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Installing rainout shelters
A new GCE experiment on Sapelo will look at how precipitation interacts with disturbance to affect plant and invertebrate community composition. UH graduate student Eamon Hennessy set up rainout shelters in March of 2026 in three vegetation mixtures--Juncus, high marsh meadow, and short Spartina. Treatments are a control, rain reduction, and rain addition (the water diverted from the reduction plot). Within each large plot, sub-plots will receive three different disturbance treatments. Much thanks to Odile, Chloe and the GCE technicians for their help in getting this large experiment set up!
Eamon with rainout shelter in the short Spartina vegetation
(Contact Steve Pennings for additional information)
submitted Mar 25, 2026
