This year, the Chicago Field Museum held their annual Member's Night over two days from April 20-April 21. If you were lucky enough to be a member or knew someone that was, you got to roam the museum and also check out behind-the-scenes areas.
This yeah, although I was not looking to go, I changed my mind and stuck around with my BFF as he volunteered in the Botany department where they study lichens.
What's a lichen you may be asking? The U.S. Forest Service defines lichens as a complex life form that is a symbiotic partnership of two separate organisms, a fungus and an alga. The dominant partner is the fungus, which gives the lichen the majority of its characteristics, from its thallus shape to its fruiting bodies. The alga can be either a green alga or a blue-green alga, otherwise known as cyanobacteria. Many lichens will have both types of algae.
You can learn more by going back to U.S. Forest Service link.
My images from the event are below. I thought I was the event social media manager, capturing pictures and sending out Twitter and Instagram live-event posts. :)
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| A visitor becoming a Friend of Fungi! Stickers for Everyone! |
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| The overachievers in Meteorites - created the "Rainbow Bridge." In Norse mythology, Bifröst also called Bilröst, is a burning rainbow bridge that reaches between Midgard (Earth) and Asgard, the realm of the gods. |
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| Water to the rescue! |
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| Good 'ole Darwin |
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