Category: Citizen Science
iNat Founder Quits
2026 Jan 07 Many OMS members use iNaturalist’s citizen-science platform to record or identify their finds. iNaturalist is in many ways the brainchild of Ken-Ichi Kueda. Kueda is an iNaturalist co-founder who played a leading, continuing role in creating and developing its software. In…
Still Wanted: Amanita smithiana
2025 Aug 24 Dr. Colleen Cowdery, with support of an OMS Maggie Rogers Grant, is continuing her study of Amanita smithiana (Smith’s Amanita). You can help by collecting samples and sending them to Dr. Cowdery. A. smithiana is a toxic Pacific Northwest mushroom…