Kelly was a senior at Allegheny College, Meadville, PA. She spent summer 1999 at the Marine Institute as a Research Intern working with me. She determined the patterns of ascospore expulsion of continuously-wet pieces of standing-decaying leaf blades of smooth cordgrass. One key result: cordgrass ascomycetes begin releasing ascospores within 2 hours of wetting of blades, and continue to release them at stable rates for 71h, after which the rate declines between 71 and 120 hours. Publication: SY Newell and K Zakel. 2000. Mycoscience 41:211-215.