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Taco Tuesday with Christian Schwarz

Taco Tuesday with Christian Schwarz

The Underground Internet, 30 Years Later

By now, almost everyone's heard of "Wood Wide Webs" — invisible forest networks through which trees, fungi, and other organisms communicate and exchange resources. This concept has been covered extensively in mainstream news and popular science outlets, and has even made its way into movies and fiction! But where did this idea come from? What do we actually know about how it works? We'll talk about the history of the metaphor, take a look at the existing body of research, examine recent challenges to the idea from modern findings, and think about what directions future investigations might need to take. 

Presenter:

CHRISTIAN SCHWARZ (he/him) is an itinerant naturalist from California. He is co-author of "Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast” as well as "Mushrooms of Cascadia". Fungi satisfy his curiosity with their endless forms – from the grotesque to the bizarre to the sublime – and provide a rich lens through which to learn about the bigger pictures of ecology and evolution. He loves fish, plants, nudibranchs, moths, and dragonflies, and is passionate about community science.

Event Schedule:

  • 5:15 pm: Doors & optional taco dinner

  • 6:15 pm-7:30 pm: Christian's Talk

  • 7:15 - 7:45 pm Q&A and book signing

  • 7:45 pm Event ends

What to Bring

  • a water bottle

  • notebook (if you like to take notes)

Location and Accessibility

Berkeley, CA  Exact address is provided with registration. 

This is a wheelchair accessible space with an elevator.  

We acknowledge this land is the traditional and ancestral land of the Ohlone people.

Ticket Options

Event tickets include the talk only. (Pay separately for tacos; you will be emailed later about how to buy them)

Adults

  • $38 Pay it Forward (I'd like to support someone else to come)

  • $27  Standard Ticket

  • $16 Community Supported (these are supported by Pay it Forward tickets) 

Children (recommended for age 8 and up)

  • $12 per child (under 18) 

A portion of your ticket fee goes to Sogorea Te' Land Trust, an urban Indigenous women-led land trust based in the San Francisco Bay Area that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people. Whether you can join us for this program or not, we encourage you to donate to them here.