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Phycological Newsletter a Publication of the Phycological Society of America PHYCOLOGICAL NEWSLETTER A PUBLICATION OF THE PHYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Volume 40 Number 1 Winter/Spring 2004 Editors: INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Alison R. Sherwood Morgan L. Vis Dept. of Botany Env. & Plant Biology PSA 2004 announcement 1 Univ. of Hawaii Ohio University Kindrogan Freshwater Algae Course 1 Honolulu, HI 96822 Athens, OH 45701 New Book 2 Email: [email protected] Lose the Wax Paper! 2 Collection Transfer to UC 2 Meeting Announcements 3 Obituary 3 GRAS status for Spirulina 3 PSA 2004 - Williamsburg, Virginia Phycological Trailblazer 4 No. 20 Johannes Reinke The 58th annual meeting of the Phycological Computer assisted algal identification 6 Society of America will be held August 7-12, 2004 in Phytoplankton time series data available 7 Williamsburg, Virginia. All activities will take place at Summer Course Offering 8 the Williamsburg Hospitality House, which is across the street from the College of William and Mary and a long two blocks away from Colonial Williamsburg. The meeting will include symposia on progress in the green A Week Identifying Algae in the algae and on phycological history, a workshop on algae in education, contributed paper and poster sessions, and Countryside of Scotland a variety of festive social events. Event details will be This past summer I had the wonderful privilege of published in the April issue of the Journal of Phycology attending a freshwater algae identification course in the and on a meeting web page that will be active on the Perthshire region of Scotland. The course was held at PSA web site (www.psaalgae.org) by March 1, 2004. Both the Kindrogan Field Centre, only ten miles from the quaint meeting registration and abstract submission will be little town of Pitlochry. Set back in the hills alongside a available via the World Wide Web through links from farm, it was a beautiful getaway to concentrate on the the meeting web site. morphology and taxonomy of all groups of freshwater algae. The course is designed for people with various Education Symposium planned for PSA 2004 levels of phycological knowledge who desire to augment their algae identification skills. Participants included The PSA Education Committee hosted a sym- hobbyists, an artist, water company professionals and a posium workshop titled: Using Algae as Model Organ- graduate student. The weeklong course was packed with isms in Education at the Phycological Society of days of lectures, collecting and looking through the America’s 57th annual meeting in Gleneden Beach, Or- microscope, then topped off with algal discussions in egon June 14-18, 2003. The symposium consisted of oral the Kindrogan bar. Collection trips involved the presentations on how pedagogical advances and meth- surrounding area and samples were taken from various ods have improved our teaching approaches in phycol- habitats including fast moving streams flowing from ogy. The symposium was a success thanks to all of the highland peat bogs, standing waters of lakes and ponds, outstanding teaching tools our participants presented. and even roadside ditches and bird baths. Some We are now seeking participants for the PSA Conference discoveries that were personal highlights included the in 2004. We would like to present a workshop/sympo- freshwater red algae Lemanea fluviatilis and Audouinella sium combination. If you are interested please contact hermannii. Additionally, this course solidified that the the committee chair (Roy Lehman) at extensive morphological diversity of desmids and [email protected]. We have funds available diatoms never ceases to amaze me. During one collecting to defer expenses of participants. excursion we were trained on how to 1 OLLECTION RANSFER TO ERBARIUM retrieve a lost plankton net without getting wet, a skill C T UC H that may come in handy for any aquatic biologist. The Within the next two months, all algae in the herbarium week was capped off with an evening of algal charades, of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County which turned out to be mentally, and physically, (LAM) will be transferred to the University Herbarium, challenging. The course instructors, Dr. Eileen Cox and University of California, Berkeley (UC). The algae comprise Dr. Elliot Shubert, made the experience quite enjoyable about 60,000 specimens housed in 39 herbarium cases. and worthwhile. This was an excellent opportunity to Among them, collections made by William Randolph meet other people with various algal interests and to Taylor and E. Yale Dawson during expeditions sponsored exercise identifying the diverse groups, and I greatly by Captain Allan Hancock are of greatest importance encourage the attendance of others with algal interests. because they include many holotypes. These collections were originally housed at the Allan Hancock Foundation Hilary A. McManus (AHFH), University of Southern California, but were Ph.D. Student