Quebec City, Canada 21-26 August 2016 The 24th International Diatom Symposium is starting off in Quebec City, Canada. We are also here to present the results of our project. The second day of the IDS2016, with a lot of interesting presentations! The third day of IDS2016 is reserved for workshops about diatom structures terminology and Pročitaj više …

Torino, Italy July 31 – August 5, 2016

Next thursday 14th of July at 6pm, dr. sc. Petar Žutinić will give a lecture about our work on the project, under the title “Diatoms: little organisms – big impacts”.

On Monday we went back to Plitvice lakes in order to conduct third sampleing of lakes Kozjak and Prošće. This time we were helped by our former student Anamaria which proved herself skillful and useful in the field. With her help and the already habitual help of Mr. Pero at the helm of the boat, Pročitaj više …

On 4th and 5th of May, we held a two-day workshop on the topic of diatoms as indicators of the ecological status of waters within which we presented the project “Diatoms – descriptors of ecological status of Plitvice lakes, Republic of Croatia”. The participants were students of Applied algology and other interested students. Due to Pročitaj više …

Section of botanical and school gardens, arboretums and botanical collections of Croatian Botanical Society, in collaboration with a number of co-organizers, organized the sixth “Week of botanical gardens, arboretums and botanical collections of Croatia” from 9th to 15th May 2016. On Tuesday, 10th and on Friday 13th of May we participated in the activities of Pročitaj više …

Fieldwork 6.5.2016. After an intense week, on Friday we carried out this year’s second sampling campaign as a part of our project at Plitvice Lakes National Park. We enjoyed nice spring weather and quickly managed to collect all the samples and carry out the necessary measurements. This time we again had help from the employees Pročitaj više …

In early April, we had this first year’s first fieldwork within the Algae – DES Project. In collaboration with the staff of the National Park Plitivce lake samples were collected on the lakes Prošće and Kozjak. We conducted basic physico- chemical measurements and collected samples of phytoplankton and phytobenthos and water samples for chemical analysis Pročitaj više …