Happy Phyco-Friday!
Today we spotlight Alana Breitkreutz, a recent recipient of the PSA Hoshaw Travel Award for the upcoming conference in Juneau, Alaska!
Alana is a member of the Martone lab at the University of British Columbia and just successfully defended her PhD in March. Her work focuses on how the bull kelp Nereocystis luetkeana develops its blade and incorporates biomechanics, histology, and flume based manipulative experiments into her research.
Read more about Alana in this post!
To learn more about the PSA Hoshaw Travel Award and other grants available through PSA, check out our website: /
#PSA #kelp #hoshaw #studentspotlight #phycology
We hope everyone is getting excited about PSA 2026, 14–17 June in Juneau, Alaska! We’re thrilled to introduce our 2026 Lang Lecture Speaker, Roksana Majewska.
#PSA2026 #Phycology #Diatoms #MarineBiology #Algae
Can you believe that the 80th Annual Phycological Society of America meeting is going to be held in Juneau this year ?? 🩵
We are so excited to welcome so many phyco-philes to Alaska June 14-17, 2027 !! 🌿
Make sure you stop by the @alaskaseagrant x @alaskamrtc booth. We will have seaweed Buffs, swag, books, and you can even pick up a copy of the NEW 2nd edition of the Field Guide to Seaweeds of Alaska !! 📚
PS: you may even be able to get a signed copy 🤭
Learn more about @psa_algae on their Instagram or via the 🔗 link in our bio.
Cover images 📸: @nesbittphotography & Melissa Good/Alaska Sea Grant.
#PSA #Seaweed #Algae #Alaska #Kelp
Up next, we’re excited to announce Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield as our second plenary speaker for PSA 2026!
Registration is now open through May 1, so be sure to sign up!
#algae #alaska #seaweed #phycology #science
This year's conference logos are live on our RedBubble store!! Check them out here to buy all kinds of PSA swag!
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We are excited to share the official logo for the 80th Annual PSA Meeting, designed by Paula Erazo!!
Paula shares that “This logo is inspired by the formline art style of the Pacific Northwest, specifically the Tlingit and Haida peoples. It features Alaskan bull kelp, an important species in local marine ecosystems that is traditionally harvested from June through August for its nutritional value and for making the locally famous kelp pickles.
It also includes the mountains of Juneau with stars whose silhouettes resemble humpback whales. These whales visit the coast of Alaska from May through September, and are at peak activity during the time of the conference”
This logo design and designs for 2nd and 3rd place will be available at the PSA Algae Store on Red Bubble shortly.
Congratulations Paula!
We’re excited to introduce our first plenary speaker for the 80th Annual PSA Meeting: Dr. Schery Umanzor from the University of Alaska Fairbanks! Stay tuned to learn more about her work on seaweed farming, kelp restoration, and sustainable mariculture systems.
#PSA2026 #Phycology #MarineScience #Seaweed #MarineEcology
Reminder! Registration and abstract submission for the 80th Annual PSA Meeting close on April 24, 2026, so be sure to sign up before then.
In the meantime, here’s a sneak peek of the meeting schedule. More information on plenary speakers and field trips will be posted next week!
#Phycology #PhycologicalSociety #PSA2026 #Algae #Seaweed
Happy Phyco-Friday!
Today we spotlight Claire White, a recent recipient of the PSA Croasdale Fellowship!
Claire is a second year Master's student at the University of Texas at Austin's Marine Science Institute. Claire's research focuses on optimizing growth conditions for seaweed aquaculture and utilizing Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture on the Texas Coast.
With the support of the Croasdale Fellowship, Claire attended a "Taxonomy of Marine Flora" field course at the Station Biologique in Roscoff, France. During the course, experts from various universities taught the students about the different major groups of macroalgae and common marsh plants through field trips and many hands-on activities! One of the highlights of the course was being “able to meet a lot of like-minded student researchers and share insights about our own research experiences to each other”.
Looking ahead Claire is "very excited at the endless possibilities that come with researching seaweed, especially in the aquaculture sector. Using seaweed, whether that be growing it in the open ocean or in the lab can help us solve a lot of major environmental problems”
To learn more about the Croasdale Fellowship and other grants available through PSA check out our website! /
EXTENDED DEADLINE: Submit your designs by April 19th, 2026.
(please ignore the April 15 deadline written in this post)
We are very excited to announce this year's Conference Logo Design Contest!! Submit your design for a chance to be featured as the official logo for the 80th annual PSA Conference in Juneau Alaska.
Registration and Abstract Submission for the 80th annual PSA meeting, held in Juneau, Alaska, are now open! Submissions will close on April 24th, 2026, so be sure to get your registration and abstracts in by then! For more information on the Annual Meeting and registration process see: /meetings/2026/1/12/psa-14-17-june-in-juneau-alaska
#algae #psa #alaska #conference
