General Meeting -- Alan Rockefeller
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Join us for our monthly meeting! We gather at the Harvey West Scout House for refreshments and informal mushroom ID from 7:00 – 7:30. Organizers will then provide updates on future forays and other activities, followed by our speakers. Bring along your sense of curiosity and any mushrooms you've found and would like help identifying.
Alan Rockefeller's is our speaker. His subject will be Mushrooms of Mexico 2013, showing the best of 50 gigs of photos taken during this summer's travels. There will be photos of edible, poisonous and hallucinogenic mushrooms, mushroom hunters and fungus fairs from southern Mexico. If you've followed Alan's accounts on the FFSC Google group, you'll surely want to attend this talk.
Alan is a mycologist studying the mushrooms of California and Mexico.H e has been focusing on the taxonomy and photography of Mexican mushrooms for the past seven years. Alan recently returned from five months of collecting in Mexico with extensive field work in the states of Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, District Federal, Morelos, Puebla, Veracruz and Oaxaca. When he is not photographing mushrooms he is busy sequencing fungal DNA, photographing the microscopic features of mushrooms, hacking computers, modifying electronics and working in the IT Security field.