transferred to LAM in 1988. All algae in the herbarium of Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT California (RSA), were transferred to LAM at about the USA same time. The LAM collections will be available for consultation or borrowing shortly after their arrival in Berkeley. Outstanding loans from LAM, when returned, should be sent directly to the following address: Collections Manager, University Herbarium, Room 1001 Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2465. Paul C. Silva, Curator of Algae, UC Lose the Wax Paper! For those of you still pressing macroalgae (even if only vouchers for molecular studies), it’s time to use up the Reynolds Cut-rite wax paper on your lunchtime sandwiches. My experience is that in particular Dictyota spp., many gooey reds, Delesseriaceae, Halymeniales, and filamentous greens stick better to the wax paper after their Algae class experiencing first-hand how to time in the plant drier than the herbarium paper on which retrieve a plankton net lost amongst Chara you are trying to affix them! Old muslin (cotton) sheets in Loch Kinardochy, Scotland. are still preferred by some (e.g., MICH), but I’ve come up with a better and more economical solution: reusable poly- foam packing sheets. Nothing seems to stick to this wax paper alternative. Poly-foam is a low-density white polyethylene foam sheet that is used in packaging, and NEW BOOK! PROTISTOLOGY can be found as “foam wrap” in most packaging catalogs Klaus Hausmann, Norbert Hülsmann or on-line. You can purchase the poly-foam in large rolls & Renate Radek (2000') cut to 12" (30.5 cm) and then perforated every 18" (45.5 cm) so they can be ripped off to herbarium sheet 3rd compl. rev. edition. 2003. 388 p., 384 figs., 22 tab. sizes. I’ve found the 1/32" or 1/64" thickness the best, as EUR 64.00 hardcover (ISBN 3-510-65208-8) thicker polyfoam takes longer to dry the algae in the drier. EUR 49.00 student edition (ISBN 3-510-65209-6) If you order this product on-line you may need to buy 4-6 rolls, but if you go to a local packing company (MailBox For more information see: USA, UPS, &c.), you may be able to convince them to sell http://www.schweizerbart.de/pubs/books/es/ you just one roll ($30-40). Alternatively, on your way hausmannhu-181200304-desc.html through Hartford stop in and rip of a few hundred sheets from one of my 4 huge rolls. One roll is a lifetime supply American distributor: for any lab! Balogh International, Inc. 1911 North Duncan Road Craig Schneider, Trinity College, Hartford 2 HAVE YOU RENEWED YOUR PSA SPIRULINA (Arthrospira platensis) COMPLETES MEMBERSHIP FOR 2004? FDA GENERALLY RECOGNIZED AS SAFE (GRAS) NOTIFICATION PROCESS Visit the website at www.psaalgae.org and follow the directions to renew online or get an application Spirulina is a dried form of the common blue- form. Questions? green microalga (Cyanobacteria), Arthrospira platensis. Cultivated in the United States by Earthrise Nutritionals Write Rick McCourt at [email protected]. of California and Cyanotech Corporation of Hawaii, Spirulina is marketed as a food and nutritional supplement and is noted for its content of fatty acids, vitamins, beta-carotene, zeaxanthin, phycocyanin and MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS vegetable protein. Northeast Algal Symposium (NEAS) In March 2003, Earthrise and Cyanotech 24-25 April 2004 Univ. of Connecticut at Avery Point submitted a joint notice to the FDA reporting their Northwest Algal Symposium (NWAS) determination, through scientific procedures, that the 23-25 April, 2004 Bamfield Mar. Sci, Ctr, BC Canada Spirulina cultivated by both companies is GRAS for XVIIIth International Seaweed Symposium addition to a variety of foods. Conclusion of the 20 - 25 June 2004 Bergen, Norway notification procedure (by the FDA’s written response) 26th Annual Southeastern Phycological Colloquy provides assurance to food manufacturers and 22-24 October 2004 Dauphin Is., Alabama consumers that the FDA has had an opportunity to 11th International Conference on Harmful Algae Blooms review the scientific safety evaluation of Spirulina for 14-19 November 2004 Captown, South Africa its intended use in specialty food bars, powdered nutritional drink mixes, snacks such as popcorn, and For more information on these and other conferences, please as a condiment in salads and pasta, and has no see http://www.psaalgae.org/news/news.html objection to the notification. This makes Spirulina (Arthrospira platensis) to be the first microalga to have GRAS status. DIATOM SAMPLES NEEDED! For further details concerning the FDA letter Dr A. Deyhle and Prof. Ralph Lewin are determining the boron please refer to the following FDA website: content of diatom walls, and would appreciate any samples www.cfsan.fda.gov/~rdb/opa-g127.html. that you can “sacrifice” (100-500 mg dry weight) of For details about the scientific aspect of the phytoplankton and/or cultured cells. Information on species, submission please contact [email protected] or source, medium, temperature, pH, etc.
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