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Shannon Asencio, who works at The New York Botanical Garden\u2019s William and Lynda Steere Herbarium<\/a>, is the Project Coordinator for the Macrofungi Collection Consortium<\/a>. This Garden-led project, involving institutions across the country, will result in a publicly accessible database and digitized images of several hundred thousand specimens of mushrooms and related fungi.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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The beautiful gills of a specimen collected during the NAMA Foray in the Ozarks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A couple of months ago, I attended the 2013 “foray” of\u00a0the North American Mycological Association<\/a> (NAMA), held at Shepherd of the Ozarks in northern Arkansas. I was there not only to participate in the search for mushrooms\u2014mycology is the study of mushrooms and other fungi\u2014but also to deliver a presentation on The New York Botanical Garden’s<\/a> exciting new crowdsourcing initiative.<\/p>\n

These annual forays are a way to record the mycological species that occur throughout North America. The collection data, photographs, and dried specimens are housed at the herbarium of the Field Museum of Natural History<\/a>\u00a0in Chicago. These specimen records provide data about\u00a0the distribution of macrofungi\u2014mushrooms and other large fungi species\u2014in North America and serve as a resource for additional studies, such as DNA research.
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\nA group\u00a0of\u00a0fungi foragers was the perfect audience for my talk about The New York Botanical Garden’s crowdsourcing project. We’ve\u00a0launched a new website that enlists citizen scientists to help digitize the world\u2019s mycological collections, one record at a time!\u00a0We’re working in partnership with Notes from Nature<\/a>, a citizen-science transcription project that involves scientific collections from more than 200 institutions.<\/p>\n

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In our case, the labels of macrofungi\u00a0specimens are filled with meticulously recorded information that has to be transcribed by people, not computers. Contributing to the larger scientific goal of understanding what macrofungi species we have out there, and where and when they were collected, is a great way to help conserve these wonderful marvels of nature. You can lend a hand by getting started today at Notes from Nature<\/a>, and we\u2019ll describe the macrofungi project in more detail in a future post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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