Peatland links

USEPA Wetland Site

http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands

A University of Guelph site describing Canadian wetlands

http://www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/wetlands/wetlandframes.htm

Official web page of the Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss Association, with information about harvesting peat and restoring wetlands

http://www.peatmoss.com/index.html

The Canadian Wildlife Service webpage classifying different types of wetlands

http://lavoieverte.qc.ec.gc.ca/faune/AtlasTerresHumides/html/classification_e.html

Society of wetland scientists 

http://www.sws.org/

International Peat Society, Finland

http://www.peatsociety.fi/

A great USDA site describing the plants, including those in wetlands

http://plants.usda.gov/

A great Austrian site about the wonderful world of Sphagnum peat mosses

http://www.botanik.univie.ac.at/pershome/temsch/basics.html

An article in Slate Online Magazine about the role of peat in flavoring scotch whiskey
http://slate.msn.com/id/2097036

 

Other laboratories studying microbiology/methanogenesis in peatlands:

Ralf Conrad, Max Plank Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany

http://www.uni-marburg.de/mpi/conrad/conrad.html

Harold Drake, University of Bayreuth Institute for Terrestrial Ecosystem Studies, Germany

http://www.bitoek.uni-bayreuth.de/bitoek/en/mitarbeiter/mit/mitarbeiter_detail.php?id_obj=5668

Mark Hines, University of Alaska

http://hosting.uaa.alaska.edu/mhines/hines/

Tim Moore, Dept. Geography, McGill University, Canada

http://www.geog.mcgill.ca/faculty/moore/moore.html

Nicolai Panikov, Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA

http://attila.stevens-tech.edu/~npanikov/

Nigel Roulet- McGill University, Canada

http://www.geog.mcgill.ca/faculty/roulet/

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Other Microbial Observatories:

Monterey Bay Coastal Ocean Microbial Observatory

http://www.tigr.org/tdb/MBMO/

TIGR Comprehensive Microbial Resource

http://www.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR2/CMRHomePage.spl

H.J. Andrews Forest Microbial Observatory

http://cropandsoil.oregonstate.edu/HJA_mo/default.html

The Duke Forest Mycological Observatorybsp;

http://www.biology.duke.edu/fungi/mycolab/DFMO.html

Itasca State Park Microbial Observatory

http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/fawley/coccoids/Itasca/itascadata.htm

Mono Lake Microbial Observatory

http://www.monobasinresearch.org/research/microbial/

North Temperate Lakes Microbial Observatory

http://microbes.limnology.wisc.edu/

Nymph Creek Microbial Observatory

(no active link available)

Oceanic Microbial Observatory

(no active link available)

Prairie Soil Microbial Observatory

http://jove.geol.niu.edu/faculty/lenczewski/Nachusa.html

Red Layer Microbial Observatory

http://www.wou.edu/~boomers/research/allresearch.html

San Salvador Microbial Observatory

http://www.marine.unc.edu/Paerllab/research/sansal_site/pages/

Tropical Caterpillars Microbial Observatory

http://alrlab.pdx.edu/research/mocat/

 

Microbiology links

Microbe World is the American Society for Microbiology's site linking to educational reseources at all levels about microorganisms and microbiology.

http://www.microbeworld.org/home.htm

Digital learning center at the Center for Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University

http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/

 

Cornell Links:

Department of Microbiology

http://www.micro.cornell.edu/

Department of Natural Resources

http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/

The Cornell Biogeochemistry and Environmental Biocomplexity NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)

http://www.biogeo.cornell.edu/

The Cornell Biogeochemistry and Biocomplexity Initiative

http://environment.cornell.edu/initiatives/bbi/bbi.html

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http://www.chimes.cornell.edu/