Hey there!
Jess is a naturalist, restoration ecologist, educator, and environmental scientist focused primarily in rehabilitating riparian ecosystems to protect water quality, enahance polliator diversity, and supporting rematriation of the Abenaki Peoples.

You can learn more at:
www.mycoevolve.net

Feel free to add identifications to the following INaturalist Projects she tends.

Thie Pine Street Barge Canal Superfund Sites Project involves two adjacent Superfund sites along a canal by Lake Bitawabagok (colonially known as Lake Champlain) that abuts a brownfield site impending development. Our aim is to conserve, restore, remediate, and rematriate this fragile urban wild and model how damaged lands can be repaired and returned to wild, thriiving, biodiverse living libraries. This inventory is part of our multi-pronged approach to recommend to the city an ecologically sound rehabilitation plan.
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/pinestreet-barge-canal-superfund-sites

The Myco-Phytoremediation Pilot at Shelburne Farms documents a formerly degraded riparian buffer, formerly overgrown with buckthorn and laden with legacy phosphorus concentrations. We have begun to restore these areas with mycorrhizal fungi and native polyculture plants that enhance pollinator habitat and are culturall useful to the Abenaki. The cyclical harvest of some of the above ground biomass is an effective form of phytoextraction that contributes to phosphorus mitigation, thereby contributing to water quality protection while offering valuable food, medicine, and craft supplies to Abenaki as harvest ways in their ancestral land. While many of the species are planted in these plots so cannot get to research grade, more than 35 new species have migrated in and several fungi are starting to arise as well. You can read about our data here: https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.uvm.edu/doi/full/10.1111/rec.13671 and another article on four years of plant succession data is on its way!

Thanks for contributing to our inventories as you can .

We are also part of the VT Fungal Species Advisory Council which is slowly figuring out how to document all fungi in this part of the NE bioregion (albeit colonial bordered). In doing so we aim to track trophic diversity, highlight fungal species of concern and their corresponding habitat, as well as patterns in involving succession, phenology, natural community correspondence, and roles in ecosystem resilience.

Grateful to be part of this community!