Advice for moderators of oral scientific sessions
MODERATOR/TIMEKEEPER RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Work together to find, meet, and greet each speaker in your session. 2. Review your introductory...
Diatoms of North America is created by and for practitioners, people who work at the microscope and people who consider diatom ecology to solve environmental problems.
Stay current with genus and species pages as they are opened to public view. The most recent updates are posted here.
Specialized resources for people working with diatoms.
MODERATOR/TIMEKEEPER RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Work together to find, meet, and greet each speaker in your session. 2. Review your introductory...
For students-of-the-diatoms who are interested in learning more, these are some of the biological features that distinguish diatoms from other...
A voucher flora is a collection of light microscope images for a defined project. This is a page for posting voucher floras, including yours....
The Level 1 certification indicates knowledge of the characteristics of diatom genera from inland North America, based on diatoms.org. The Level 2...
The taxon authorship names have been adjusted to the format established by The International Plant Names Index (IPNI). This index is the most...
There are many methods that can be used to remove organic matter from diatoms. The best method depends on the type of sample and the amount of...
Taxonomic Bias Datasets produced by different analysts are incompatible (Lee et al. 2019). Figure 1 illustrates a diatom survey, with each point...
ImageJ is a free, powerful software program. It has a handy tool for measuring diatoms from light micrographs or scanning electron micrographs. At...
As the online taxonomic and ecological resource grows, we are seeking new contributors to submit taxon pages. This project depends on the involvement...
GUIDELINES FOR SPECIES PAGE REVIEW One reviewer from the diatomist community will critique each taxon page before it becomes visible to the public....
The search function (upper left corner of each page) on Diatoms of North America allows practitioners to search for strings within a number of data...
Before starting to prepare a permanent diatom slide, organic matter must be removed from the sample. The following supplies and process are for the...
The number of striae, or other rotational elements of centric diatoms, such as fascicles, costae, spines, rimoportulae, fultoportulae and other valve...
Here, you can find links to archived genus and species pages: Achnanthidium kreigeri (prior_to_2021_09_01) Pinnularia polyonca (prior_to_2021_08)...
On each species page, in the autecology section, a series of autecology tags appear. The tags are categorical measures of diatom lifestyle and coded...
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