About Us

My name is Timothy Hudelson, proud husband to a beautiful woman, Christine, and proud father of two fantastic daughters, Willa and Zoey. I was born and raised in Wyoming and spent my informative, college years (plus a decade or so extra) in the Pretty Great State of Utah. In my early career, I was the Mosquito Control Officer for Teton County, WY. Short stints for various jobs offered me the opportunity to see other places in the world - a winter as a seasonal employee for the state of California Department of Fish and Game studying duck nesting habitat at Kern National Wildlife Refuge and Mendota Wildlife Area; a summer as a fisheries biologist on North Revillagigedo Island, Alaska studying the impact of anadramous salmonids into the historically land-locked Margaret Lake basin; a summer in Montana as a roofing contractor; two and a half years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Masindi, Uganda, and Butula, Kenya, where I worked at the district level around the development of environment action planning (Uganda) and at the community level around wetland management (Kenya); a summer as a field hand at the Ecological Restoration Institute of Northern Arizona University studying forest habitat and restoration. But, I managed to always find my way back to the region of the US that holds my heart, the Intermountain West...until...that is...I graduated with my Masters in Plant Science from Utah State University, where I worked under Dr. Bruce Bugbee, with an emphasis in Crop Physiology, my focus project was ethylene perception in crop plants in controlled environments.

Christine was born and raised in northern California and spent her informative, college years at UC Santa Cruz, where she specialized in lichens while gaining her BA in Biology. After graduating, she enjoyed stints of time in Oregon working on lichen surveys, in Capital Reef, UT looking for the rare pediocactus, as a volunteer at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. working to catalog their vast lichen collection, and two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kenya. Due to the composite structure of lichens as a symbiotic relationship between fungus (hmm...) and algae and her strong knowledge of mushrooms, Christine is our resident fungus expert!

Upon my graduation (actually about half a year before), Christine and I moved to North Carolina, where I have worked as a Crop Physiologist and phenotyping expert, and Christine continued her career as an advocate supporting victims of sexual and domestic violence before transitioning to become a RN and Ambulatory Care Nurse at Duke Mohs Clinic. We've been in NC ever since, living in Durham. During our stay, our family has grown to four members with the births of Willa in 2007 and Zoey in 2009. One of our most favorite hobbies is to hike on the trail hunting (visually, so far) mushrooms and taking photographs of them. We have a budding project wherein we would like to document what we've seen where, when, and under what conditions. Please see said page of this site for our evolving results.

Among my other hobbies and skills are writing; mechanics; hiking; hunting; fishing; darts; leathercraft; and now long distance running.

This whole site is a work in progress. More later for all the family who make up "us".