News:

New Ph.D. Students:

Julia Earl - MS Murray State University

Tom Luhring - MS University of Georgia

Mike Osbourn - MS Marshall University

Shannon Pittman - BS DavidsonCollege

2007-08 MO-LEAP Graduates:

Elizabeth Harper - currently a post-doc with Dr. James Gibbs at Syracuse University

Dan Hocking - currently a Ph.D. student with Kim Babbitt at the University of New Hampshire

Tracy Rittenhouse - currently a post-doc at University of Wisconsin-Madison

LEAP researchers from Maine, Missouri, and South Carolina convene for an annual meeting in Orono, Maine 11-12 August 2006 and visit field sites