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SUMMARY:MSSF General Meeting - Christian Schwartz
LOCATION:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89184389640?pwd=N2x0V25JNkZaRHZoQ3VBVGJyYURuZz09, Zoom Meeting ID: 891 8438 9640, [Zoom Phone] 669-900-6833
DESCRIPTION:MSSF General Meeting - Christian Schwartz\n\n01/20/26 06:30 PM PST\n - 01/20/26 09:00 PM PST\Description:\nOn the third Tuesday of each month from September thru May, the Mycological Society of San Francisco hosts a General Meeting open to Members and the public.  The Society has maintained our schedule of events using electronic media, Zoom, to meet and share our mission to educate about the kingdom of Fungi.\n\n\nIn-person meeting at the Randall Museum\nDoors open at 6:30pm\nHospitality hour and ID of mushroom specimens in the Buckley Room.\nAt 7:20pm everyone moves to the Theater. General meeting and Zoom session start at 7:30pm.\nFirst Announcements are made followed by the featured presentation of the evening and attendee questions.\nWe wind up at 8:30pm, people who are able-bodied help stack chairs;\nthe room needs to be cleared by 9:00.\n\n\nGeneral meetings are open to the public.\n\nTalk Title: Aotearoa: Ecology of a Young Land\n\Details:\nDescription:\nAotearoa — the land more commonly as New Zealand is young in many ways: In recent geologic history, it nearly drowned after splitting off from the Australian continent, and it was the last bit of Earth’s land to be\ninhabited by human beings. This island nation is a wild and wondrous place — very different from anything familiar to a resident of the Northern Hemisphere. We’ll talk about the holistic ecology of the place, using fungi as a lens to understand the bigger picture.\n\nBio:\n\nChristian Schwarz is an educator and naturalist from California. He primarily spends his time seeking, teaching about, and publishing research on North American macrofungi, and is always interested in the 'big pictures' of ecology, evolution, and biogeography. He's co-authored two field guides — Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast and Mushrooms of Cascadia (both with Noah Siegel). He is a research associate of the\nSanta Barbara Botanic Garden, as well as the Ken Norris Center for Natural History at UC Santa Cruz, where he has taught undergraduate courses in mycology and community science.\n\n \Location:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89184389640?pwd=N2x0V25JNkZaRHZoQ3VBVGJyYURuZz09\nZoom Meeting ID: 891 8438 9640\n[Zoom Phone] 669-900-6833,
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:MSSF General Meeting - Christian Schwartz<br /><br />01/20/26 06:30 PM PST - 01/20/26 09:00 PM PST<br />Description:<br /><p><img alt="Agaricus hondensis" src="http://mssf.org/photos/49265_01102019141653.jpg" />On the third Tuesday of each month from September thru May, the Mycological Society of San Francisco hosts a General Meeting open to Members and the public.&nbsp; The Society has maintained our schedule of events using electronic media, Zoom, to meet and share our mission to educate about the kingdom of Fungi.</p>

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<p style="text-align: center;">In-person meeting at the <a href="https://randallmuseum.org/">Randall Museum</a><br />
Doors open at 6:30pm<br />
Hospitality hour and ID of mushroom specimens in the Buckley Room.<br />
At 7:20pm everyone moves to the Theater. General meeting and Zoom session start at 7:30pm.<br />
First Announcements are made followed by the featured presentation of the evening and attendee questions.<br />
We wind up at 8:30pm, people who&nbsp;are able-bodied help stack chairs;<br />
the room needs to be cleared by 9:00.</p>

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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>General meetings are open to the public.</em><br />
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<strong>Talk Title:&nbsp;</strong>Aotearoa: Ecology of a Young Land</p>
<br />Details:<br /><strong>Description</strong>:
<p>Aotearoa&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;the land more commonly as New Zealand is young in many ways: In recent geologic history, it nearly drowned after splitting off from the Australian continent, and it was the last bit of Earth&rsquo;s land to be<br />
inhabited by human beings. This island nation is a wild and wondrous place &mdash;&nbsp;very different from anything familiar to a resident of the Northern Hemisphere. We&rsquo;ll talk about the holistic ecology of the place, using fungi as a lens to understand the bigger picture.</p>
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<strong>Bio</strong>:

<p><strong>Christian Schwarz </strong>is an educator and naturalist from California. He primarily spends his time seeking, teaching about, and publishing research on North American macrofungi, and is always interested in the &amp;#39;big pictures&amp;#39; of ecology, evolution, and biogeography. He&amp;#39;s co-authored two field guides &mdash; Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast and Mushrooms of Cascadia (both with Noah Siegel). He is a research associate of the<br />
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, as well as the Ken Norris Center for Natural History at UC Santa Cruz, where he has taught undergraduate courses in mycology and community science.</p>
<img alt="" src="https://mssf.org/photos/Christian_Schwarz_12282025223500.JPG" style="float:right; width:398px" /><br />
&nbsp;<br />Location:<br />https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89184389640?pwd=N2x0V25JNkZaRHZoQ3VBVGJyYURuZz09<br />Zoom Meeting ID: 891 8438 9640<br />[Zoom Phone] 669-900-6833,  
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