Resources
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Photography
- Intro to microscope photography: Popular Photography guide
- Focus stacking online app: PICOLAY
- Darkfield hack (scroll down the article): Wayne’s This and That
- Rheinberg filters: Mike Shaw
- MICAM: Science4all
- Photomicrography: Olympus
Taxonomy and Identification
- Amoeboid organisms
- Copepods
- Copepods (Australia)
- Gastrotichs
- Illustrated Guides to Freshwater Microscopic Life
- Microalgae and aquatic protozoa
- Plankton Identification (PDF)
- Protists
- Protista Kingdom of Life
- Tardigrada: Evolution and Ecology
- Tardigrades: Bears of the Moss
- Worms: Aquatic
- Zooplankton of North America
Learn more!
- Nematodes and Tardigrades
- Tardigrades
- Nematodes: in-depth
- Cryptobiosis
- How microscopes work (PDF)
- Rotifers
- Paramecium
- Freshwater Snails
How To
- Find a Tardigrade in the Wild
- Collect amoebae
- How to raise Daphnia
- How to clean your microscope
- DIY humidity chamber
- How to culture amphipods or copepods
- Darkfield hack 1
- Darkfield hack 2
SciArt
Cool links!
- Journey to the Microcosmos (YouTube)
- Microbehunter (YouTube)
- Small Things Considered (Academic Blog)
- Museum of Microscopy
- Pond Life Identification Kit
- Rick’s Microscope primer
- Nikon’s Small World