I'm a quiet field mycologist interested in

• visual ID, especially of North American agarics
• relationships among mushroom forms (the simple shape-based categories we sort them into),
• phylogeny/evolution, taxonomy, scientific nomenclature, and common names.

I've been paying attention to mushrooms since 2010.

Things I'm doing:

• I keep track of the genus-level names of agarics and Agaricales, with up-to-date information on their taxonomic placements, nomenclatural status, sequencing status, and so on at www.agaric.us. My thoughts and suggestions for mushroom common names are there too.
• A program I wrote for copying observations from Mushroom Observer to iNaturalist is available. Contact me here or anywhere if you need help using it.
• I'm working on another book! It's a guide to mushrooms of Southern California.

Things I've finished doing:

• A compendium of generic names of agarics and Agaricales
• Audubon Society - Mushrooms of North America (text author)
• NSF "Research Experience for Post-Baccalaureate Students" - 538 mushroom collections in 10 states for Brandon Matheny's lab at the University of Tennessee, with a focus on Inocybaceae
• Hexagon Bio - soil sampling in 6 states, featuring tree ID and a mycological angle

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