes in environmental conditions and...
09 November 2021
WEBINAR: Diatoms of the intertidal environments of Willapa Bay, Washington as a sea-level indicator
Description: We explore the modern relationship between coastal benthic diatoms and elevation as an analog for reconstructing past relative sea-level...
05 November 2021
Where can I buy diatoms?
Living diatom cells can be isolated from their surrounding assemblage of cells and in kept alive in cultures. Culture collections have staff that do...
26 October 2021
WEBINAR: Genus-level, trait-based multimetric indices for diatom assessment of rivers and streams across the conterminous U.S.
Description: Taxonomic inconsistency in diatom datasets can constrain use of diatoms as biological indicators in aquatic assessments. This talk...
28 September 2021
WEBINAR: Applications of diatom sedimentary DNA in paleoecology
Description: Kathleen presented published and new data from analyses using ancient sedimentary DNA to track changes in diatom communities during...
27 September 2021
What has changed?
Here, you can find links to archived genus and species pages: Achnanthidium kreigeri (prior_to_2021_09_01) Pinnularia polyonca (prior_to_2021_08)...
14 September 2021
How does diatoms.org differ from other important/valuable/commonly used online algal databases?
Diatoms of North America (diatoms.org) is a collaborative effort to discover and document the diversity of diatom species across the continent. This...
20 July 2021
WEBINAR: Keeled diatoms
Description: Keeled diatoms refer to a broad, informal morphological group of taxa with raphes in a canal often raised on a keel. But what is a keel?...
21 June 2021
WEBINAR: Is everything everywhere? Diatom community ecology meets biogeography
Is everything everywhere? Diatom community ecology meets biogeography Description: Determining the mechanisms of community assembly forms the...
08 June 2021
WEBINAR: The genus Diploneis
Description: The diatom genus Diploneis is composed predominantly of marine forms with some freshwater lineages, which are all highly diverse in...
