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With over a decade of experience in bioremediation research and community-based environmental health initiatives, she specializes in the use of fungi to degrade pollutants and restore contaminated ecosystems. Danielle’s work bridges science, practice, and policy, with a focus on building partnerships across communities, academia, and government. Her PhD research identified effective plant-fungi combinations for cleaning up polluted sites and launched a youth training program now expanding nationally. As current Head of R&D at a fungal biotech startup, she leads research into plastic mycodegradation for landfill environments. She founded and runs the Centre for Applied Ecological Remediation (2024), leading research and workforce development in ecological cleanup with fungi, as well as D.I.Y. Fungi (2012), offering myco-education, fungal spawn and research into fungal applications in food, medicine, and remediation and Healing City Soils (2015), providing soil testing and bioremediation resources for urban growers. She serves on California's Department of Toxic Substance Control's Treatment Technology Council and the Board of Corenewal, and numerous other projects and initiatives, contributing globally to land and water regeneration and community education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec0dbcb901e7f328f141051/1589757590990-VG3OM98B9OL3JZMT9YWF/Danielle%2Bat%2Bgradslam.jpg Home - “What can communities do about pollution in their watersheds and foodsheds ?” This question has driven me since I was a youth. I partner wildly to address social and environmental problems with innovative, interdisciplinary collaborations. https://www.danielle-stevenson.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-04-07 https://www.danielle-stevenson.com/aboutme daily 0.75 2025-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec0dbcb901e7f328f141051/5df6bbb2-f8d4-49fc-b2bb-9d29f31b6cfe/Danielle+posing+at+field+site+post+remediation.jpg About Me - About Danielle Danielle Stevenson is a multidisciplinary scientist, mycologist and environmental problem-solver who works with soils, fungi, plants and people to address waste and pollution in creative and circular ways. She has over 15 years of experience in research, design, implementation and management of bioremediation projects. Danielle holds a PhD in Environmental Toxicology from the University of California, Riverside, and her dissertation was about “Phyto-Mycoremediation of Brownfields in Southern California”. She is the founder and director of D.I.Y. Fungi (since 2012) offering mycological education, consultation, mushroom cultures, and mycoremediation and waste management research, and Healing City Soils (est. 2015) with the Compost Education Centre to provide soil metal testing, resources, and community bioremediation for people growing food. She founded a youth Bioremediation workforce development program with Friends of the LA River which is now in its third year and is expanding with similar community trainings around California. Danielle currently serves on the Department of Toxic Substances Control's Equitable Community Revitalization Grant (ECRG) Treatment Technology Council (TTC) and the Board of Corenewal. Danielle is passionate about science communication and community science and her collaborative projects bridge fields and disciplines from art, ecology, soil science, policy, toxicology and remediation, not unlike the mycorrhizal fungi she studies which bridge plant communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec0dbcb901e7f328f141051/a0366d30-c8e2-4760-887c-c26909d4a050/with+willow.JPG About Me - Mission Statement I do impactful work to address interconnected environmental problems of waste and soil and water pollution, especially where they interact with food systems, ecological systems and community well-being. Comfortable in the lab, the greenhouse and the field, I am most excited about working on contaminated sites and developing applications to address toxic wastes and soil and water pollution in ways that are ecologically regenerative, community-accessible, impactful, and scalable. I share my knowledge and expertise about soil science, plants, fungi, microbes, ecology, bio-phyto-and myco-remediation and restoration, waste management, agriculture, farming and food systems through offering: education consulting, and collaboration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec0dbcb901e7f328f141051/1589739955920-XJ2PGXJ32O9K8QN4U7PX/excited+mushroom+leaders+and+learners.JPG About Me - Values Driven I value applied scientific approaches that bridge ecological remediation and restoration and engage communities in collaborations involving industry, government, citizens, community organizations and academic institutions. I work in ways that build local capacity, skills and resources to regenerate healthy soils, waters, landscapes in ways that support economic, physical, and ecological well-being regionally. My approaches seek to truly address pollution and contamination, and that integrate multiple stages and tools as appropriate, and are generative and responsive to and driven by local needs and objectives. . https://www.danielle-stevenson.com/resume daily 0.75 2024-07-10 https://www.danielle-stevenson.com/new-page daily 0.75 2025-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec0dbcb901e7f328f141051/0ef76c01-e83d-4a57-9e81-721bfe34e512/Portfolio+NAHR_Danielle+Stevenson+copy_Page_2_Image_0001.jpg Publications - Academic Publications: Danielle Stevenson, Mia R. Maltz, Tania Kurbessoian, Nicholas Shapiro, Linton Freund, Emma L. Aronson, Jason E. Stajich, Samantha C. Ying. Soil drivers of fungal, bacterial and plant diversity in contaminated Southern Californian sites: Implications for dryland bioremediation. Science of the Total Environment. 2025. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969725019977 Stevenson, D. et al. Field Testing of a Novel Myco-phytoremediation Approach on Three Brownfields in Los Angeles. In preparation. 2025. Kurbessoian T, Stevenson D, Haro R, Ying S, Stajich JE.2024. Draft genome sequence of a black yeast fungus Exophiala xenobiotica isolated from La Brea Tar Pits. Microbiol Resour Announcements: 13:e00913-23. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00913-23 Deborah Pagliaccia, Danielle Stevenson, et al. 2020. Two food waste byproducts selectively stimulate beneficial resident citrus host-associated microbes in a zero-runoff indoor plant production system. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2020.593568/full Allen, M. (2022). Mycorrhizal Dynamics in Ecological Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781139020299 (*I did the figures and references). Purchase the textbook at: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/mycorrhizal-dynamics-in-ecological-systems/E8274B14077EB1A84463B6D70A45C111 Extension and Outreach: Victoria Compost Education Centre (2020) forthcoming Fact Sheet. Phytoremediation for Urban Gardeners. Public Lab (2019). Soil Wiki with resources about soil testing for contaminants, soil contaminants and more. Available at: https://publiclab.org/wiki/soil Victoria Compost Education Centre. (2016) Fact Sheet #11: Understanding Soil Contamination. Available at: https://compost.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/11-Soil-Contamination-Fact-Sheet-updated-2021.pdf Victoria Compost Education Centre. (2016) Fact Sheet #12: Best Practices for Healthy Urban Gardens. Available at: https://compost.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/12-Best-Practices-for-Healthy-Urban-Gardens-Fact-Sheet-updated-2021.pdf The Times Colonist (June 7, 2015) Op-ed “To Grow Food In the City, Heal the Soil First.” Available at: http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/op-ed/comment-to-grow-food-in-the-city-heal-the-soil-first-1.1959804 My work(writing, research and/or photographs) are featured in: The Regenerative Landscaper. Erik Ohlsen. Synergetic Press (August 22, 2023). In Search of Mycotopia. Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms. Doug Bierend. Chelsea Green Publishers. 2021. My research involving mycorrhizal fungi is featured in ‘Root Worlds’. https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/in-search-of-mycotopia/ New Farmers Almanac (2020), Vol V: The Grand Land Plan. Article: The Essential Invisible: Fungi in Soil Remediation. https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-new-farmers-almanac-volume-v/ DIY Mushroom Cultivation: Growing Mushrooms at Home for Food, Medicine, and Soil. Willoughby Arevalo (2019). 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