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HELCOM EG PHYTO online meeting 17-18 April 2023

HELCOM EG PHYTO (previous name HELCOM-PEG) held an online meeting 17-18 Apri

HELCOM Expert Group of Phytoplankton (EG Phyto) meeting in Umeå 25-29 September 2023

The HELCOM Expert Group of Phytoplankton (EG Phyto)  informal consultation (IC) session will take place on 25th to 29th of September 2023

NOMP 2023 meeting on Iceland 5-7 September 2023

The yearly meeting of the Nordic Marine Phytoplankton group (NOMP) was held in Hafnafjördur, Iceland 5-7 September 2023.

Plankton Toolbox release 31 January 2023

Plankton Toolbox is available as version 1.4.0 release 31 January 2023 is available for Windows and MacOS.

Plankton Toolbox 1.4.0 released

Plankton Toolbox is available as version 1.4.0 for Windows and MacOS.

Plankton Toolbox - fix for problem with biomass in carbon

Plankton Toolbox 1.3.4 for Mac and Windows was updated. A fix for a problem with the list of biomass in carbon units was implemented.

Plankton Toolbox 1.3.4 for MacOS is available

Plankton toolbox 1.3.4 is available for MacOS.

Plankton Toolbox 1.3.4 released

Plankton toolbox 1.3.4 was released on November 22nd 2020.

NOMP 2021 virtual meeting

NOMP, the Nordic Marine Phytoplankton group is meeting 25-26 November 2021. Due to the covid pandemic the meeting is virtual.

New e-mail adress

Dear users of Nordic Microalgae,

Plankton Toolbox 1.3.3 released

Plankton toolbox 1.3.3 was released on November 26th 2020.

NOMP 2020 virtual meeting

NOMP, the Nordic Marine Phytoplankton group is meeting 26-27 November 2020. Due to the covid pandemic the meeting is virtual.

Plankton Toolbox 1.3.2 released

Plankton Toolbox 1.3.2 for Mac OSX and Windows was released on October 10th 2019.

Nordic Marine Phytoplankton workshop in Flødevigen 16-18 Sep. 2019

The NOMP 2019 meeting - the Nordic Marine Phytoplankton workshop is held at Flødevigen Research Station, Arendal, Norway, 16-18 Sep.

HELCOM PEG 2019 meeting

The HELCOM Phytoplankton Expert Group will meet in Daugavpils, Latvia, 8-12 April 2019.

Nordic Marine Phytoplankton workshop in Århus 11-12 Sep. 2018

The NOMP 2018 meeting - the Nordic Marine Phytoplankton workshop is held in Århus, Denmark, 11-12 Sep. 2018.

Plankton Toolbox 1.3.1 released

Plankton Toolbox 1.3.1 for Mac OSX and Windows was released on September 10th 2018.

Plankton Toolbox 1.3.0 released

Plankton Toolbox 1.3.0 was released on August 29th 2018. The new release includes a major update of the counting module.

Propose a new name för Swedish Lifewatch and Biodiversity Atlas Sweden

Nordic Microalgae is funded by the

HELCOM-PEG 2018 meeting

The HELCOM Phytoplankton Expert Group will meet in Gothenburg, Sweden, 9-13 April 2018.

NOMP 2018 - save the dates

Next year's NOMP workshop will be arranged in Aarhus, Denmark. Preliminary dates are 11-12 September 2018.

NOMP 2017 workshop held in Reykjavik, Iceland

NOMP 2017 - the Nordic Marine Phytoplankton Workshop was helt in Reykjavik, Iceland, 5-7 September.

Celebrating six years on the Internet

Nordic Microalgae was launched on 2 May 2011. Thus it has been active six years and one month today 2 June 2017.

Plankton Toolbox is back

The software Plankton Toolbox is available for download again.

Plankton Tooolbox temporarily unavailable

The download link for the software Plankton Toolbox is temporarily unavailable.

Nordic Microalgae has been updated

Nordic Microalgae has been moved to a new server and behind the scences software has been updated.

Nordic Microalgae is being updated

Nordic Microalgae is being updated

HELCOM-PEG 2017

The HELCOM Pytoplankton Expert Group will meet 3-7 April 2017 in St. Peterburg, Russia.

Plankton Toolbox 1.2.1 is available

Plankton Toolbox has been updated. Changes include:

Plankton Toolbox 1.2.0 available

A new version of the free software Plankton Toolbox is available for Mac and Windows. Downlaod Plankton Toolbox from the Tools menu.

NOMP 2016 meeting 15-17 November

NOMP, the NOrdic Marine Phytoplankton group will meet in Gothenburg, Sweden 15-17 November 2016.

