Events

Monday, April 8, 2024

• Featured April 8, 2024 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

  Featured Come join us for an in-person ID meeting this Monday April 8


Featured April 8, 2024 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm EDT

Come join us for an in-person ID meeting this Monday April 8

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!

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

No events on this day.

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

No events on this day.

Thursday, April 11, 2024

No events on this day.

Friday, April 12, 2024

No events on this day.

Saturday, April 13, 2024

• April 13, 2024 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

  NYC Nature Drawing Club @ Green-Wood Cemetery


April 13, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT

NYC Nature Drawing Club @ Green-Wood Cemetery

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 […]

• April 13, 2024 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

  NYMS pop-up walk, Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan, Saturday, April 13th


April 13, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm EDT

NYMS pop-up walk, Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan, Saturday, April 13th

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 […]

Sunday, April 14, 2024

• Featured

  Virtual Event

  April 14, 2024 10:00 am - 11:30 am

  Featured Polypore succession 33 years after prescribed fire – a case study from Finland


Featured

Virtual Event

April 14, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am EDT

Polypore succession 33 years after prescribed fire – a case study from Finland

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