Shelby Meckstroth presented our paper: "The amelioration of grazing and burial through physiological integration by a clonal dune plant" at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists held in Myrtle Beach, SC (Mar 28-31). The paper was part of a symposium on coastal ecosystems called "Ecology in a High Speed Landscape" organized by Julie Zinnert (Virginia Commonwealth Univ.) and Charles Kwit (Univ. of TN Knoxville). As part of the meeting, Shelb

This Spring Break, we trekked to Sapelo Island, Georgia with Dr. Evans for an intensive, week long course entitled Coastal Ecology and Conservation. Sapelo Island is reached by a short ferry ride and has a rich history filled with Native Americans, plantation owners, the Hog Hammock Community whose inhabitants are known as Gullah-Geechees and a strong tradition of ecological research at the University of Georgia Marine Institute, where we stayed. A highlight of the course w