Nawaf Alshammari, a mycologist from Saudi Arabia conducting PhD research at the University of Arkansas, has spent the last two years collecting and identifying forest fungi from several Ozarks preserves, the first study of its kind.
Ozarks Wood-Decay Fungi Subject of U of A Research
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Nawaf Alshammari stands next to his fungi incubator chambers containing charred forest debris.
Jacqueline Froelich / Ozarks at Large
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Tiny fungi sprout on some charred wood inside Nawaf Alshammari's lab.
Jacqueline Froelich / Ozarks at Large
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Fungi samples collected and preserved by Nawaf Alshammari from Devils Den State Park.
Jacqueline Froelich / Ozarks at Large
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Nawaf Alshammari looks through a microscope inside Stephenson Lab on the UA campus.
Jacqueline Froelich / Ozarks at Large
