07 December 2022
Sarah Crump Graduate Fellowship
Unfortunately, Sarah was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer in April 2022. After a hard-fought battle, the cancer spread, and she...
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07 December 2022
Winter Solstice Party
The International Society for Diatom Research (ISDR) is sponsoring an online Winter Solstice Party on December 21, 6:00 PM eastern (US and Canada)....
07 December 2022
Diatom Web Academy 2023
We are back and looking ahead to spring 2023! Would you like to be part of Diatom Web Academy? We welcome participation by diatomists at every...
05 December 2022
Diatom Web Academy 2022
Announcing the fall series... Sessions are recorded and can be accessed for later viewing. You are invited to join us, wherever you may be, from...
22 November 2022
WEBINAR: Taxonomy of needle-shaped Fragilaria to support a long-term monitoring program
Description: Phytoplankton play an important role in the monitoring of the Laurentian Great Lakes (USA), the world’s largest freshwater lake...
15 November 2022
More than just hitchikers...
The Iroquois people of North America believed that the earth rested on the back of a giant turtle swimming around in a vast ocean. It sounds...
08 November 2022
WEBINAR: If you think there are cryptic species, it’s because you don’t understand species concepts
Description: There are many claims in the literature of “morphological species” subdivided by “molecular cryptic species”. But both “morphological...
25 October 2022
WEBINAR: Making Ecology Legible
Description: Nature is usually pictured as a landscape scene, or a botanical detail— but what happens when you want to show the invisible or...
11 October 2022
WEBINAR: Establishing a diatom flora library of the South Platte River from Denver to Platteville, Colorado
Description: The South Platte River headwaters are located within the Colorado Mosquito Mountain Range. This river travels 380 miles throughout the...
30 September 2022
Following on the North American Diatom Symposium
26th North American Diatom Symposium This year's gathering included the traditional posters, presentations, field trip, auction, and scum run, and...
30 September 2022
WEBINAR: Didymo outbreaks in Minnesota's North Shore streams
The diatom Didymosphenia geminata, also called "didymo" for short, has long been considered a cold-water, low nutrient indicator found in low...
24 August 2022
Radiance of the Abyss
Over 600 students from Grades 7 and 8 from across the province of Nova Scotia participated in hands on, inquiry based, career related STEAM (STEM...
