My 2009 resolution was to design a lab poster on green algal taxonomy that got completed very much in time and happily, I humbly received many positive feedbacks about it through Algae-L. Thank you all! This year's (2010) resolution is similar but more ambitious project that demands quite much a work; creating an MIT-style hypertextbook titled "Introductory Phycology", which is, of course, "open-access", online-only textbook at intermediate level intended for students and popular science enthusiasts alike. This is the project home page of the hypertextbook that is currently underway. 

The idea was conceived on the course of my PhD research, partly due to the fact that information on basic Phycology available online are really scant and insufficient for the modern times when we increasingly depend information accessed from the world wide web. Sites like AlgaeBase excellently document algal biodiversity and serve as important databases specialists can always depend to, however, these lack more basic information on such things like algal ecophysiology or methods for the identification. At present there aren't any collaborators for this venture, but I would be humbled if someone could extend their support.

I make the progress of this project accessible through this website; new sections are constantly being added into the navigation panel on left side. I started it off with few sub-sections from"General Introduction" part of my PhD thesis, which document some basic information on algal taxonomy and phylogenetics. Sections, including 'completed' that appear here and the table of contents, are constantly being revised. Upon the completion of the project (that I hope to be in the second half of 2010), the hypertextbook might be migrated to a website of its own.

There are few differences that makes this project a bit different from an ordinary hypertextbook. Information presented herein are mostly taken from peer-reviewed and up-to-date reviews published in academic journals instead from other textbooks. Wherever possible, hyperlinks directly link to the original sources (such as primary research article) and other websites (including wikipedia articles), to greatly help the inquisitive readers. 

Most importantly, I am only a beginner in Phycology and there are ample of rooms for further improvement. I am also not a native English speaker (English is my second language) so there might be several errors in the language part as well. I would be really thankful if you could let me know errors-if any, if you happened to come across. Thank you!