OTHER WWW SITES WITH RESOURCES FOR NANNOPLANKTON RESEARCH

Nannotax - nannofossil database

• Nannotax - interactive database of nannofossil taxa (under development, only Neogene covered to date)

The CODENET site at the NHM

• CODENET - details of the EC TMR project "Coccolithophorid evolutionary biodiversity and ecology network"
• CoccoBiom - NIH-Image macro sets for use with nannofossils (image capture and morphometrics). (under development)
• Culture collection - this is now the largest collection of coccolithophore strains anywhere

The ETH-Zürich Site

• COCCOLITHOPHORES FROM MOLECULAR PROCESSES TO GLOBAL IMPACT
A Conference held 10-15 February 2002 at Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland. Program, images, some conclusions.
• EMIDAS - new online database of nannoplankton images from ETH
• Notes on a filtration sampling machine for nannoplankton

Mitch Covington's BugWare site

• Biostratigraphic and database software developed for use with nannos, including some free downloads
• GOM Equivalency project - images etc. from the working group trying to systematise Neogene nanno taxonomy in the Gulf of Mexico region
• SEM gallery - beautiful SEMs of exceptionally preserved Cretaceous nannofossils from the Niobrara Fm.

Wuchang Wei's Nannofossil Lab

• Online bibliography of nannofossil literature
• Nannofossil workers address database
• Details of the 7th INA Conference, Puerto Rico, February 1998, including abstracts, group photograph and video

Toby Tyrrell's EHUX site

• Coccolith structure
• Cell biology and Life-cycle
• Global impact and the GEM strategy
• Satellite images of coccolithophorid blooms

The ODP site

• Details of current ODP cruises
• ODP microfossil reference centres (see also Nanno MRC page on this site)
• Lists of nannofossil taxa, zones and datums from the JANUS database .
• Request samples for your next research project.

More links

• Nannoplankton workers' personal homepages and similar.

A few other especially relevant sites

• The ICBN - HTML version of the latest edition of the code
• Isao Inouye's Phycological Images gallery, stunning light and electron micrographs of numerous modern coccolithophores, and other phytoplankton (if you have difficulties connecting to Japan be patient, it is worth the wait)
• University College London's MIRACLE Site, includes a decent general introduction to calcareous nannofossils, with many images
• UCL MSc course the 2 week nanno module on this MSc is best available nannofossil training course.
• Chris Brown's E.huxleyi bloom monitoring project overview (including archive of maps of likely blooms).
• Nannofossils at the USGS - outline of what nannos are, links to current projects
• Checklist of phytoplankton in the Skagerrak-Kattegat from Mats Kuylenstierna & Bengt Karlson (Göteborg University) a remarkable illustrated checklist including a surprising diversity of cocolithophores - mostly colour LMs of cells.
• Shiro Nishida'sBiogeography of Nannoplanktons website, a lot of this is in Japanse but it includes some very nice SEMs of modern nannoplankton
• Lyme Regis Fossil Festival something else I am involved with.

Links to the outside world

• For Micropalaeontology - the TMS site
• For Palaeontology - Paleonet East (London), or West (California)
• For Phycology/Algology - Roger Sweet's Diatom Home Page