Freshwater Bryozoans

• Dr. Timothy S. Wood
• Department of Biological Sciences
• Wright State University
• Dayton, OH 45435 USA

LINKS

Professional Organizations

• Bryozoan Website. A wealth of information related to recent and fossil bryozoans.
• International Bryozoology Association. Information about the organization, its members,  publications, and meetings.
• Ohio Biological Survey.  A corsortium of Ohio colleges, universities, museums, agencies and other organizations  producing and disseminating objective scientific and technical information about Ohio plants and animals. 
• Thai Freshwater Bryozoology Association. The only national bryozoology website, with information about freshwater bryozoans in Southeast Asia, offered in both English and Thai.

Commercial Links

• Bryo Technologies, LLC.   This research and consulting organization addresses bryozoan fouling issues in irrigation, wastewater, and industrial cooling systems.

Field Stations

• Duke University Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina  
• Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington.
• Kasetsart Freshwater Ecology Laboratory, Bangkok, Thailand (in preparation)
• Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Barro Colorado Island, Panama
• Stone Laboratory, Out-in-Bay, Ohio (on Lake Erie).

Taxonomic Databases

• Encyclopedia of Life. An ambitious project to build a series of websites, one for every known species.  
• BryoZone. An Interactive Global Reference for Phylum Bryozoa, based at the Field Museum in Chicago.   

Research Tools

• BioEdit. Biological sequence alignment editor
• Electronic Field Guide Project.  Web-based applications that facilitate the identification of species and recording of ecological observations
• National Center for Biotechnology Information. Databases for genome sequences, etc.

Museums with collections of freshwater bryozoans

• Amsterdam: Zoological Museum  
• Berlin: Museum für naturkunde.  
• Frankfurt: Senkenburg Research Institute and Natural History Museum.   
• Hamburg: Zoologisches Museum, Hamburg 
• Illinois: Illinois Natural History Survey, Springfield, IL 
• Calcutta: Biological Survey of India. http://envfor.nic.in/zsi/
• Leiden: National Museum of Natural History. 
• London: Natural History Museum
• Washington, D.C.: United States National Museum (Smithsonian).
• Virginia: Virginia Museum of Natural History