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Monday, February 12, 2024
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Featured February 12, 2024 -Featured Come join us for an in-person ID meeting this Monday!
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Come join us for an in-person ID meeting this Monday!
Next Monday's ID meeting will take place from 6.30 to 8.30 at Paul and Juniper's apartment in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
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!
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
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Wednesday, February 14, 2024
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Thursday, February 15, 2024
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Friday, February 16, 2024
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Saturday, February 17, 2024
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February 17, 2024 -Come join us for our annual business meeting!
Come join us for our annual business meeting!
Like every winter, we will be holding a business meeting where we'll share our plans for the year and debate the hot topics of the day. […]
Sunday, February 18, 2024
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February 18, 2024 -February 18th, Kissena Park, Queens Pop-up walk CANCELLED.
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FeaturedVirtual EventFebruary 18, 2024 -Featured Myxomycetes at Black Sugarloaf, northern Tasmania – a slime mo(u)ld hotspot
February 18th, Kissena Park, Queens Pop-up walk CANCELLED.
Join us for a walk in Kissena Park, Queens this Sunday, February 18th!
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Myxomycetes at Black Sugarloaf, northern Tasmania – a slime mo(u)ld hotspot
The taxonomic position of slime moulds has baffled naturalists and scientists for centuries. When “the father of taxonomy” Swedish botanists Carl Linneus devised his system of classification he included slime moulds (and fungi) in the plant kingdom. Slime moulds were subsequently placed in various kingdoms but are now regarded as amoebozoans.
Sarah Lloyd has observed slime moulds in a eucalypt forest at Birralee Tasmania for 13 years. It is now considered a hotspot for myxomycetes, with over 120 species documented from the site including 4 hitherto undescribed species, one new genus and more new species awaiting further study. In this webinar Sarah will discuss these and also describe the important ecological roles of slime moulds.
Sarah Lloyd has had a lifelong love of birds, and since 1988 when she moved to live in a forest at Black Sugarloaf, Birralee in central north Tasmania, an interest in plants, bryophytes, fungi and slime moulds. She has contributed to several citizen science projects including the Australian Bird Count, and Fungimap, a project to record Australia’s undocumented fungal species. It was through Fungimap that Sarah was introduced to slime moulds. In 2019 she was awarded an OAM (Order of Australia medal) for “services to conservation – and slime moulds”. She is author of numerous books, including Where the Slime Moulds Creep (4th Edition, 2022).
