Alan Rockefeller specializes in mushroom taxonomy. He has been collecting mushrooms for ten years, and has traveled to Mexico to collect mushrooms for the past 6 summers. Alan is a network security expert, a moderator at the Shroomery Mushroom Hunting and Identification Forum, and posts all of his mushroom photographs on mushroomobserver.org. When he is not hunting mushrooms Alan spends his time looking at mushrooms under the microscope, soldering electronics, hacking unix and sequencing mushroom DNA.