The funds requested in this proposal will be used to support two activities. The first will be an intensive collecting/educational event (“Myxo Blitz 2006”) already scheduled for the weekend of July 15-16, 2006. This event, to be based at Purchase Knob, will bring together a group of researchers, educators, students and volunteers who will spend two days carrying out field surveys for myxomycetes in a number of localities on the south side of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This portion of the Park has been understudied in previous efforts to document the distribution and occurrence of these organisms. The second activity will be the development of a series of species pages (to be posted on the DLIA web site) for many of the common myxomycetes known to occur in the Park.

Principal Investigator

PI Name:  Dr. Steven L. Stephenson

PI Organization:  University of Arkansas