The weather is warm and the 2023 mushroom season is almost here! Join us in celebrating the first month of spring!

 The meeting will be held via Zoom (link below). 

MAW President Elizabeth Hargrave will kick things off with updates on club activities and fungi in the news. Foray Chair Mitch Fournet will lead the virtual ID table, highlighting recent fungal finds sent in by our members.  You can send your pics to Mitch at forays@mawdc.org.

Next up, Amy Wrobleski, a graduate student at Penn State and one of our scholarship recipients, will tell us about the project she's working on and how we can help!

Our headliner for the night is the fabulous Noah Siegel! His talk is titled: “Under Pressure: Evolution Oddities in the Fungal World.” This lecture will highlight some of the fascinating traits fungi have evolved due to environmental pressures, and the strive to get ahead in the fungal world.

Noah’s field mycology skills are extensive – he has spent over three decades seeking, photographing, identifying, and furthering his knowledge about all aspects of macrofungi. He has hunted for mushrooms throughout the United States and Canada, as well as on multiple expeditions to New Zealand and Australia and Cameroon. He is one of the premier mushroom photographers in the nation, having won numerous awards from the North American Mycological Association (NAMA) photography contest. His technique and attention to detail are unrivaled, arising from a philosophy of maximizing utility for identification purposes while maintaining a high degree of aesthetic appeal. His photographs have appeared on the covers and have been featured in articles of multiple issues of FUNGI Magazine, the primary mushroom enthusiast magazines in the United States, numerous mushroom books, as well as many club publications. He authored, along with Christian Schwarz, Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast, a comprehensive guide for the northern California coast, and A field Guide to the Rare Fungi of California's National Forests. He is currently working on Mushrooms of Cascadia; a reference guide for Pacific Northwest fungi. Noah travels and lectures extensively across America, following the mushrooms from coast to coast, and everywhere in between.

Zoom Link: 

https://zoom.us/j/96693690911?pwd=YWdyeXh1bHF1N1UyNjNieFovNWFUZz09

Meeting ID 966 9369 0911

Passcode  330827

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