Searching for Slime Molds on Christmas Island
Stephenson spent two weeks in May researching slime molds on Christmas Island, a territory of Australia.
Steve Stephenson, a research professor in the Department of Biological Sciences of the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, recently returned from a two-week biodiversity survey on Christmas Island, an Australian territory about 220 miles south of the Indonesian island of Java. Stephenson is an expert on myxomycetes, a group of fungus-like organisms commonly referred to as slime molds.
Check the Field Notes section of Research Frontiers for more on Stephenon's trip and his work.
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Steven Lee Stephenson, visiting professor
Department of Biological Sciences
479-575-2869,
slsteph@uark.edu
Bob Whitby, feature writer
University Relations
479-575-4737,
whitby@uark.edu
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