The Odum/Teal Boardwalk is the light line extending into the smooth-cordgrass ( Spartina alterniflora) marsh (toward the left) from the mainland. This marsh walk has been in place since Gene Odum and John Teal did their very famous work at the Marine Institute in the 1950s-1960s. It is still the site of several research projects, including my current examination of seasonal/interannual patterns of change in saltmarsh-fungal living standing crop and fungal productivity, and Steve Pennings' study of plant competition. The Main Laboratory Building is the big, red- roofed structure at the top; it was converted from R. J. Reynolds' fancy cattle barn in the 1950s. You can just make out part of the white concrete trellis that borders the still-functional tennis court that Howard Coffin built in 1925, just to the right and up from the mainland end of the Boardwalk. The waterway is Southend Creek, which has its mouth near the lighthouse on Doboy Sound. This picture was taken about 2 years after my misting-and-fertilization project was completed -- you can still, perhaps, just make out the fertilized marshgrass plots as darker-green rectangles. See Kneib RT, 1996, The University of Georgia Marine Institute, Georgia J Sci 54:81-89; Newell SY, Arsuffi TL, Palm LA, 1996, Misting and nitrogen fertilization of shoots of a saltmarsh grass: effects upon fungal decay of leaf blades, Oecologia 108:495-502; Newell SY, 2001, Multiyear patterns of fungal biomass dynamics and productivity within naturally decaying smooth cordgrass shoots, Limnology & Oceanography 46:573-583.