• Field collections from the water column , muds and sands , isolating taxa, documenting protists and rendering them into culture and adding content to micro*scope
• Exercise for doing LM and SEM on diatoms
• Develop vouchering protocols for taxa subject to molecular studies
• Develop an understanding of ultrastructural identities and develop reviews of particular organelles ; and make three dimensional reconstructions of particular taxa using the micro*graph environment
• (isolation, cleaning, and rendering into culture species from marine and freshwater habitats)
• Contribute to an on-line glossary
• Adding to micro*scope - an internet-based repository of descriptive information

What is behind the scenes

The protistiary environment is one of a number of environments that are being assembled on the web. These have a layered architecture

At the foundation lies the uBio nameBank - a repository of names of organisms set in an environment developed to underpin network services. The names are enriched with an 'ontology' in which alternative names for the same taxa are mapped against each other.

CU*STAR presents the names in a unified hierarchjical structure, and this is used as an indexing device for information located locally and remotely but accessible through the internet.

bio*pedia is a data base of descriptions of taxa that are linked to entries in CU*STAR

micro*scope is an environment that provides descriptions of taxa by bringing together light micrographs , entries from bio*pedia, and outlinks to remote content. There are several versions, the normal one is http://microscope.mbl.edu, but the link above takes you to the development version which is where we hope you will invest your energies.

micro*graph is a specialised domain of the micro*scope environment dedicated to electron micrographs of a research grade. Guide to working with micro*graph

We are also developing a web-based glossary.

We have developed a mirror version of the micro*scope, micrograph, and protistiary so that you can amend structure and content.

We have tools to allow you to add content to the delivery version of micro*scope. Changes to micro*graph and protistiary will take place in the mirror version first. When we are content with the changes, djp or aa will move content to the delivery version

Shared folder

We have made a shared folder on eutree.mbl.edu. You will need the SSH communications protocol software - a free download is available . Once it is installed, use the quickconnect button and access eutree.mbl.edu. Use your username and password. Within that, there is a folder waiting for you. Create subfolders with a subject_person name to make sure that we don't get more than one person working on the same file. This is apparently workflow stuff.

Useful links

• Software
• Protistiary index
• The protistiary environment on the web site
• The protistiary environment on the eu-tree mirror site
• Micro*graph
• Mirror Micro*graph
• micro*scope - enter a new collection (needs password)
• administrator password for MBL laptop computers is mbladmin and mbluser password is mblpass
• Glossary