Our December meeting will feature Andrew Claassen, presenting “When Water is Scarce: The Niche Fungi of Springs, Seeps, Meadows, and Bogs”.

The meeting will be held on 12/4 from 7-9pm at the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (24 Fellowship Way, Bayside, CA) & streamed via Zoom.

7-7:30: Social time, show and tell (bring your mugs & mushrooms!), and a raffle

7:30-7:45: Zoom begins, club business

7:45-9: Featured speaker

Talk Description:

In this talk we will be covering some of the fungi in California unique to water dense habitats. Because some of these fungi require specific warmer temperatures during the summer months as well as high concentrations of water and other plant life, seeking them in the summertime can offer that dopamine hit we miss when it isn't peak season. As well as living in some very remote habitats, there is often an opportunity to come across something not usually observed and sometimes even undescribed to science.

Speaker Bio:

Andrew Claassen is a mycologist and naturalist based in California. He studied Forest Sciences at Cal Poly Humboldt and is currently continuing his studies at Shasta College. Claassen is actively involved in observing, studying, and logging mycoflora in the region, and he works as a citizen/consultant mycologist for the North American Fungal Diversity Survey and Shasta Spore n' Spawn.

This talk will be streamed via Zoom! Zoom begins at 7:30pm. 

Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81352564072?pwd=zXyMuas8HlCQvYBFwaH9BL3EHiqzV0.1

Meeting ID: 813 5256 4072

Passcode: 523655

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