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Winter Spartina experiment underway
GCE researcher Jessica O'Connell is directing an experiment in which we're growing Spartina aquaponically (roots in water) to determine how over-wintering plants respond to different levels of "soil" temperature, salinity and nutrients. Graduate student Alyssa Hockaday (Pennings lab) is running the experiment day to day at Sapelo. The greenhouse was built from a kit by our handy GCE technicians, and will be available in the future for other projects.
The hydroponic Spartina
The beautiful greenhouse
(Contact Steve Pennings for additional information)
submitted Dec 20, 2021
