Software

• Image Processing: Fiji
• Video Recording: ISpy
• Video Processing: VirtualDub, ffdshow, Fiji combined with these software
• Statistics: SPSS, R
• Line Drawings, Customization of Vector Images, Graphs, etc: Inkscape
  (also use Inkscape to convert SPSS graphs to EPS format via PDF export)
• Posters: Open Office Draw

Invertebrate Zoology

• A Practical Guide to the Marine Animals of Northeastern North America by Pollock
• A photographic guide to seashore life in the North Atlantic: Canada to Cape Cod by Sept
• World Register of Marine Species

Gastropod Research

• Tritonia Scholarpedia page
• Lymnaea Scholarpedia page
• Lymnaea reproductive biology from the Malacological Society of the UK
• Freshwater Gastropods of North America | FWGNA Blog
• Hermissenda Scholarpedia page
• Hermissenda information from MBL, including culture methods

Neuroethology

• Neuroethology Scholarpedia page
• List of Neuroethology Books and Articles (from Jim Belanger)
• Model Systems (info on Tritonia, Pleurobranchaea, Clione, Aplysia and other models from Richard Vogt's course)

Microscopy

• Neuroanatomy Scholarpedia page

Immunohistochemistry

• Immunohistochemistry Wikipedia page (skip the last section on Directing therapy)
• IHCWorld Immunohistochemistry Introduction (all 6 sections)
• iBioSeminars - Fluorescence Microscopy
• iBioSeminars - Confocal Microscopy

Electron Microscopy

• Electron Microscope Wikipedia page
• iBioSeminars - Transmission Electron Microscopy
• Immunogold Wikipedia page (and also see the Immunohistochemistry page)
  

Animal Behaviour

• Useful book: Essential Animal Behavior (by Scott; basic background in ethology)
• Useful book: Observing Animal Behaviour (by Dawkins; less detailed)
• Useful book: Measuring Behaviour (3rd edition, by Martin and Bateson; more detailed)
• Very useful book and software: Quantifying Behavior the JWatcher Way (very detailed; exploits JWatcher)
• Useful article: How to Avoid the Seven Deadly Sins of Studying Animal Behaviour (by Milinski)
• Classic Book: The Study of Instinct (by Tinbergen)

Biology and General Science

• Reporting Statistics in Theses and Articles
• VassarStats: online statistical software
• Writing Scientific Manuscripts: a guide for undergraduates
• Algorithm for Writing a Scientific Manuscript
• SciDevNet: How do I write a scientific paper?
• SciDevNet: How do I submit a paper to a scientific journal?
• Books: for more indepth information on publishing: this or this will be helfpul
• Nova Scotian Institute for Science and their annual writing competition for undergraduate and graduate students (cash prizes!)
  

Research Facilities

• Atlantic Facilities and Research Equipment Database
• Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre
• Friday Harbor Laboratories
• Dalhousie Cellular Microscopy Digital Imaging

Specialized Courses

• Friday Harbor Laboratories: Neuroethology
• Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole): Neural Systems and Behavior
• University of Wollongong: A Course About Molluscs

Collaborators

• see the Research Projects page

Societies

• International Society for Neuroethology
• Society for Molluscan Neuroscience
• Society for Intergrative and Comparative Biology
• Canadian Society of Zoologists
• Society for Neuroscience
• American Microscopical Society

Student Conferences

• Atlantic Undergraduate Biology Conference (annually in Feb/Mar at an Atlantic university)
    [Run by the Atlantic Provinces Council on the Sciences - APICS]
• ACCESS Conference (annually in May at an Atlantic University)
    [Run by the Atlantic Canada Coastal and Estuarine Science Society]
• Rising Stars of Research (annually at UBC in Aug)
• Pacific Ecology Conference (annually in Feb/Mar at a Western university)
• East Coast Nerve Net (annually in Mar in the eastern US)
• Atlantic Regional Comparative Physiology Conference (annually in Oct)