Big congratulations to former undergraduate researcher, Marissa Hanley, on publishing her undergraduate thesis in Environmental Science And Pollution Research:
Hanley ML, Vukicevich E , Rice AM, Richardson JB, Uptake of Toxic and Nutrient Elements by Foraged Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms Throughout Connecticut River Valley, New England, USA. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, pp.1-14.
This study was largely based on four weeks of field work across the connecticut river valley, months of laboratory work to identify and process all of the mushroom samples for their elemental concentrations, and months to analyze, interpret, and write up the data with numerous drafts of the study. So a big congratulations is in order indeed!
Every good study is of course a team effort. Alex Rice helped Marissa a lot with field and laboratory methods. Marissa taught me (Justin) much about mushroom identification and had received a lot of field and mycological help from our collaborator Eric Vukicevich at Connecticut College.
