• Professor Mike Guiry at the National University of Ireland. This site covers the seaweed industry of Ireland and has links to information from seaweed experts everywhere. 
• Irish Research Scientists' Association 
• Natural History Museum, London 
• Daniel Jouvance - Laboratoires Biologie/Blue Sea Research 

Departments of Botany

• Department of Botany, University College, Galway 
• Department of Botany, University College, Dublin 
• Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, London 
• Department of Botany, Trinity College, Dublin 
• Department of Botany, University of Cologne 
• Department of Botany, University of Guelph 

Algae

• Craig Schneider (Trinity College) - Information on: the modelling of the branching of red algae using L-systems; the Bermuda Flora; and Vaucheria (under construction). 
• Index Nominum Algarum - Access to Paul Silva's (University of California at Berkeley) list of algal names - experimental at present and the link is temporary. 
• American Type Culture Collection 
• Brazilian National Catalogue: Algae 
• Farlow Herbarium, Harvard University: Diatom Catalog 
• World catalogue of algae collections 
• The DELTA Collaborative Multimedia Database Project published by the California State University is designed to provide faculty and students with access to a rich diversity of digital instructional materials (DIM) for self study and for use by faculty indeveloping courseware and electronic presentations for instructional purposes. Marine algae and marine grasses 
• Algae: The Forgotten Treasures of Tidepools. Very fine pictures of red, brown and green algae of Sonoma County, California. 
• Non-geniculate Coralline Algae - Guide to Crustose Coralline by Derek Keats (Botany Department, University of the Western Cape, South Africa); under construction. 
• Russell Chapman's Laboratory at LSU with pictures of epiphytic and other algae 
• NERC Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa 

Check-lists

• Checklist of phytoplankton in the Skagerrak-Kattegat.Very useful check-list with some pictures. 
• Checklist of the marine algae of the north-eastern Atlantic. From this site, a comprehensive list of the marine algae of the NE Atlantic. 
• Check-list of the marine algae of Ireland. A list of all the green, brown and red seaweeds known from Ireland, this is continuously updated. 

Seaweed - general and food

• Open-sea aquaculture 
• AlgaeTech Seaweed Solutions 
• Japan Marketplace 
• The Austin USENET Guide to Sushi 
• Seaweed Products. Institute of Marine Biosciences, National Research Council of Canada. Under construction. 
• Essential oil of Seaweed. A must for your skin. 
• Seaweed and Magnesium Nutritional Supplement. Helps to relieve stress and improve the quality of sleep so you wake up refreshed. Aids in better preparation for and recuperation after physical activity. Helps to eliminate exhaustion and assists in hydrating your body satiny soft internally. 

Phytoplankton and microalgae

• AlgaLine: Phytoplankton monitoring in the Baltic Sea, Finnish Institute of Marine Research, Helsinki 
• All-Russian Collection of Microorganisms 
• American Type Culture Collection 
• IPPAS microalgae collection, Timiryazev Institute of Plant Pathology, Moscow, Russia 
• Provasoli-Guillard Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine 
• World Federation of Culture Collections: World Data Center for Microorganisms 
• Institute of Freshwater Ecology 
• Chlamydomonas genetics 
• NERC Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa 

Phycological Societies

• International Phycological Society 
• Phycological Society of America 
• British Phycological Society 
• Phycological Society of South Africa 

Journals

• Phycologia (including Instructions for Authors) 
• European Journal of Phycology 

Newsletter

• The Phycologist (British Phycological Society) 

Seaweed cooking

• Make seaweed pudding! Irish moss is a good source of carageenan, a thickening agent used in ice cream, salad dressing, toothpaste, and paints. It's also great for puddings. Try out this recipe for Irish moss pudding! 

Cooking Seaweed with Gerry Galvin - Gerry Galvin of Drimcong House, Moycullen, Co. Galway (091-85115) is a wonderful food artist who uses natural Irish ingredients of the highest quality to prepare extraordinary meals.

Mendocino Sea Vegetable Company P.O. Box 455, Philo, CA 95466 707 895-2996 kombuko@seaweed.net