Online Microscopy Magazines

• Microbe Hunter

• Micscape

• Microscopy and Analysis

• Microscopy Today

  • Issue Archive

• Modern Microscopy

• infocus

• Cultures (American Society for Microbiology)

  • back issue archive

• Microscopia Magazine (in French)

Plankton & Other Aquatic Life

• Plankton Portal

• The Plankton Project

• Marine Species Identification Portal

• World Register of Marine Images

• UCLA OceanGlobe (archived)

  • Field Guides and Teaching Materials

  • Pictorial Database of Commonly Observed Species

• Micscape Pond Life Identification Kit

• Pondlife

• Great Lakes Water Life Photo Gallery

• Algaebase

• Phytoplankton Identification: a look at the tiny drifters along the California coast

• Freshwater Algae in Northwest Washington

  • Volume I, Cyanobacteria

  • Volume II, Chlorophyta and Rhodophyta

• Desmids dot com

• Desmid Species in the Netherlands

• DIADIST Desmid Resources

Zooplankton

• An Image-Based Key to the Zooplankton of North America

• Zooplankton of Southern California

• Australian Marine Zooplankton: a taxonomic guide and atlas

• The Zooplankton Project

• CMarZ Zooplankton Resources

• The World of Protozoa, Rotifera, Nematoda and Oligochaeta

Microscopy Forums & Listservs

• Microscope Yahoo Group: Microscopy as a hobby or profession

• Amateur Microscopy Club Yahoo Group

• Microscope Restoration and Collection

• Amateurmicrography Forum

• Photomacrography Forum

• The Microscopy ListServer

• Confocal Listserv

• Facebook: Amateur Microscopy

Diatoms

• The Amateur Diatomist

• The Diatom Collection of the California Academy of Sciences (archive)

• Diatoms of the Southern California Bight

• Diatoms of the United States

• Common Freshwater Diatoms of Britain and Ireland

• DIADIST Diatom Resources

• Diatoms Ireland

• Diatom Project Videos on Diatom Collecting, Processing, and Observing

• Stuart R. Stidolph Diatom Atlas

• An Introduction to the Microscopical Study of Diatoms

• Marine Plankton Diatoms of the West Coast of North America SE Cupp (1944)

Microscopy Imaging Competitions

• Olympus BioScapes Photomicrography Competition

• Nikon's Small World Photomicrography Competition

• RMS Scientific Imaging Competition

  • Overview

  • Winning Images

Microscopy Blogs & Personal Websites

• Brian J. Ford

• Under the Microscope

• Microscopes Blog

• Microscope Master Blog

• Green Microscope

• Murry Gans SEM Blog

• MicroscopeWorld Blog

• Peter Werner’s Macro/Micro/Myco Blog

• MycoRant

• American Society for Microbiology Blogs

• Small Things Considered

• Beyond the Human Eye

• Microscopy and Analysis Blog

• Austin Blanco’s Imaging Blog

• W. Nuhsbaum Microscopy Blog

• Miniature Horizons Microscopy Blog

• Kurt Thorne’s Microscopy Blog

• Microscopy Matters

• Labrigger

• greenfluorescentblog

Radiolaria, foramnifera and other rhizaria

• Radiolaria.org

• Recent British Foraminifera of the Channel

Microscopy Videos

• Craig Smith

• Microscopic World

• Wayne Lanier

• Microbe Hunter

• Tedx: Wim van Egmond, A Journey Inside the Micro-world

General Microlife

• Discover Life

• Tree of Life Web Project

• iNaturalist

• MicrobeWiki

• Microbe World: Types of Microbes

• Protist Information Server (including Microbial Digital Specimen Archives)

• UC Museum of Paleontology Microfossil Collection

• Microbial Life - Educational Resources

Ciliates, amoeboid organisms, and other "protozoa"

