The Nordic Microalgae website is a source of information about microalgae and related organisms in the Nordic area, i.e. the Baltic Sea, the North East Atlantic and lakes, rivers and streams in the area. This site is of use for science, education, environmental monitoring, etc. The website offers a quick view, a taxon tree, several galleries with collections of images, a forum, Nordic Microalgae checklists and tools. Developed by: Nordic Microalgae is developed and operated by the Swedish Meterological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) with funding from the Swedish LifeWatch project.

Plankton Toolbox The Plankton Toolbox is a free tool for aquatic scientists, and others, working with environmental monitoring related to phyto- and zooplankton. Features include: Import phyto- or zooplankton data in .txt and .xlsx files in different formats (configurable) Work with data on abundance, biovolume and carbon content Data screening - quality control of data Aggregate data, e.g. from species level to class level Plotting tools Statistics (in early development) Export data in .txt or .xlsx for further analyses or plotting A future update with functionality for using Plankton Toolbox as a counting tool by the microscope is planned. Developed by: Nordic Microalgae is developed and operated by the Swedish Meterological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI http://www.smhi.se/en) with funding from the Swedish LifeWatch project http://svenskalifewatch.se/. Technology or platform: The software is available as version 1.0.0 for Windows and MacOS. Version 1.0.1 is available for Windows. A Linux version will be produced upon request.