Pinnularia streptoraphe: Leszek Wolnik

A resource which seeks to both gather and provide information about diatoms in Ireland

 We welcome any data, images or links that will help us to build a complete and useful resource. All data and images submitted will be acknowledged and copyrighted in the author's name.

Our aims are to:-

To build, maintain and correct this database by encouraging the forwarding of data for inclusion on the site.

To provide a checklist for Irish diatoms based on current taxonomy and we would welcome and encourage the correction of any errors we have made.

To build an overview of species distribution through mapping of sample locations and providing species lists for mapped samples.

To amass samples and slides to form a representative collection of Irish diatoms and to make this collection available for research.

A catalogue will be published in due course!

When you put your hand in a flowing stream,

you touch the last of what has gone before

and the first of what is yet to come.

  - Leonardo di Vinci (The Notebooks, 1508-18)

This site is dedicated to Klaus Kemp.