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8 Module Online Mycology Course

You will receive the recordings of all eight presentations and the associated slide decks, a plethora of learning materials, resources, access to a community platform hared amongst students and more!

 
 
 
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View fullsize A big appreciation post for these tiny ones that go largely unseen even to the curious eye. It is a goal of my work with the @fungaldiversitysurvey to focus on these minute yet absolutely stunning Ascomycetes… aka spending a lot of time crawli
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View fullsize I have longed to meet one of the many stalked puffball species, and the last place I foresaw having my first encounter would be in an inconspicuous pot on my back porch! One rainy day I noticed a small, spherical, white rock-looking addition to one o
View fullsize Uroctonus mordax under 395 nm UV light and in natural light It took me about seven years of living in California to see the western forest scorpion. Maybe I wasn’t looking in the right places or at the right times. But just this weekend I was
View fullsize Myco (Greek mukēs): fungus Hetero (Greek heteros): other, different Trophy (Greek trophē): nourishment To put it simply, mycoheterotrophy is the strategy of using fungi to meet nutritional needs. Mycoheteroteophic plants can be either fully or par
View fullsize how many eyes does it take to look back at you before you feel seen? how many organs of perception does it take to perceive you before you feel… something? anything? how many encounters with rain and wind and rot and breath will it take b
View fullsize It has been a great honor to work for the @fungaldiversitysurvey this past year in multiple capacities, serving as a collector for the statewide CA Fungal Diversity Survey and as co-coordinator for the West Coast Rare Fungi Challenge. I have learned
View fullsize The spellbinding rays of Astraeus “hygrometricus group”. Also known as the barometer earthstar, this specialized puffball has a meteorological “trick” that earns them their common name. The hygroscopic rays comprised of thick,
View fullsize More fungi walks for 2024! Come join us in these verdant and fecund coastal ecologies and work those muscles of mycological literacy ~ link in bio
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View fullsize The seductively stunning cobweb-like partial veil of Cortinarius traganus
View fullsize It’s been a privilege and honor to spend another full and fecund year facilitating fungi-focused ecological education throughout the Bay Area. Thank you to all the amazing conservation organizations who are choosing to make ecological educatio
View fullsize Last year, we had so much fun putting on an incredible weekend-long mycology event in Cambria, and it was so well received that we’re doing it again! We are overjoyed to collaborate with @plantaeandfungi to offer the second annual Cambria Myc
View fullsize Gazing at the drip of state change, for a moment I was in the late Pleistocene. I spin my head and see not megafauna but thousands of humans capturing this momentous glaciation - snapshots in time - as if that could somehow stop Vatnajökull&rsqu
View fullsize Sphaerobolus stellatus is a tiny and inconspicuous fungus, yet enchanting nonetheless. Incredibly common but often overlooked, they can be found growing on mulch and woody debris worldwide. Fungal forms and strategies, in large, are evolutionarily dr
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