Next Monday’s week’s ID meeting will be happening online. Tom Bigelow will host a waxy cap themed ID meeting, we're encouraging people to bring their waxy caps and their ... […]
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Join us for a walk in Clove Lakes Park, Staten Island this Sunday, March 31st! Bring paper bags for collecting specimens, a hand lens, a knife, […]
Next Monday’s week’s ID meeting will be happening online. Come share what you’ve found, see what others have found or to ask more general questions about anything fungi-related. We encourage […]
Damon Tighe is an amateur mycologist from Oakland California who is a big user of the iNaturalist platform. He is a collector for the California Fungal Diversity Survey (FUNDIS) and has done fungal surveys in Ecuador, Arizona, among other locales using iNaturalist as the primary tool to collect and share data with stakeholders. In his professional life he was a former researcher on the Human Genome Project and now helps translate biotechnology techniques into classroom activities for education institutions across the country.
Join us for a walk in Van Cortlandt Park West, Bronx this Sunday, April 7th! Bring paper bags for collecting specimens, a hand lens, a knife, […]
Next Monday's ID meeting will take place from 6.30 to 8.30 in person.
Attendees can of course arrive later and leave earlier.
Please bring any interesting specimens regardless of whether you have identified them or not, and check out what others have found.
In person ID meetings are a great way of developing your hands-on identification skills and dipping your toes into microscopy!
SATURDAY APRIL 13 2024 @ 10 AM 500 25th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232 The NYC Nature Drawing Club, founded by NYMS members Margot Dorn and Lindsay […]
Join us for a walk in Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan this Saturday, April 13th! Bring paper bags for collecting specimens, a hand lens, a knife, a […]
In 1989, a standing forest in Finland was burnt for restoration purposes. It was a first in Finland - and perhaps in the whole of Europe. Collections of wood-decaying polypore fungi were studied on the burn site, beginning a year before the fire and continuing for 33 years after. It is likely that the number of species observed during the study period was a record for any one-hectare forest area in Finland. Several red-listed species were found and in general, the effects of burning appeared to have a positive effect on polypore diversity.
Kaisa Junninen works as a senior specialist on species conservation at Metsähallitus Parks & Wildlife Finland. She is a forest ecologist who has specialized in polypore fungi, deadwood ecology and natural forests, and has been in charge of red-listing polypore fungi in Finland. She is featured in Considering Fungi, Episode 1: Facilitating Habitat Formation in Boreal Forests
Next Monday's week's ID meeting will be happening online.
Rather than using our usual format we're going to experiment a little. Since there are fewer fungi to be found this time of year, we'll be diving deeper into genera that a lot of people are interested in. This Monday the spotlight is on the milky caps - Lactarius and Lactifluus, hosted and moderated by the club's own expert Bethany Beech.
Bring your most exciting or confounding milky cap observations and let's figure them out together.
As always we encourage you to use iNaturalist to share your observations - it's a great way to keep track of your finds, and you will be able to participate in these two NYMS projects:
At this free Artshack Community Day, join Artist in Residence Emily Loughlin to learn about mycology and symbiotic forest relationships while coil-building playful vessels for mushroom cultivation. Emily Loughlin's exhibition Biomineral Topographies is on view at Keepsake Gallery through May 2.
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