Media Category: PIE

Kylea (left) and Mya (right) discuss how to classify a specific culture.

Kylea shows two fungal cultures of the same morphotype. These beigey-gray, wrinkly fungus, will be stacked together. Later, they will confirm that they are the same species with genetic testing.

Mya reviews fungal trait data from the last several weeks to problem-solve a contaminated culture.

Dr. Kylea Garces (right) and PhD student Mya Darsan (left) enter growth characteristics data, surrounded by their many fungal cultures.

Dr. Kylea Garces looks at a fungal culture in a petri dish.

Researchers measure cordgrass along the Atlantic coast.

PIE-LTER05-proposal

Clockwise from top: Sam Kelsey collecting marsh porewater, October 2020; Sam Kelsey traveling to field sites, October 2020; Inke Forbrich at eddy covariance tower in short Spartina alterniflora marsh, September 2020. Jane Tucker, PIE LTER