Spring has sprung! Mark your calendar to celebrate at our April Monthly Meeting!
The meeting will be held via Zoom (link below). MAWDC President Elizabeth Hargrave will kick things off with updates on club activities and fungi in the news. Culinary Chair April Thompson will share eye candy and showcase MAWDC’s work with edible mushrooms in her new segment, The Kitchen Table. Foray Chair Mitch Fournet will lead the virtual ID table, highlighting recent fungal finds sent in my our members. You can send your pics to Mitch at forays@mawdc.org.
For our short presentation, our own beloved Veep Tom McCoy will discuss the life and many achievements of one of the most important persons in the environmental movement. A native of Pennsylvania and long-time resident of Maryland, Rachel Louise Carson singlehandedly shifted the nation's paradigm to consider the collective damage we, humankind, were doing to the environment. The lasting impact of her book 'Silent Spring' simply cannot be overstated. It's considered one of the most important books in American history, and sparked the beginning of the modern environmental conservation movement. The month of April celebrates Earth Day, and it's the perfect time to learn about one of the icons of environmentalism.
For our main presentation, we are thrilled to welcome Judy Jacob to give a talk, "Lichens, Biofilms, and Marble Monuments." Eroded marble surfaces teem with robust communities of algae, bacteria, and fungi. These communities are viewed variously as aesthetic disfigurements or enhancements. This presentation provides an overview of the surface ecology of marble and relationships between marble, lichens, biofilms, weathering, and erosion.
Judy Jacob is a Senior Conservator with the National Park Service, Historic Architecture, Conservation, and Engineering Center, in New York. She works primarily on stone monuments and masonry buildings in the northeastern United States. A long-term research project focuses on the relationships between lichens, biofilms, and stone as they related to material degradation and preservation.
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