Danny Newman

Danny Newman

Jan 08, 2018

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We're on Colossal!

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/01/ecuadorian-fungi/

Today we were featured on the excellent art and design blog, Colossal, a long-time favorite of both mine and Roo's. We reached out to its founder, Christopher Jobson, a few days ago, wondering if this was the sort of thing the blog would feature, and on short notice at that. The site receives hundreds of submissions per day, and the quality of their content is truly top notch. You can imagine, then, how honored and humbled Roo and I were to hear back from them within 24 hours with the desire to go forward with a feature piece. At the time of writing, the Facebook post on Colossal's page has close to 500 likes and over 200 shares. That page's readership is nearly one million, which is to say nothing of visitors to the site itself or Colossal's presence on other social media networks. This is just the kind of press that can take crowdfunding campaigns like ours over the threshold, and we could not be happier!

A toast to fungi forever and spores evermore!

Cheers!

-Danny & Roo

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About This Project

Of an estimated 3.2 million species of fungi, only some 120,000 are known to science. Most of the undescribed species reside in the tropics. In 2014, myself and a fellow mycologist, Roo Vandegrift, collected some 350 samples of fungi from Reserva Los Cedros; one of the last unlogged watersheds on the western slope of the Andes. We are now looking to begin the microscopic and molecular analysis portions of our research, with the goal of publishing on our findings.

Blast off!

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