ADAMSON, ELORA

Elora is an environmental educator and a graduate student studying mycology and community science in British Columbia (BC). She coordinates the MycoMap BC project, which collected 25,000 specimens in its first year and continues to grow. She also works for the BC Biodiversity Program as a field mycologist documenting and collecting fungi in BC’s parks. Her research combines community science, iNaturalist and DNA barcoding to scale up methods for documenting fungal diversity and build a comprehensive list of macro fungi species in BC. She’s happy to give talks about organizing local DNA barcoding projects, iNaturalist and mycology and BC fungal diversity.