Links to other sites
Diatom research at the AWI:
- Ecology of key diatom species of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
- Diatom biomechanics, bionics and diatom-inspired construction
- Diatoms as palaeo-proxies
- Ecophysiology of Southern Ocean diatoms
Diatom and phycological societies:
- International Society for Diatom Research
- Association des diatomistes de Langue Francaise
- Central European (earlier German speaking) Diatomists
- Federation of European Phycological Societies
- British Phycological Society
- Phycological Society of America
Diatom collections on the web:
- Diatom Collections of the Natural History Museum London
- Diatom Collection of the Californian Academy of Science
- Diatom Herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
- National Algae Collection and database for Canada
- Pantocsek Collection at the Hungarian Natural History Museum
- Van Heurck Collection
- David Mann's collection at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (also providing information on the Grunow and Geitler collections held in Vienna)
- Farlow Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany
- Algae Aquae Dulcis Japonicae Exsiccatae
- International Survey of Diatom collections (by Hein de Wolf and Frithjof Sterrenburg, 2003)


