Please share with anyone you think might benefit :) Created by Phycological Society of America Education Committee (webpage here)

Project to collect photos of kelp forests and sea grass meadows. Contributors add their own photos or those from literature.

Paper outlining how to teach breadth biodiversity courses using phylogenies as frameworks (as opposed to taxonomic ranks like "class"). Has cool idea for mapping what you've eaten across the tree of life. Would be really cool to adapt to algae (How many types of algae have you eaten? And map onto phylogenies)

Easily adaptable to algae. Botany Depot site features teacher instructions, student instructions, editable bingo card and class lecture materials. A really great resource (site also has other activities to adapt to algae)

Natural History Collections Portal (iDigBio & BLUE)

free (for non-commercial use)

$4 US (basic) – $30 US (for deluxe kit with specimen tools)

Up to 140x magnification. Currently being used in an introductory evolution & biodiversity undergraduate course (Dr. Katy Hind) and does work well for seaweeds, both macro and diatoms tested so far.

https://utex.org/collections/utex-teaching-kits/teaching-kits

Several educational programs including a week-long K12 module called Algae Academy (requires an application, but if accepted supplies are sent free to the educator), a teacher-training workshop, and funding to attend the Algae Biomass summit.

Pacific, N.America (but adaptable)

Topics include biodiversity & abundance in marine water, managing ocean data with R, plotting data with R, diel vertical migration of zooplankton

National Agriculture in the Classroom

Students will use the scientific method to learn about the growth properties of algae and how algae production may be a possible solution to address the global energy crisis. Students will utilize the engineering design process to apply their knowledge about algae growth to create a bioreactor for algae production and discover if biofuel can be made from algae.

Science Education Resource Center @ Carlton College

This professional development material is for teachers of middle and high school students about Volvox development and how they can work with students to help scientists study the evolution of multicellularity by screening mutant Volvox.

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

English + 10+ major languages

SimRiver is a simulation software package developed by Dr. Shigeki Mayama of Tokyo Gakugei University and his coworkers. Users can study and understand the relationship between human activity, river environments and diatoms easily.

Y (to download)

It has a good collection of seaweeds from the Canadian Arctic and along both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The freshwater diatom collection has a strong representation from eastern North America and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Specimens from around the world can be found in the collection. Water quality parameters are available for selected segments of the collection.

It also includes species from slightly brackish water and some marine blue-green algae (cyanobacteria), but diatoms are not included. The only colourless forms included are dinoflagellates (Dinophyta).

Biodiversity Heritage Library Flickr Site

Under the Photostream tab, you can search for specific terms. Terms of "algae", "diatom", "seaweed", "fucus" all return many beautiful algal illustrations. When looking at a specific image, you can see the link to the publication and from there access other algal content that may not have been returned by the search. All images are available for educational purposes and indicate specific rules regarding other uses.

Phyto'pedia is an online encyclopaedia of common phytoplankton from the coast of British Columbia, Canada.

"This course will cover what algae are, why they are important, and why we are interested in them for both their environmental benefit, as well as their use for products. You will also explore the vast diversity of algae including the characteristics and applications of some of the main types of algae that are in commercial use today."

https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=9e6fca29791b428e827f7e9ec095a3d7

Algae: the world’s most important “plants”—an introduction

Pacific, Atlantic and Caribean (México)

Sección de Algas del Herbario de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

http://sistemas.fciencias.unam.mx/~macroalgas/macroalgas_verdes/index.php

Manaaki Whenua Landcare Researech, NZ

Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research

Benthische Algen ohne Diatomeen und Characeen - Feldführer and Bestimmungshilfe

Benthic, soft bodied algae are used in Germany to assess the ecological status of rivers. To support employees in the regional water management authorities, the North Rhine Westphalia State Agency for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection (LANUV NRW) published two books: one is a detailed description of the field work (“field guide”). The other book (“identification help”) focuses on the species identification by means of microscopic analysis. It contains information about almost 200 taxa (on species or genus level) of benthic soft algae from different algal classes. All taxa are presented by text, by microscopic pictures and by drawings. Identification is possible by dichotomous key. Both books are written in German. However they contain many pictures that may be a valuable help for everyone interested in benthic soft algae. The publications can be ordered directly from the LANUV homepage or ordered at a very reasonable price as paperback.

By Antje Gutowski and Julia Foerster. Second book: https://www.lanuv.nrw.de/fileadmin/lanuvpubl/4_arbeitsblaetter/40009.pdf

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

7 mins; The University Herbarium at the University of California - Berkeley boasts one of the largest and oldest collections of seaweed in the United States, dating back to the time of the U.S. Civil War. Kathy Ann Miller, a curator at the herbarium, is leading a massive project to digitize nearly 80,000 specimens of seaweed collected from the west coast of North America. When the project is finished, researchers from around the world will be able to go online and see the digital photographs along with collection information and a map of where the seaweeds were originally collected.

Isabella Abbott article (Amy Poehler's Smart Girls website)

4 mins; Super cool scale shown by including sewing pin and Volvox swimming around it. Can also buy many microscopy video resources http://www.cytographics.com/index.html Cytographics also has a photo gallery of microbial algae here: http://www.cytographics.com/sg.html

User can control camera view the full 360 degrees to view kelp, understory macroalgae, water surface, etc. A very immersive underwater experience.

https://www.youtube.com/user/MontereyBayAquarium/videos

From webpage: a few projects to try to create a greater sense of interest in microbial diversity using arts and crafts. This includes some short movies about microbial diversity and the people studying it, as well as art shows focusing on microbial forms, and easy instructions to create your own 1600’s Leeuwenhoek microscope (suitable for all ages) that makes learning about and using microscopes more engaging.

Off the coast of southern California, Catalina Island is known as one the greatest places in the world to see Kelp Forests.

This film shows fascinating seaweed aquacultures and their potential to provide sustainable marine food. We experienced seaweed farming and processing in northern Europe and Asia.

Microalgae (Coccolithophores)

The Tools of Science is a series of educational videos and hands on lessons designed to help students explore the nature and process of science. These short videos are designed to introduce the science and engineering practices from the point of view of practicing scientists. The videos focus on the research of Drs. Kay Bidle and Kim Thamatrakoln of virus infections of coccolithophores in the North Atlantic. The videos are meant to illustrate the non-linear, cyclical nature of the scientific process and the creative vision and skills needed to conduct cutting-edge, impactful scientific research. They have been used successfully in both undergraduate and high school classrooms. For the K-12 community, these videos and associated materials have been produced to support the implementation of the Science Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The long-term aim of this project is to produce supporting material (lesson plans, discussion prompts, and demonstrations) to complement each of the eight NGSS practices.

This video explores the latest research on the discovery, documentation, laboratory analyses, and deposition of new species of algae from mesophotic coral ecosystems in Hawaii

Global (maybe mostly US and Europe)

(mostly features men and very few examples of non-white phycologists, but one of the biggest lists of phycologists in one place)

Great photos of early 20th century students in the field, video at end showing modern student class from Friday Harbour visiting former field station site.

Imploding kelp: A gas-filled float keeps bull kelp aloft, but in the high pressure environment of the sea, it can only take so much.