Take time to celebrate
Photo: Plectania milleri
Despite the incredibly difficult fall we had I want to take a moment and celebrate some recent accomplishments. In November 2021, I was acknowledged in my first scientific publication for the work I am doing with the Pezizales study from the University of Florida. This was a goal of mine since I started this mushroom science adventure and I am so proud of how far I have come in just a couple years.
I have collected and sent in samples to be DNA sequenced. They get to use the data in their study and I get the sequence info on my mushrooms. Plus they are putting my vouchered specimens in the herbarium and giving me credit in the papers that come from my collections. It is a dream come true for this community scientist!
Check out the paper here:
Healy, R.A., Arnold, A.E., Bonito, G., Huang, Y.-L., Lemmond, B., Pfister, D.H. and Smith, M.E. (2021), Endophytism and endolichenism in Pezizomycetes: the exception or the rule?. New Phytol. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17886
In December I gave a talk to the amazing D.O.R.K.S., a group of scientists that get together from all over the world to geek out on their science passions. I talked about art and science with another guest panelist, author Mary Woodbury | https://dragonfly.eco. It was incredible to be on a panel with an eco-fiction author who had loads of interesting recommendations and information on reading and writing fiction.
Take a look at the recording here:
If you want to join in on the D.O.R.K.S. webinars sign up here .
Travel Scholar, a blogger just featured me in their latest post! I was so honored to be interviewed by her and just loved spending hours on the trail moving at a snails pace. If you want to see what it is like going out and looking for mushrooms for science, check out the article. It is a fun read!
https://trailscholar.com/hike-with-a-mushroom-citizen-scientist/
