Presentations | Mushroaming - Daniel Winkler's Webpages Dedicated to Mushrooms and Nature Tours

During all my journeys I used to take hundreds of slides with my Nikon SLR, now I am using a Nikon D850 and D7200, succeeding my D5000 and D80. The D850 allowed me to do photo stacking, which produces incredible sharp images of especially tiny subjects, see some examples on my Suriname Gallery. A selection of my photos can be found in many of the trip reports on my homepage and on Tibet specifically in the photo essay section. The photos before 2006 have been scanned slides.

I enjoy greatly sharing my photos, information and anecdotes from my trips and tours (read reviews). My interest are diverse and as a trained geographer and ecologist I like to bring in all kinds of aspects and do not limit myself narrowly to the title subject. Many years ago a neighbor who came along for a talk said "Daniel, that was so entertaining and packed with information, like listening to NPR", I felt flattered, but I think he was not a regular NPR listener. More recently I thought the label "edutainment" is pretty fitting, since I share lots of scientific information presented in an entertaining way with plenty of funny moments.

PRESENTATIONS

Mushrooms and Beyond

Fungal Fruits

Fungal Fruits of the Forest - Edible Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest - see "Fruits of the Forest" webpage

Choice Edible Mushrooms of the West Coast - see PNW edible mushroom webpage

Unusual Edible Mushrooms of the PNW & Beyond

Medicinal Mushrooms - How to collect, process & use them - see my field guide

Best of Mushroaming - An intoxicating blend of precious mushrooms

Tibet's Most Marvelous Mushrooms - See a dozen pages with Tibet content on the webpages

Tales of Tibet's Fungal Miracle - Ophiocordyceps sinensis - Caterpillar Fungus

Cordyceps summary paper (not the actual presentation)

Mountains, Monasteries & Mushrooms - Tibet's globally unique Mushroom Economy

Amazing Amazon Mushrooms - link to Amazing Amazon Fungi

Colombia's Mushroom Magic - link to subtitled photo galleries: 2014 & 2015

Stunning Suriname - link to subtitled photo galleries: 2014 & 2015

Flavorful, Fancy & Foul Fungi - From Far Flung Places Around The World Summary

From the Alps to the Amazon via Tibet

Bhutan's Buddha Mushroom and Other Fungi in the Land of the Thunderdragon Bhutan 2018 Gallery Bhutan page

Mushroom Festivals out West - from Alaska to California and from Oregon to Colorado

Stunning Stinkhorns

And before fungi took over my life 10 to 20 years ago, I specialized on environmental issues in Tibet

Tibet:

My 90 min shows on Tibet include sections on Tibetan life (monasteries, Buddhism, culture, architecture, etc.), rural livelihood and survival strategies (nomadism, agriculture, medicinal plants, mushrooms), and the environment (vegetation, climate, geography, medicinal and other wild flowers, forests, wildlife and hot springs). In addition I am documenting modernization taking place and talk about project work I am currently involved in. Often I select a certain cultural or political area (i.e. West Sichuan, Gyarong, Dechen, Kham, Amdo, Changtang, Lithang, Lhasa, Kongpo etc.) or just the best slides of the most recent trips. Also, I offer presentations with a specific focus on certain subjects such as mushrooms, mushroom markets, wild flowers, forests, architecture, hot springs etc. Of course, even with a narrowly focused main subject I will integrate it in a wider framework. I guess that comes with being a trained geographer....

Natural Treasures of Tibet - Summary

Wild Flowers & Tales from East Tibet

Alpine Plants, Flowering Plants of Tibet, Medicinal Plants etc.

Forests & Forestry in Tibet

Hot Springs and Sacred Wells in Tibet

Wildlife and Conservation

Tibetan Farmhouses, Fortresses and Monasteries

Nomads and Farmers

Tibet: Environmental Crisis on the Roof of the World?

Regional Focus

Bhutan - The Land of the Thunderdragon

Kongpo - Nyingchi: Tibet's Himalaya

Central Tibet: Lhasa, Tsetang and Shigatse

Kham - Eastern Tibet: Treasure House of Cultural and Natural Diversity

Litang & Derge - Tibetan strongholds in Ganzi Prefecture, West Sichuan

Arunachal Pradesh: Land of the Rising Sun - India's Last Frontier

Silk Road: Xinjiang & Pakistan's Hunza

Nepal & Sikkim

If you want me to give a presentation, please contact me.

Daniel's short fungal biography:

Daniel grew up collecting and eating wild mushrooms in the Alps and is sharing his enthusiasm as a mushroom educator, photographer and guide. Daniel just published his “Fruits of the Forest – Field Guide to Pacific Northwest Edible Mushrooms” (available at mushroaming.com), a product of a life time of mushroom hunting, the last twenty five years in the PNW. Previously he published a series of fold-out field guides: Edible Mushrooms of the PNW, Edibles of California (both Harbour Publishing), and co-authored Amazon Mushrooms, and Medicinal Mushrooms of North America, as well as MycoCards "Boletes of Western North America". In his presentations he is combining his stunning photography with a blend of entertaining stories and scientific information. Daniel managed to bend his career as an ecologist and geographer focused on High Asia towards researching Tibet's enormous fungal economy. His ethno-mycological Cordyceps research has been featured in National Geographic, New York Times, The Economist, NPR, BBC World Service etc. In the last decade Daniel started exploring neotropical fungi. With his travel agency MushRoaming Daniel is organizing mushroom focused eco-adventures since 2007, current destinations are Bhutan and Colombia. [www.mushroaming.com]

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