Fossil diatom - image of distinction

The Nikon small world 2016 photomicrography competition has finished.

New top contributor

Birger Skjelbred, Norway, has contributed 361 images (status 8 April 2016) to Nordic Microalgae. He is the new top contributor.

HELCOM-PEG 2016

The HELCOM Phytoplankton Expert Group will meet 25-29 April 2016 in Warnemünde at the Leibniz Institute of Baltic Sea Research (IOW)).

New version of Plankton Toolbox

Version 1.1.1 of Plankton Toolbox was released on 3 December 2015.

Lifewatch Plankton Data Workshop

The Lifewatch Plankton Data Workshop will be arranged at SMHI in Gothenburg 8-9 December 2015.

NOMP – Nordic Marine Phytoplankton group workshop 2015

NOMP – Nordic Marine Phytoplankton group workshop 14-16 September 2015 in Arendal, Norway.

HELCOM Phytoplankton Expert Group meeting

The HELCOM Phytoplankton Expert Group will meet in Pärnu, Estonia, 13-17 April 2015.

Nordic Microalgae Committee meeting

The Nordic Microalgae Committee will meet in Drøbak, Norway, 17-19 March 2015.

Plankton Toolbox 1.0.1

Plankton Toolbox version 1.0.1 for Windows is available. Select the Tools menu.

Plankton Toolbox 1.0.0 available

Plankton Toolbox 1.0.0 is available for MacOS and Windows.

The HELCOM-PEG meeting 12-16 May 2014

The HELCOM Phytoplankton Expert Group (PEG) http://helcom.fi/helcom-at-

Twelve language start page

The start page of Nordic Microalgae and aquatic protozoa is now available in twelve languages.

Swedish Microalgae Committee meeting

The Swedish Microalgae Committee and invited guests from Norway and Denmark will meet in Lund 13-14 March.

Multi language start page

The start page is now available in all the Nordic lanugages and in English. Additional language support is planned.

Galleries for smart phones and tablets

The Galleries function is now also available for smart phones and tablets.

Image of Chaetoceros debilis winner

An image of Chaetoceros debilis by Wim van Egmond won the 2013 Nikon small world photomicrography competion.

HELCOM-PEG 2013

The biovolume information was updated with information from the 2013 version of the HELCOM-PEG list:

NOMP - Nordic Marine Phytoplankton Group

Phytoplankton specialists from the Marine Research Institute, Iceland, has joined the Scandinavian Marine Phytoplankton Group - ScaMPy.

Scandinavian Marine Phytoplankton Workshop

A Scandinavian Marine Phytoplankton Workshop was arranged 26-28 August 2013.

Nordic Microalgae in your smartphone

Nordic Microalgae is now available for smartphones and other handheld devices. Visit the mobile version.

HELCOM-PEG met in Gdynia

The HELCOM-PEG workshop and training course was held in Gdynia, Poland, 8-12 April 2013.

Sveriges Mikroalgskommitté (Swedish microalgae commitee) meeting in Göteborg 4-5 Mars.

A meeting with microalgae experts from the nordic countries discussed among other things:

NORBAF diatom intercalibration 2013

2013 is the next NORBAF diatom intercalibration – all interested experts are welcome!

Get help to identify species on the Forum

Do you have pictures on species that you need help to identify?

One year on the web

Nordic Microalgae this week celebrates one year on the web after the launch on 30 June 2011.

New functions on the website

Forum

The Swedish Microalgae Committee met in Uppsala 17 January 2012.

The Norwegian Microalgae Naming Committee met in Oslo 3 January 2012.

Cooperation with the University of Copenhagen

The Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa at the University of Copenhagen has contributed images and direct links to info

Meeting of the Finnish Phytoplankton Society

The Finnish Phytoplankton Society met 13-14 November 2011.

Swedish Microalgae Committee formed

The Swedish Microalgae Committee was formed on 18 October 2011. One of its tasks will be to help govern Nordic Microalgae.

Checklists

Checklists can now be downloaded.

Full size images

The possibility to view images in the size of the original was added.

Resting stages

Galleries for diatom resting stages, dinoflagellate cysts and other resting stages were added.

New functionality

Quickview replaces alphabetical view, filters in Quickview, the three latest images are shown on start page, galleries are functional, la

Web site on line

www.nordicmicroalgae.org is now on line, 30 June 2011.

Galleries added

Galleries were added. This feature will be used to show groups of images, e.g. from a certain area.

First version on line

The first beta version of nordicmicroalgae.org is on line.