[4] Longcore then went back to the University of Michigan to work for Sparrow before marrying and becoming a full-time mother to her two sons.
[5] Nearly 20 years later in 1984, Longcore entered graduate school at the University of Maine with Dr. Richard Homola, a basidiomycetes expert, and received her PhD in 1991.
[3] Throughout 1996 and into 1997, the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC was tracking large scale die offs of poison dart frogs due to an unknown skin disease.
This discovery led to the research that Longcore and her colleges would publish in 1999 describing this species of chytrid, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis[7].
[2] In 2017, Longcore, along with colleagues Elaine Lamirande, Don Nichols, and Allan Pessier, received The Golden Goose Award for isolating and describing Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.