| Mushrooms of Field and Forest , Fall 2007 |
| Field trip: Wed 1:25-4:25, meet in front of Plant Science |
| identification lab: Wed 7:30-9:30, room 326 Plant Science |
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That's right, all Kent's boroscope and macro images are available to you on the computer in the lab. You can browse and edit them using Adobe Photoshop Elements. You've got the computer login instructions somewhere.
Visit our class flickr site to view photos taken on each field trip. You can download your favorite photos for the collection assignment or for your records. If you have photos of your own you'd like to upload, email them to Prof. Hodge or talk to her in lab.
You can use flickr photos directly in your blog without first downloading them. Find the photo you want to use and click it so it stands alone on the page. Above it you'll find a little button that says "all sizes." The Medium size is perfect for us. Copy the link for the medium-size photo. Now insert it into your blog text using the "link" button above the wordpess text box. When you're done it should look something like this: <img class="left" src="http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1605860513&size=m" alt="itty bitty Mycenas" /> (Tip, I inserted that class="left" bit to get the image to align to the left margin). See?
flickr is a public photo sharing site, and our photos are viewable by the general public, so please do not post any personal information or photos of recognizable faces. You can add information to the photos by posting comments in flickr.
Field Mycology meets Wednesday afternoons and evenings for the first half of Fall semester. We travel to various forests around Ithaca to collect mushrooms, then return for an evening lab session in which we learn to identify and appreciate them. You'll use microscopes and keys to identify the things you collect.
It's a pretty fun course, I think, but it's serious enough to be listed at the 300-level. Grades are based upon a collection assignment, a quiz, and a final practical exam. No auditors are allowed, I'm afraid, unless you are an alumna/us of the course.
If you are really interested in fungi (who wouldn't be?) consider taking PLPA 309, Fungi, at the same time. It's fun too.
| Books for the course |
| I strongly recommend you purchase a mushroom field guide for use in this course. We'll have a couple of extra copies (from Mann Library). I can't guarantee the Campus Store will have enough copies for all, so go ahead and purchase one of these on your own: |
| Mushrooms of Northeastern North America, by A. Bessette et al. Syracuse University Press, 1997 (softcover) ISBN: 0815603886 (this book is comprehensive, has keys, is technically the best, but has smallish photos-nevertheless my favorite) |
| National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms, by G. Lincoff. Knopf (Chanticleer Press), 1981 (softcover) ISBN: 0394519922 (this book is mostly photos, is pocket-sized, but covers fewer species, is a tad outdated, and has no keys-your call) |
| The above links are to Amazon.com. Feel free to find your own source - best would be a friendly locally-owned bookstore. |
| NOTE: If you already own a mushroom guide, you can probably use it, so long as it isn't too old (pre-1980s), or from Europe. Check with me if you're not sure. |
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