Valdosta State University
College of Arts and Sciences
Dr. James A. Nienow
Department of Biology

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After their slow start, the Chargers won 11 in a row and ended up with the second best record in the NFL and only need to win 2  games to make it to the Super Bowl.  Go Chargers!

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Contents:

• Current research projects
• General information for classes
• Information for specific courses

Biology 1010/1020	Biology 1030/1040	Biology 1107/2010
Biology 3550/555550	Biology 3000	Biology 2900

• You might also want to check the Sigma Prime page for information concerning seminars and special events on campus of interest to biology students
• Algae on the Web
• Plant Taxonomy on the Web
• Important Scientific Organizations on the Web
• NASA
• NSF
• Some fun links

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Algae on the Web

• An introduction to the algae
• The Phycological Society of America

  • For info on the 31^st Annual Southeastern Phycological Colloquy held at Valdosta State University October 16-17, 2009, see http://www.valdosta.edu/~jnienow/SEPC 2009 Information.html.

• British Phycological Society
• The International Phycological Society
• The International Society for Diatom Research
• Protist (formerly Archiv fur Protistenkunden); contents only, but a start
• The Smithsonian Institute's Algae Page (mostly macroalgae, but not bad)
• The California Academy of Sciences Diatom page
• Roger Sweet's Diatom Page (with information about diatoms and links to useful sites)
• The Automatic Diatom Indentification and Classification Page with a large, searchable, image library of diatoms
• The Euglenoid Project with lots of good pictures and taxonomic information
• Mike Guiry's Seaweed Page (with lots of useful links)
• The Coralline Algae Page
• The BGSU Center for Algal Microscopy
• Michael R. Martin's Phytoplankton Image Library
• Images from Ohio
• Images from Clemson's aquaculture facility
• Red tides and other harmful algal blooms (the dark side of algae)
• The Cyanobacteria Research Page
• Some sources of cultures
• Biotech Organisms and Strains with links to other collections
• Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa
• CCMP--Provasoli-Guillard National Center for the Culture of Marine Phytoplankton
• UTEX--The Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Texas at Ausin

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Plant and other taxonomy on the Web

• Some links to most Botany-related sites
• The Botany Department at the University of the Western Cape, with lots of interesting stuff
• UCMP Lift to any Taxon
• Green Plant Phylogeny HomePage
• The Tree of Life HomePage
• The NCBI Genetics Homepage
• The Integrated Taxonomic Information System

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Important Sources of Information about Science and Scientific Organizations

• SciCentral (with 50,000 science links)
• Magazines and other media
• Science Magazine
• Nature
• Scientific American
• Organizations (most with journals)
• Sigma Xi (source of American Scientist, good general reviews)
• The Georgia Academy of Sciences
• The Phycological Society of America
• The International Phycological Society
• British Phycological Society
• American Society for Microbiology
• American Society for Limnology and Oceanography
• North American Lake Management Society
• Ecological Society of America
• Government agencies
• NASA
• NASA's HomePage
• Space Shuttle and Space Station News
• Johnson Space Center
• Ames Research Center
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• New Mars Probes
• National Science Foundation
• Environmental Protection Agency
• National Institutes of Health
• US Forest Service
• US Fish and Wildlife Service

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Information for Classes

• General information
• EnviroFacts Pages (from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
• Quackwatch, for a sceptical look at popular science
• The Skeptical Inquirer, publishes by the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
• Snopes.com, for the truth behind urban legends and other hoaxes
• Useful Chemistry pages for background information
• Image Library of Biological Molecules
• Biology 2010/1107
• Syllabus
• Dr. Goddard's HomePage
• Lecture Notes for Unit I: Introduction
• Lecture Notes for Unit II: Cell Structure
• Lecture Notes for Unit III: Metabolism
• Lecture Notes for Unit IV: Controlling Metabolism
• Lecture Notes for Unit V: Genetics, Inheritance, and Evolution
• Selected SEM's from the microscope project
• Height, sitting height, and weight data
• Biology 1010
• Biology 1010 Syllabus
• Biology 1010--Unit 1 Lecture Notes
• Biology 1010--Unit 2 Lecture Notes
• Biology 1010--Unit 3 Lecture Notes
• Biology 1010--Unit 4 Lecture Notes
• Biology 1020 Syllabus
• Biology 1030
• Biology 1030 Syllabus
• Lecture notes for Unit 1: An introduction to science
• Lecture notes for Unit 2: The structure of living things
• Lecture notes for Unit 3: The structure of living things (continued)
• Lecture notes for Unit 4: Staying alive
• Biology 3000
• Biology 3550--Phycology
• Useful algae-related links
• Syllabus
• Lecture Notes (Part 1)
• Lecture Notes (Part 2)
• Lecture Notes (Part 3)
• Biology 2900--Microbiology in Health and Disease
• Syllabus
• Lecture Notes (Part 1)
•    Some diseases for Part 1
• Lecture Notes (Part 2)
•    Some diseases for Part 2
• Lecture Notes (Part 3)
•    Some diseases for Part 3
• Lecture Notes (Part 4)
•    Some diseases for Part 4
  

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Just for fun

• The Babylon 5 Home Page
• The SciFi Channel
• Star Wars
• A starting point for Doctor Who
• Unofficial links to Calvin and Hobbes
• Dilbert's Home Page
• And, last, but not necessarily least, and not necessarily forever, the San Diego Chargers and the San Diego Padres--just wait until next year

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Current research interests

• Ecology of microorganisms in extreme (dry) environments
• Ecology of photosynthetic microorganisms in southern Georgia
• Diatoms of coastal Florida and Georgia
• Diatoms of the Galapagos Islands
• Pavilion Lake microbialites
• Applied microbiology/phycology

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Reference http://www.valdosta.edu/~jnienow/
Dr. J. A. Nienow, jnienow@valdosta.edu