>>2659326Most worthwhile mycology work is done in labs rather than field. For field you can get just about anyone with baseline identification skills to take pictures or collect samples. That's the type of stuff undergrad research assistants ,or just regular hobbyists, get sent out to do. All the weird and interesting stuff that fungi do is being studied in labs that do cellular/molecular stuff.
A lot of the mycology hobbyists (that do stuff beyond going out and looking at them) have access to a lab or their own home lab materials to do things ranging from making liquid cultures to running PCR tests.
I hate to be that guy, but its better that you learn that the cool "out in the field" stuff isnt much of a career or even much a part of the careers that do that stuff. The most /out/ degrees i've seen are things like soils, range, wildlife, and forestry. A lot of the amateur mycologists i've met major in Botany (which my university offers, though not much others do) but again they have a big emphasis on the laboratory aspect
T. attend a moderately sized university in the PNW with a large mycology community
