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This year we will be offering an immersive internship in mycology to Binghamton University students
Dates: July 12 - August 13
Location: East Brook Community Farm, Walton, NY
Interns will gain hands on experience in fungus identification and mushroom cultivation, while living and working alongside the farmers and researchers of East Brook. Daily responsibilities will largely consist of surveying the fungal diversity of the East Brook Valley, but will also include, cooking, cleaning, farm meetings, and other daily necessities. This is an opportunity to experience life on a working farm while honing ecological research techniques. Interns will be listed as co-authors in a fungal biodiversity survey paper to be published in the journal Mycotaxon in the winter of 2022.
Contact:
Theresa Kadish Theresakadish@gmail.com
Skills you will learn
Herbarium
Preservation
Learn how to collect, preserve, and archive fungal specimens for future research
Mycological
Description
Learn how to formally describe fungal observations for peer reviewed publication
Fungal Cultivation
Learn how to propagate and fruit mycelial networks in the context of a working farm
Science Communication
Learn how to effectively communicate scientific knowledge
through online video
Consensus Decision Making
Experience living and working in a non-hierarchical context and collaboratively managing
resources