Dan Meyers has been a fixture in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium since his first year at Carolina. In the autumn of 2017, he volunteered with Herbarium associate Dr. Van Cotter to locate, label, and index type specimens in the Herbarium’s extensive fungal collections. In January 2018, he joined the Herbarium as the Mary McKee Felton Intern, and continued to document our fungal type collections. That work culminated in “Inventory of fungal and other type collections held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill fungal and lichen herbaria (NCU),” co-authored with Cotter and currently under review. “This manuscript is truly a magnum opus,” says Herbarium curator Carol Ann McCormick. “Cotter and Meyers’ manuscript is 116 pages long and details nearly 1000 type specimens, plus another 200 which are new to science but as yet unnamed. Meyers and others in the Fungal Group in the Herbarium have been documenting the fungi found on North Carolina Botanical Garden lands, depositing selected collections in the Herbarium for future mycologists to study.”

Meyers has co-authored two posters at Mid-Atlantic States Mycology Conferences (MASMC) and was a co-organizer of MASMC 2021 held virtually through UNC at CH.