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Within the last few days there has been a high volume of school related mold stories. These are were all posted  in the last few days (January 9th, 2007)
 ATLANTICVILLE — School nurse says mold in office made her sick - New Jersy
 
FREEPORT — Mold infesting exterior walls at Freeport Middle School has ousted teachers and students […]

Note: If you are not an afficando of bad jokes and puns you may scroll down to the bottom to the heading ”Just the Facts” for a distilled version. 
Mycology is the study of fungi.  Why not then call it Fungology? It appears it was tried once but most freshman kept missing the first “g” and read it as Fun-ology […]

Okay the mold that grew in this couple’s closet isn’t funny, but her reaction and the blog is
 Warning there is some definitely salty language used in her blog, but it’s an entertaining read if you can overlooks a sprinkling of profanity!
 http://cmpriest.livejournal.com/915243.html

 
 
The mold growth above is impressive, based on the writer’s account it germinated and […]

Many common molds found indoors in Hawaii  (aspergillus, cladosporium, penicillium ), have cell walls with an outer-layer of  chitin.  In most molds chitin is the largest single component of the cell wall.  Chitin is a polysaccharide (C8H13NO5) p which makes up the exoskeleton of arthropods (crabs, ants, spiders, etc.) , and as mentioned before numerous molds. 

 Now while its interesting that “bug” and mold […]

Scanning through litereature (Theses, Disseration, studies Etc. ) beginning in about 1998-1999 (from what is readily available via the internet) many of the authors include isopleths ( an isoline on a graph showing the occurrence or frequency of a phenomenon as a function of two variables).   Most frequently germination, general growth, or hyphal growth (over time)  is plotted […]

Dr. Wong is an Associate Professor of Botany, at the Botany Department of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.  His UH-faculty website is located @
http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/wong/ .
In addition to conducting reasearch, Dr. Wong teaches several courses including Botany 135: Magical Mushrooms and Mystical Molds.  The webpage for the class (including syllabus, leacture note, and photographs) is located […]

Several United States  Government agencies maintain websites that have basic information on mold cleanup, mold terminology, and remediation.  I recommend these website because they tend to be conservative, risk adverse, and they generally don’t have an agenda beyond presenting information. They aren’t trying to separate you from hard-earned (or ill-gotten) dollars
 The Environmental Protection […]

The Mayo Clinic maintains an easy to read website (no smiley mold spores) on mold related allergies at:
The Mayo Clinic suggests the following  (My comments are in blue)  :
Prevention
The most important thing you can do to prevent mold allergy is to reduce mold growth in your home. Consider these tips:
Eliminate sources of dampness in basements, such […]

Saturday morning I caught an early flight out to the Big Island (Island of Hawaii) to perform lead air-monitoring for a project.  The contractor was doing some paint surface preparation (not a  full blown abatement) at a school in Laupahoehoe (more or less half-way in-between Hilo and Honokaa).  I had woken up extra early that morning […]

The following images came from a question about how mold grows in wall cavities.  I thought back to several mold remediation projects and investigations I have done this year.  There seems to be some commonality with the distribution of mold type and density.  I will never be a graphic artisit bt hopefully they convey the […]