Since there is limited seating available, please register for this event.
For our first in-person monthly meeting since the pandemic, we'll have the great pleasure of hearing from one of the best, Britt Bunyard. Britt's bio, photo and overview of his talk are pasted below, but let me cut straight to the chase - this is going to be a fantastic show!
We'll have a show-n-tell table available, so bring along your recent finds (good condition specimens only please) so we can share the knowledge. Also, please be aware Britt will have copies of his books for purchase as well as some free copies of his wonderful 'Fungi' magazine. What fun(gi) we're going to have!
Title: A Resilient Planet Needs Fungi NOW!
Overview: Fungi are weird, fungi are cool, and fungi are beautiful. But how much do we really know about them? For starters, they do much more than just rot things. They control pretty much all life on our planet and are everywhere. Britt Bunyard’s lecture will present fascinating stories and beautiful photos of amazing fungi featured in his new book, The Lives of Fungi, A Natural History of Our Planet's Decomposers published by Princeton University Press. Discover the crazy, wonderful life that goes on all around us, mostly hidden in plain sight. For general audiences, no knowledge of mycology required.
Brief bio for Britt Bunyard
Britt Bunyard, PhD, is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal Fungi. Britt is a former university professor and has published over 100 academic and popular science papers. He has served as an editor for mycological and entomological research journals, and mushroom guide books. Britt has collected fungi and lectured throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia. A popular evangelizer on all things fungal, Britt has been featured on the BBC World Service’s Newshour, NPR’s All Things Considered, PBS’s NOVA and Wisconsin Foodie television programs; and interviewed or quoted in Discover magazine, The Atlantic, National Geographic, Vox, Vogue, Forbes, Saveur, Eating Well, Hobby Farm, Women’s World, and other magazines and newspapers.
Britt serves as Executive Director of the Telluride Mushroom Festival. He has authored several books, including The Lives of Fungi (2022; Princeton University Press), The Beginner’s Guide to Mushrooms (2021; Quarry Books), Amanitas of North America (2020; The FUNGI Press), Mushrooms and Macrofungi of Ohio and Midwestern States (2012; The Ohio State University Press), and most recently The Little Book of Fungi (coming in 2024; Princeton University Press). In 2021 Britt was awarded the Gary Lincoff Award “For Contributions to Amateur Mycology,” by the North American Mycological Association—NAMA’s most prestigious honor for American mycologists
Zoom Link for Sunday's meeting:
https://zoom.us/j/96693690911?pwd=YWdyeXh1bHF1N1UyNjNieFovNWFUZz09
Meeting ID 966 9369 0911
Passcode 330827
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