About us

First green algae: Olav M. Skulberg isolated the first green algae strain in the collection in 1959. Today, NIVA-CHL1 is one of the most widely used test algae in the world.

The Norwegian Culture Collection of Algae, NORCCA, is the largest algal culture collection in the Nordic countries and maintains and distributes more than 2000 strains of cyanobacteria, microalgae and macroalgae. It is owned and maintained by the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) and the University of Oslo (UIO) in collaboration. It is localised at NIVA, Oslo in Forskningsparken and at UiO, Department of Biosciences at Blindern campus. NORCCA is a part of the European infrastructure EMBRC and the Norwegian national infrastructure EMBRC-Norway.

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