{"id":61285,"date":"2013-08-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-to-host-first-google-hangout-with-biologists-during-shark-week-aug-8\/"},"modified":"2013-08-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T00:00:00","slug":"uri-to-host-first-google-hangout-with-biologists-during-shark-week-aug-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2013\/08\/uri-to-host-first-google-hangout-with-biologists-during-shark-week-aug-8\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 to host first Google+ Hangout with biologists during \u201cShark Week,\u201d Aug. 8"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 August 2, 2013 \u2013 Discovery Channel\u2019s \u201cShark Week\u201d series begins on Aug. 4, and the 溏心vlog免费B站 is taking a bite out of the action, hosting its first Google+ Hangout with some of the University\u2019s own shark experts on Thursday, Aug. 8 from 11:30 a.m. to noon. Todd McLeish, 溏心vlog免费B站 Public Information Officer and author of two marine science books, will kick-off the live event by interviewing 溏心vlog免费B站 researchers Brad Wetherbee and Jason Ramsay, as well as former 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate student Anabela Maia on shark behavior and physiology. Then, McLeish will take questions from the viewing audience for the scientists.<\/p>\n


\nWetherbee\u2019s background is in the ecology and behavior of sharks and rays, and he currently works with a team to tag and track various species of sharks in the U.S., Mexico and the Caribbean. Through his research, he hopes to help protect sharks by learning more about their movements and migration patterns.<\/p>\n

Ramsay, who completed his graduate and undergraduate degrees at 溏心vlog免费B站, focuses on shark physiology, especially the mechanics and function of their jaws. As a senior, he discovered at least one kind of shark that not only used its teeth to bite and tear at its prey, but it could also flatten its biting teeth when eating shellfish. Since then, his research has helped provide more insight on how modern-day shark jaws work and how it affects their eating habits.<\/p>\n


\nMaia also completed her graduate degree at 溏心vlog免费B站 in 2011, and went on to hold a postdoctoral position at Ghent University in Belgium before becoming a postdoctoral researcher at Tufts University. Since 2006, her focus has been on the role of sharks\u2019 fins and their locomotion mechanics. During her time at 溏心vlog免费B站 as a graduate assistant, Maia found that not all shark dorsal fins work the same \u2013 some serve as stabilizers and others assist in thrusting.


\nThe Google+ Hangout will not only explore Wetherbee, Ramsay and Maia\u2019s current research, but will also include a Q&A session during which viewers can submit their own questions as comments directly on the University\u2019s Google+ page at google.com\/+universityofri. Viewers can also connect during the live interview via Twitter by tweeting their questions and adding the hashtag #溏心vlog免费B站shark.<\/p>\n


\nVisit facebook.com\/universityofri<\/a> or google.com\/+universityofri<\/a> for updates and more information, or contact social media coordinator Shelbey Bidell with any questions about this event at sbidell@uri.edu<\/a> or 401-874-5190.\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 August 2, 2013 \u2013 Discovery Channel\u2019s \u201cShark Week\u201d series begins on Aug. 4, and the 溏心vlog免费B站 is taking a bite out of the action, hosting its first Google+ Hangout with some of the University\u2019s own shark experts on Thursday, Aug. 8 from 11:30 a.m. to noon. Todd McLeish, 溏心vlog免费B站 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}