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Introducing the Diatom Web Academy, first of its name (that I know of)! By: Sylvia Lee, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency   I currently have the fun and exciting role of serving as chair of the Society for Freshwater Science’s Diatom Taxonomic Certification Committee. The biggest motivation for this group is to develop a program that helps federal and state resource managers in the US obtain diatom data that are accurate, consistent, and reliable for use in biological assessments. While creating certification exams is a key part of our mission, our work doesn’t stop there! We realized that we have an opportunity to develop a program that supports and provides training, communication, and community-building among diverse groups of people interested in studying diatoms and applying diatom data to protect our important aquatic resources. All of these efforts together have the potential to advance the field of diatom research. With better data and better s...

  by Nick Schulte, with contributions from DOM editorial board   Since our last post we welcomed in a new year and a new decade, so we want to take the opportunity to reflect on some of the great diatom science from the 2010s. This month Nick Schulte, with input from the rest of the DOM editorial board, put into the spotlight a paper or project per year to give an idea of some of the impressive, diverse science our community - from early-career researchers to senior diatomists - developed in the last decade.   2010: Diatoms of the United States (a.k.a. Diatoms of North America)   Spaulding, S. A., Lubinski , D. J., & Potapova , M. (2010). Diatoms of the United States.   The start of the decade brought us a project that is still, in 2020, changing the way we identify diatoms and understand diatom taxonomy and ecology. Diatoms of the United States (now Diatoms of North America) really began from the course materials produ...