• Droplet: Amateur Microscopy of the Protozoa

• The World of Protozoa, Rotifera, Nematoda and Oligochaeta

• The Ciliate Resource Archive

• The User-Friendly Guide to Coastal Planktonic Ciliates

• Microworld: The World of Ameoboid Organisms

• The Amoebae

• The Euglenoid Project

Online Microscopy Galleries

• Micropolitan Museum 1

• Micropolitan Museum 2

• Microscopic Science Art

• Charles Krebs Photomicrography

• Francisco Pujante: Video Atlas de los Microorganismos Acuaticos

• Raul Gonzalez

• Frank Fox Mikrofotografie und Makrofotografie

• Miniature Horizons Electron Microscope Photography

• Flickr: Microphotography Groups

• Flickr: Microscope

• Flickr: Cell Biology Group

• Flickr: Mon Microscopic

• Flickr: Proyecto Agua

• Flickr: R. Gross Microscopy

Plants

• Bryophyte Flora of North America

• California Moss eFlora

• Illustrated Key to Liverwort Genera of Oregon

• Key to the Hornworts of Oregon

• Guide to Moss Genera

• Photographic Atlas of Plant Anatomy

• Inside the Flower

• Owen Davis Palynology Pages

• Introduction to Pollen Analysis

Microcrustacea

• Practical Guide to Identifying Freshwater Crustacean Zooplankton

• Crustacea.net

• The Cladocera Interest Group

• Cladocera Collection

• Cladocera: A Short Course

• Copepod Web Portal

• Marine Planktonic Copepods

• Smithsonian World of Copepods

Fungi and oomycetes

• MycoBank Database

• Mushroom Observer

• Michael Kuo: Using a Microscope to Study Mushrooms

• Hyphalfusion.com: Microscopy of Gilled Mushrooms

• Facebook: Fungal Microscopy

• Microfungi.org

• Chytrid Fungi Online

• How to Find and Isolate Chytrids

• American Phytopathological Society (APS) Education Center

• APS Laboratory Exercises in Plant Pathology

• Nematophagous fungi (video)

  • Part 1

  • Part 2

Insects, springtails & arachnids

• BugGuide

• North American Insects and Spiders

• Collembola of the World

• Discover Life: Mites

• ASM: The Natural History of Cheese Mites by Scott Chimileski

Rotifers & Nematodes & Worms

• MicScape: Welcome to the Wonderfully Weird World of Rotifers

• Rotifers of Large Rivers

• Plant and Insect Parasitic Nematodes

• Easy Polychaete Identification & Classification Online

  • Key

  • Glossary

Mammalian Histology

• Histology Guide

• Human Histology Virtual Laboratory

• Tissue Master

• FBI Forensic Science Communications: Hair Microscopy Overview

Tardigrades

• The International Society of Tardigrade Hunters

• Tardigrades.us

• Tardigrades.de

• Tardigrada Register & Newsletter

• Tardigrade Species Distribution Project

• UNC Goldstein Lab Tardigrades

Microbiology, Foods, & Forensics

• Microbiology Online

• Microbial Foods

• Food Microscopy

• Foods Under the Microscope

• Chris Parmenter: The Future of Food Science?

• FBI Forensic Science Communications: Hairs, Fibers, Crime, and Evidence

Minerals & Materials

• David W. Mogk Optical Mineralogy: Tutorials and Other On-Line Resources

• Mineralogical Society of America Open Access Publications

• Virtual Microscope Mineralogical Collection

• McCrone Atlas of Microscopic Particles

• MicrolabNW Particle Analysis

  • MicrolabNW Photomicrograph Gallery: Thousands of particles under the microscope

  • MicrolabNW YouTube Videos

Other Microscopy Projects

• Foldscope

• GigaMacro

Microscopes, Imaging Systems, & Accessories

• Carl Zeiss Microscopy

• Leica Microsystems

• Meiji Techno

• Motic Microscopes

• Nikon Instruments

• Olympus

  • Olympus Life Science

  • Olympus Industrial Microscopes

• JH Technologies (Leica dealer for Northern California)

• CTK Instruments (Carl Zeiss dealer for California)

• Technical Instruments

• Bi-Optic, Inc (microscopes, camera, and servicing for Northern California)

• Nightsea (fluorescence systems for stereoscopes)

• MicroscopeNet

• RetroDiode (LED lamps for vintage microscopes)

• Martin Microscope

• MeCan Imaging

Microscopy Supplies

• Ted Pella

• Electron Microscopy Sciences

• Klaus D. Kemp Microlife Services

Professional Microscopy Societies

• Microscopy Society of America (MSA)

• Northern California Society for Microscopy (local MSA chapter)

• MSA Chapter list

• Royal Microscopical Society

Amateur Microscopy Societies

• Microscopical Society of Southern California

• Seattle Microscopy Meetup

• State Microscopical Society of Illinois

• New York Microscopical Society

• Leidy Microscopical Society (Pennsylvania/New Jersey)

• Georgia Microscopical Society

• Quekett Microscopical Club

• Manchester Microscopical & Natural History Society

• Postal Microscopical Society

• Quekett worldwide directory of microscopical groups

Microscopy Software

• ImageJ

• FIJI

• CombineZP

Bay Area Naturalist Groups using Microscopy

• CNPS Bryophyte Chapter

• The California Lichen Society

• Bay Area Mycological Society

• Mycological Society of San Francisco

• Sonoma County Mycological Association

• Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz

• Insect Sciences Museum

• California Center for Natural History

• Northern California Mineralogical Association

• Bay Area Mineralogists

• Livermore Valley Lithophiles