About me
Amy is a mycologist interested in fungal systematics, evolution, ecology, and biogeography. She received a B.S. in Biochemistry from Western Colorado University in Gunnison, CO where she studied the population genetics of the root pathogen Armillaria and water chemistry of the Mt. Emmons Iron Fen. She then attended San Francisco State University where she completed an MS under Dr. Dennis Desjardin. While at SFSU, she studied the fungi of SE Asia. Her master's thesis investigated the evolution of the saprotrophic genus Basidiomycete genus Tetrahydro. She then earned a Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. Her dissertation studied the evolution and ecology of stalked puffball genus Tulostoma. She is teaching Mycology and Fungal Ecology for Oregon State University and is the president of the Crested Butte Botanic Gardens. She is currently working with several mycological groups in Colorado documenting the fungal biodiversity and the ecology of fungi from the Rocky Mountains.
