The San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden is excited to welcome Christian Schwarz back to the Garden! Christian is a well-known expert in the field and author of ‘Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast’ and the newly released, ‘Mushrooms of Cascadia’. If you’ve heard Christian speak before, you know he’s a fascinating and knowledgeable speaker. And if you haven’t heard him before, you’re in for a treat!
Over the past two years, the California Institute for Biodiversity has funded and supported the California Fungal Diversity Survey — a conservation-focused initiative to document fungi across the state with a very high level of systematic rigor. During the course of this project, non-professional collectors have generated a huge amount of information, yielding fascinating new discoveries, and suggesting areas for future research. Christian will provide an overview about what we’ve learned, what we hope to learn, and what the future holds for California’s fungi.
Schedule for the evening:
6:00 Doors Open
6:30 Lecture Begins
8:00 Book signing – there will be books for sale at the event or order ahead for yourself
Member’s please enter: “memberten” for $10 off / membership will be verified
Instructor Christian Schwarz studied Ecology and Evolution at UC Santa Cruz, where his interest in the world of fungi became irrevocable. Although he is passionate about ecology and biodiversity in general, Christian is most well-known as a field mycologist. He has co-authored two field guides — Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast and the upcoming Mushrooms of Cascadia, both with Noah Siegel. He primarily spends his time seeking, photographing, collecting, teaching about, and publishing research on North American macrofungi, and has served on the IUCN Red List Working Group for North American Fungi. He is a research associate of the Ken Norris Center for Natural History at UC Santa Cruz, where he teaches undergraduate courses in mycology and community science.
