BC Museum travelling exhibit on mushrooms

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The Royal BC Museum has a new travelling exhibit on BC mushrooms. Museum travelling exhibits are leased out to museums, libraries, and exhibition halls throughout BC, usually for two to three months at a time.

The exhibit is now at the Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary. Come by the administation building any time it is open (Mon-Fri, 9-3) and see the exhibit. 

The exhibit consists of 16 large panels and 3 exhibit boxes. Two of the boxes contain life-size models of BC’s best edible mushrooms. The artists at the museum did an outstanding job of reproducing the look of the actual mushrooms.

Pictures of the exhibit and further information about it can be viewed here.

Introduction to Mycology UVic on-line course

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UVic Continuing Studies is now offering this on-line course:

 

Introduction to Mycology

This online self-study course will enable you to gain foundational, scientifically-sound knowledge in the field of mycology—the study of fungi. Developed by two experts in the field, Bryce Kendrick and Shannon Berch, this course will guide you independently at your own pace through 10 units so that you can attain an understanding of the features of fungi and the roles they play in pathology, nutrient cycling, agriculture, biological control, food, medicine, forests and our urban environments. You will receive a Certificate of Completion on successfully passing the course.

https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/science-and-ecological-restoration/courses/introduction-to-mycology#/t0-0

The fee for the course is $65.00 for the general public and $35.00 for SVIMS members. All they need to do is click on the SVIMS tab when registering to get the discount.

Omphalina

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Omphalina is the newsletter of Foray Newfoundland and Labrador. It has several issues a year that talk about mushroom topics of interest to people anywhere. Sometimes it will be a regional mushroom discovery or an account of a foray in Newfoundland – Labrador. Or it could be mushroom cooking or artwork. You can read the most recent issue or any of the back issues by clicking on Omphalina here or clicking on the front cover above. 

Oluna and Adolf Ceska Mycology Award

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UBC Giving Day is April 7, 2021. There is an opportunity to contribute on or before that date to the Mycology Award started in the Ceskas’ names in 2015 and supporting mycological research.

 

From Adolf’s page on Facebook:

The late Jean Johnson started the UBC Oluna and Adolf Ceska Mycology Award to appreciate our friendship and mutual respect. With contributions by Jean’s husband Steve, anonymous donors, South Vancouver Island Mycological Society and Vancouver Mycological Society, donations reached the minimum of $30,000 required for the fund endowed in perpetuity.

This fund supports a $1,350 award for undergraduate or graduate students who conduct mycological research, with preferences going to students researching mushrooms and fungi of British Columbia.

UBC will have their 2021 GIVING DAY on April 7. Please be part of it and contribute to this student award. Make your donation on or before April 7, 2021, and your gift will be counted towards the UBC Giving Day total.

You can donate online at https://donate.support.ubc.ca/page/56413/donate/1

In the “Direct my gift to” prompt, enter the following line:

Oluna and Adolf Ceska Award in Mycology-G1453

[Entering G1453 works too, but typing the name of the award is insurance.]

Since the beginning of this award (2016/17), the “Ceska Fund” has supported four or five valuable projects in the UBC Mycology graduate studies.

Your help is greatly appreciated! Many thanks!

Adolf and Oluna Ceska

 

Further links provided by Adolf Ceska:

award_photo.pdf (ou.edu)

Botanical Electronic News – 498 (ou.edu)  For this link you will need to scroll down to the article by Shannon Berch

Roy Halling

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Members might be interested in this webinar with Roy Halling on Friday, March 12, 2021 called A Bolete Story: 50 years of Macrofungi.

You need to register online – note that the event starts at 11:00 EST which is 8 am in BC.

Dr. Halling studied boletes in the Sierra Nevada under Harry Thiers and later the genus Collybia (most of which migrated to Gymnopus and Rhodocollybia). He has been managing editor of the prestigious journal Mycologia and President of the Mycological Society of America. Dr. Halling is associated with the New York Botanical Garden.

https://nybg-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_t6lYm2-DTKqWpjP5vyCCNg

Anne and Jim Ginns land protected near Thetis Lake Park

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An ecologically diverse 23 hectare parcel of land bordering Thetis Lake Regional Park is now officially protected by the Habitat Acquisition Trust (HAT).

For nearly 50 years it was owned by Anne & Jim Ginns, who always wanted to see the land permanently protected.

The Ginns donated a significant portion of the value of the property to HAT to achieve this goal, the Trust said in the statement.

An article in the Times – Colonist adds further details. A few incorrect details in the article have been corrected above.
https://www.timescolonist.com/search-results-7.2864?q=ginns

Dr. Jim Ginns is a mycologist living in Penticton. He has made presentations to SVIMS several times and is a member of the Pacific Northwest Key Council. He is the author of numerous scientific publications including Polypores of British Columbia (Fungi: Basidiomycota).
https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/pubs/Docs/Tr/TR104.htm