NEW: Common Seaweeds of Point Reyes National Seashore

The Index Nominum Algarum (INA) and Bibliographia Phycologica Universalis (BPU) Read more ...

The Silva Center Library Read more ...

California Seaweed Digitization Projects

• In 2011, the University Herbarium was awarded a major grant from the National Science Foundation to image and database marine macroalgae (seaweeds) that are known to grow in California, Oregon, or Washington, wherever in the world they occur. These collections are available for viewing at: https://webapps.cspace.berkeley.edu/ucjeps/publicsearch/publicsearch

• In 2014, a collaborative NSF grant (The Macroalgal Herbarium Consortium: Accessing 150 Years of Specimen Data to Understand Changes in the Marine/Aquatic Environment) initiated the imaging and databasing of seaweed collections in herbaria throughout the United States. UC digitized collections from Humboldt State University and Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station, and is currently working on completing the imaging and databasing of its worldwide seaweed collections. To see the results of this ongoing project as they accumulate, see: http://macroalgae.org/portal/index.php

California Seaweeds eFlora

An eFlora project on California Seaweeds has been funded by a grant from the Packard Foundation. This online flora will update Abbott & Hollenberg's Marine Algae of California (1976) and provide a portal for students, ecologists, managers, and the public who wish to learn more about our 750 seaweed species.

Additions and modifications to California seaweed species list since Marine Algae of California

Common Seaweeds of Point Reyes National Seashore

KQED Quest interview of Kathy Ann Miller about the importance of seaweeds, the UC algal herbarium, and the specimen digitization project ... Watch video.

DeCew's Guide to the Seaweeds of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and Northern California Read more ...

Type specimens of algae in UC (working list)

Images of type specimens of marine algae from the Galapagos

Images of specimens of marine red algae from Antarctica

Index to the Phycotheca Boreali-Americana

Catalogue of the Benthic Marine Algae of the Indian Ocean (1996). Silva, Basson, & Moe. All published records of species and infraspecific taxa of benthic marine algae from the Indian Ocean excluding the Red Sea are assembled in a catalogue. A history of Indian Ocean phycology precedes the systematic part of the catalogue, and extensive nomenclatural notes by P.C. Silva on various taxa are included in an appendix.