Alan Rockefeller
Researcher and Photographer
Alan is a researcher, educator, consultant and speaker specializing in DNA bar-coding, field photography, and fungal microscopy. With a bilingual proficiency developed over 15 years of studying mushroom diversity in Mexico, he leads forays across North America, sparking interest and discovery. His extensive contributions to community science include teaching many mushroom DNA, photography and microscopy workshops and identifying over 300,000 fungi online. As of today, Alan has uploaded more than 700 of his own fungal DNA sequences to Genbank, and he is a co-author on several scientific papers, including publications documenting new species of bioluminescent Mycena and Psilocybe.
Alan Rockefeller
Mushrooms of Mexico
Sunday, January 14, 2018
3:00 PM
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4:00 PM
Room 1
Mushrooms of Mexico
Sunday, January 13, 2019
3:00 PM
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4:00 PM
Room 1
Mushrooms of Mexico
Saturday, January 11, 2020
2:45 PM
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3:45 PM
Room 1
How to Sequence Fungi
How to turn a DNA sequence into useful information and demonstration of how to build a phylogenetic tree.
Saturday, January 11, 2020
4:00 PM
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5:30 PM
Room 3
DNA Workshop
Participants will complete all the steps to generate DNA sequences of the interesting mushroom collections that have been brought into the fair,
Sunday, January 12, 2020
4:00 PM
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5:30 PM
Room 3
Bioluminescent and Fluorescent Fungi
These types of mushrooms are both beautiful and scientifically fascinating. This presentation has hundreds of high quality photos and photography tips for both types…
Friday, January 10, 2025
2:30 PM
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3:30 PM
Room 3
Decoding the Forest Floor: The Art of Mushroom Recognition
Sunday, January 12, 2025
10:00 AM
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11:00 AM
Room 1
Revealing Fungal Secrets: Apps and Programs for Mushroom Discovery
In this talk, Alan Rockefeller will demonstrate powerful Android and iPhone apps, websites, and computer programs that help mushroom enthusiasts, researchers, and photographers explore…
Friday, January 9, 2026
2:30 PM
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3:30 PM
Room 3
Past Santa Cruz Fungus Fair Talks
Revealing Fungal Secrets: Apps and Programs for Mushroom Discovery
In this talk, Alan Rockefeller will demonstrate powerful Android and iPhone apps, websites, and computer programs that help mushroom enthusiasts, researchers, and photographers explore and document the fungal kingdom. Phone apps help us find signal in remote areas, navigate terrain, identify birds, document biodiversity and more. Advanced photography techniques enable world-class images to be captured quickly without extensive post processing, while easy barcode analysis methods allow even beginners to leverage DNA sequence data to get the most out of iNaturalist. These tools bring the underground world of fungi into the light.
Santa Cruz Fungus Fair
Friday, January 9, 2026
2:30 PM
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3:30 PM
Room 3
Decoding the Forest Floor: The Art of Mushroom Recognition
Santa Cruz Fungus Fair
Sunday, January 12, 2025
10:00 AM
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11:00 AM
Room 1
Bioluminescent and Fluorescent Fungi
These types of mushrooms are both beautiful and scientifically fascinating. This presentation has hundreds of high quality photos and photography tips for both types of glowing mushrooms, and includes information on using a UV light to identify mushrooms.
Santa Cruz Fungus Fair
Friday, January 10, 2025
2:30 PM
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3:30 PM
Room 3
DNA Workshop
Participants will complete all the steps to generate DNA sequences of the interesting mushroom collections that have been brought into the fair,
Santa Cruz Fungus Fair
Sunday, January 12, 2020
4:00 PM
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5:30 PM
Room 3
How to Sequence Fungi
How to turn a DNA sequence into useful information and demonstration of how to build a phylogenetic tree.
Santa Cruz Fungus Fair
Saturday, January 11, 2020
4:00 PM
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5:30 PM
Room 3
Mushrooms of Mexico
Santa Cruz Fungus Fair
Saturday, January 11, 2020
2:45 PM
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3:45 PM
Room 1
Mushrooms of Mexico
Santa Cruz Fungus Fair
Sunday, January 13, 2019
3:00 PM
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4:00 PM
Room 1
Mushrooms of Mexico
Santa Cruz Fungus Fair
Sunday, January 14, 2018
3:00 PM
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4:00 PM
Room 1