Membership Information

How to Join PSA

Join or renew your membership online using our secure form sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing or the WIley customer service at cs-membership@wiley.com.

Free and Discounted Memberships

PSA recognizes that membership fees may present an economic barrier to joining the society. PSA offers a limited number of free and discounted memberships. Interested phycologists may apply using this form. Please contact the Membership Director if you would like further details.

Sponsor a Student

Why not sponsor a student with membership in the Phycological Society? For only $40 US you can provide an outstanding student with three years of online access to the Journal of Phycology and eligibility for student awards. You will need to know the student's name, email address, and institutional affiliation to purchase their membership. The student will be notified and will receive instructions on how to access the journal and other membership benefits.

Membership Directory

A directory of PSA Members is available upon request from the Membership Director. Please check your own entry for any errors or omissions, and notify the Membership Director with any corrections.

Membership Benefits

•  Journal of Phycology
  Members receive the Journal of Phycology, the premier journal of research on phycology. The Journal is published six times a year. Articles include reports on systematics, ecology, morphology, cytology, physiology, biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, genetics, and applied phycology. PSA members can sign-in and access the Journal of Phycology by logging in using their Wiley Online Library account username and password on the Journal homepage linked here. This access log in information is sent to members after they have joined/renewed their PSA membership. Please contact  cs-membership@wiley.com with any access related inquiries.

• Mobile Access
  Members of the Phycological Society of America can also access the Journal of Phycology through an iPad and iPhone app. Instructions on how to access the journal are in this pdf.

• Article Research
  In addition, members are able to search current & back issues table of content, abstracts and full-text articles of the electronic version of the Journal of Phycology. The table of content and abstracts are available free of charge to all that are interested. The full-text articles are reserved as a benefit for society members only.

• Phycological Newsletter
  Members receive a pdf copy of the Phycological Newsletter or they can download it from our website. The Newsletter contains news of Society activities, news of colleagues, book review, information on summer field courses and graduate programs, and general articles of interest to phycologists. For more information, please contact the Communications Director.

• Student and Early Career Researcher Grants
  Student Members of PSA are eligible for grants in support of research, travel to the Annual Meeting, and tuition for field courses. Early Career Researchers are eligible for the Norma Lang Fellowship.

• Elections
  Current PSA members elect the officers of PSA in yearly elections.