Sunday, May 4th, 11am

The Danish Fungal Atlas, began in 2009 as a citizen science project bridging amateur and professional mycology in Denmark. The project has collected over 1.2 million records of fungi in Denmark, which have been widely used for both research and nature conservation planning. The project utilizes innovative tools for enhancing data quality and helping volunteers contribute, including unique data validation algorithms, AI based species identification tools and next generation sequencing. Lately several aspects of these efforts have been expanded to the European scale in the FunDive project, which currently connects citizen scientists and academics researchers across more than 20 countries in Europe.

Visit the Danish Fungal Atlas website: https://svampe.databasen.org/

Jacob Heilmann-Clausen has a PhD in forest ecology from University of Copenhagen, 2004, with a focus on community ecology and conservation of fungi growing on dead wood. He has considerable experience from practical nature management and now holds a position as Assoc. Professor at the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Here he works in conservation, restoration ecology, biodiversity monitoring, and fungal macroecology.