-
What’s it like taking a field course at the Chincoteague Bay Field Station?
Check out the student-made video from Marine Bio 2024 below to find out! Interested in what CBFS has to offer for Summer 2025? Check out the course listings here: http://www.cbfieldstation.org/summercollegecourses.htmlRegistration is now open for all college students!
-
Coastal and Marine Mycology: 3 weeks of fungal exploration on Virginia’s Eastern Shore!
I will be teaching Coastal and Marine Mycology, a summer field course for undergraduate students, at the Chincoteague Bay Field Station this summer, from June 30th – July 19th. Registration is now open! I’ve created an FAQ sheet below to help provide more details about the course! If you have any questions at all, please…
-
Amphibians, bats and reptiles, oh my! Five fungal diseases that are wreaking havoc on wildlife biodiversity
When you work with fungi, it’s hard to ignore just how prevalent they are in our lives. Bread, beer, cheese, wine, and even the “good” fungi that help our crops grow, show that our society couldn’t function without this kingdom of life. But what fungi giveth, fungi can also taketh away. In fact, fungi are the…
-
Experiment.com: What is Fusarium, anyway?
If you’ve been following along with my “Sea turtle egg fusariosis” campaign for the last 2 weeks, you’ve heard a lot about Fusarium infecting sea turtle eggs. But, what is Fusarium exactly? We know it’s a fungus, but does it do anything other than infect sea turtle eggs? Of course it does! Here are a few fantastic facts…
-
Experiment.com: $10 from 200 people!
51% funded! What an exciting first week-and-a-half it has been! I’ve been overwhelmed by the support thus far, thank you to all those who have donated and shared information about my project…. Read the rest of this post here!
-
Experiment.com: So, what’s a NERRS site anyway?
As I began planning this project, one of the most challenging questions I faced was “how am I going to choose where to sample?”. As it turns out, picking a state was easy. 90% of the Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) nesting in the United States occurs in Florida. Attempting to narrow down where in Florida I might try to sample, I stumbled across…
-
Experiment.com: The characteristic canoe-shaped spores of Fusarium
Check out the first lab note from my experiment.com campaign here.
Smyth Mycology 