David Rust, FFSC member and BAMS co-founder, was given the President’s Outstanding Service Award at the annual foray of the North American Mycological Association in Louisiana last month.
The award is given to those who have been of outstanding service to NAMA. David follows in the footsteps of Ben Woo and Orson and Hope Miller, last year’s recipients.
His biggest project was the complete revamping of the NAMA website, www.namyco.org. Take a look (view the archived version from 2009) — he did a fantastic job! Closer to home, David has created site specifically tailored to the Fungus Fair. So David is appreciated across North America, but particularly here in Northern California.
Another bit of awards news from NAMA to the Bay Area: Jennifer Kerekes was the recipient of the 2009 NAMA Memorial Scholarship in the amount of $2000. Jennifer is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Dr. Tom Bruns. Her dissertation project is entitled Diversity and ecology of saprotrophic fungal communities in Californian grassland and forest ecosystems.
