Hi all, wondering if anyone has involvement with, or knowledge about, the Mycota.com project, the MycoMap? I’m busy observing fungi, collecting and drying samples, now trying to figure out how to mail them. But I may have a bigger issue, of how to add to their Project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/the-mycomap-network
Looks like I can import a csv file rather than having to create my iNat obs directly in their project, but how do I export my growing # of fungus obs into a csv file for that? Am not sufficiently tech savvy but want very much to participate in their DNA project in the hopes that I can get fungi properly identified, and also learn from that process. I think this is such a worthwhile and brilliant citizen science project.
Help!.
Hey, glad to see you’re interested in the project! Are you trying to import stuff to mycomap, or to the iNaturalist project? If it’s iNat, I’m presuming you found the CSV upload page here https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/import#csv_import
So I put all my mushroom observations in iNat just like the usual process. Apparently, I have to upload those to the MycoMap project separately, cuz I can’t do so within iNat at the observation page, by selecting their project… or I just don’t see how to do so.
Did you join the project on inat? If you’re referrig to uploading them to a project directly on mycomap, you don’t need to do that - the sequenced observations will be put in the projects on MycoMap by the sequencer for validators to validate and then you’ll get the information back once they have been validated.
But if you join the iNat project you linked you should just be able to add it from the observation like any other project.
@lothlin hi thanks. Yes, I joined the Project on iNat. It seems to require that I add my observations directly at the Project Page, but you’re saying that is not necessary? If that is correct, then my problem remains, where do I send my samples? I can’t find an address!
if you start typing the project name into the ‘add a project field’ it should pop up to select.
Mycota’s protocol can be found here https://mycota.com/continental-mycoblitz/. There are more details in the about section of the iNat project, but if you are in one of the following open call states, you can send in unlimited specimans for free sequencing; otherwise, follow the guidelines on that page I linked.
Arizona
Alabama
California
Florida
Indiana
Michigan
New Brunswick/PEI/Nova Scotia/Newfoundland
Puerto Rico
Rockies - Colorado/Idaho/Montana/Wyoming