Spring Fungi of the Sierra Nevada
6 June - 11 June, 2004
Class Schedule
Sunday Evening, 6 June
- 8:00 pm Introductory Lecture and Slide Show
Monday, 7 June
- 8:30 - 10:30 am Lecture: Introduction to the Classification of Higher Fungi;Macromorphological Features of Higher Fungi
- 10:45 - 2:30 pm Field Trip
- 3:00 - 6:00 pm Lab: Introduction; Microscope use; Techniques; Macro- features; How to use the Keys; Work on collections
- 8:00-9:00 Lecture: Ecological Diversity of Sierran Fungi
Tuesday, 8 June
- 8:30 - 10:30 am Lecture: Micromorphological Features of Higher Fungi
- 10:45 - 2:30 pm Field Trip
- 3:00 - 6:00 pm Lab: Micromorphological features; Work on collections
- 7:00 - ? Lab: Work on collections
Wednesday, 9 June
- 8:30 - 10:30 am Lecture: Spring Basidiomycetes: agarics & boletes
- 10:45 - 2:30 pm Field Trip
- 3:00 - 6:00 pm Lab: Work on collections
- 8:00 - 9:00 pm Lecture: TBA
Thursday, 10 June
- 8:30 - 10:30 am Lecture: Spring Basidiomycetes: polypores, coral fungi, jelly fungi, puffballs, hypogeous fungi, secotioid fungi;
Spring Ascomycetes
- 10:45 - 2:30 pm Field Trip
- 3:00 - 6:00 pm Lab: Work on collections
- 7:00 - ? Lab: Work on collections
Friday, 11 June
- 8:30 - 10:00 am Independent Study or Independent Field Trips
- 10:00 - 1:00 pm Final Exam [for students taking the course for college credit]
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm Clean-up
- 3:00 pm Class Dismissed
Laboratory Assistant: Amy Honan and Denise Gregory, San Francisco State University