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Paul Stamets

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Paul Stamets
Stamets holding Laricifomes officinalis in 2006
Stamets holding Laricifomes officinalis in 2006
Born ( 1955-07-17 ) July 17, 1955 (age 68)
Salem, Ohio , U.S.
Education Mercersburg Academy
Alma mater The Evergreen State College
Subject Fungi [1] [2]
Website
paulstamets .com

Paul Edward Stamets (born July 17, 1955) [3] is an American mycologist and entrepreneur who sells various mushroom products through his company. He is an author and advocate of medicinal fungi and mycoremediation .

Early and personal life [ edit ]

Stamets was born in Salem, Ohio . [4] He grew up in Columbiana, Ohio with an older brother, John, older brother, Bill, an older sister, Lilly, his twin brother North, and younger siblings. [5] He graduated from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington with a bachelor's degree in 1979. [6] He worked as a logger . [6] As of 2013, Stamets was married to Carolyn "Dusty" Yao. [4] He has an honorary doctorate from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland. [7]

Mycological interest [ edit ]

Stamets credits his late brother, John, with stimulating his interest in mycology , [5] and studied mycology as an undergraduate student. [4] Having no academic training higher than a bachelor's degree , Stamets is largely self-taught in the field of mycology. [8] [9]

Stamets received Bioneers Award from The Collective Heritage Institute in 1998 and the Award for Contributions to Amateur Mycology from The North American Mycological Association in 2013. [10] He also received an Invention Ambassador (2014?2015) award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ). [11] [12]

In popular culture [ edit ]

Stamets plays a significant part in the 2019 documentary film Fantastic Fungi , and edited the film’s official companion book, Fantastic Fungi: Expanding Consciousness, Alternative Healing, Environmental Impact [13]

The character Lieutenant Commander Paul Stamets on the CBS series Star Trek: Discovery was named after the real Stamets. The fictional version is an astromycologist and engineer aboard the USS Discovery , and is credited with discovering how to navigate a mycelial network in space using a "spore drive". [14]

Books [ edit ]

  • Psilocybe Mushrooms & Their Allies (1978), Homestead Book Company , ISBN   978-0-930180-03-4
  • The Mushroom Cultivator: A Practical Guide to Growing Mushrooms at Home (1983), Paul Stamets and J. S. Chilton, Agarikon Press, ISBN   9780961079802
  • Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms (1993; 3rd edition: 2000), Ten Speed Press , ISBN   978-1-58008-175-7
  • Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World (1996), Ten Speed Press, ISBN   978-0-89815-839-7
  • Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World (2005), Ten Speed Press, ISBN   978-1-58008-579-3 )
  • Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness & Save the Planet (2019), Earth Aware Editions, ISBN   978-1-68383-704-6 , 978-1683837046
The standard author abbreviation Stamets is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name . [15]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ Myers, Jim (May 26, 2015). "The fungus among us" . The Tennessean . Retrieved July 19, 2015 . Paul Stamets, widely regarded an expert in the fungal world...
  2. ^ Shea, Carolyn (2014). "Following the Mycelial Path to Discovery and Saving the World" . Evergreen Magazine . Retrieved September 5, 2019 . ... as an Evergreen student in the 1970s ... [he entered] into the study of mycology with faculty member Michael Beug ...
  3. ^ Stamets, Paul [@PaulStamets] (July 18, 2020). "Yesterday, I turned 65 years of age" ( Tweet ) . Retrieved February 4, 2024 – via Twitter .
  4. ^ a b c Miller, Kenneth (May 31, 2013). "How Mushrooms Can Save the World" . Discover . Archived from the original on November 15, 2019 . Retrieved September 1, 2019 .
  5. ^ a b Upchurch, Michael (June 13, 2014). "Obituary: John Stamets, photographer of Seattle's ever-changing skyline" . Seattle Times . Retrieved November 5, 2022 . He inspired me on my path into the field of mycology, after his travels to Mexico and Colombia in pursuit of magic mushrooms
  6. ^ a b Isaacson, Andy (November 2009). "Return of the Fungi" . Mother Jones . Archived from the original on December 17, 2019 . Retrieved July 19, 2015 .
  7. ^ Gilmore, Molly (December 6, 2019). "Paul Stamets becomes fungi phenom with acclaimed documentary and Star Trek character" . Retrieved August 19, 2020 .
  8. ^ O'Hagan, Maureen (December 3, 2010). "Meet Washington's spirited mushroom man" . The Seattle Times . Retrieved July 19, 2015 .
  9. ^ Trimarco, James (October 1, 2010). "Can Mushrooms Rescue the Gulf?" . Yes! . Archived from the original on September 20, 2015 . Retrieved July 19, 2015 . He began his career in the forest as a logger, not as a scientist, and holds no degree higher than a bachelor's from the Evergreen State College.
  10. ^ "NAMA Awards" . North American Mycological Association . Archived from the original on September 6, 2019 . Retrieved September 6, 2019 .
  11. ^ "Paul Stamets. Founder, Fungi Perfecti and Host Defense Organic Mushrooms" . AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassadors. Archived from the original on February 8, 2020 . Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
  12. ^ "Inaugural Class of Invention Ambassadors Highlights Need for Innovation" . American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). July 18, 2014 . Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
  13. ^ Catsoulis, Jeannette (October 10, 2019). " 'Fantastic Fungi' Review: The Magic of Mushrooms" . New York Times . Retrieved March 19, 2020 .
  14. ^ "Star Trek's secret weapon: a scientist with a mushroom fetish bent on saving the planet" . CBC Investigates . CBC . Retrieved November 5, 2022 .
  15. ^ International Plant Names Index .  Stamets .

External links [ edit ]

Paul Stamets website

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