Myxo Blitz 2006
Myxo Blitz 2006
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.
The funds provided by DLIA grant #2006-02 were used to support two activities. The first of these was an intensive collecting/educational event (“Myxo Blitz 2006”) held in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the weekend of July 15-16, 2006. The event, which was based at the Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center at Purchase Knob, brought together a group of researchers, educators, students and volunteers who spent two days carrying out field surveys for myxomycetes in a number of localities on the south side of the Park. This portion of the Park has been understudied in previous efforts to document the distribution and occurrence of myxomycetes. More than 220 specimens that had fruited in the field under natural conditions were collected. The second activity was the development of a series of species pages (to be placed on the DLIA web site) for many of the common myxomycetes known to occur in the Park. Thirty-four pages have been completed thus far, and the goal is to complete numerous additional pages in the near future.
