{"id":70625,"date":"2002-09-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/friends-of-oceanography-breakfast-lecture-asks-whos-out-there-in-narragansett-bay\/"},"modified":"2002-09-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-09T00:00:00","slug":"friends-of-oceanography-breakfast-lecture-asks-whos-out-there-in-narragansett-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2002\/09\/friends-of-oceanography-breakfast-lecture-asks-whos-out-there-in-narragansett-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends of Oceanography Breakfast Lecture Asks Who\u2019s Out There in Narragansett Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tFriends of Oceanography Breakfast Lecture &#13;<br \/>\nAsks Who\u2019s Out There in Narragansett Bay&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nNarragansett, R.I. &#8212; September 9, 2002 &#8212; The public is invited to attend a free Breakfast Lecture, sponsored by Friends of Oceanog raphy, to be held on Thursday, September 19, at 9 a.m. in the Coastal Institute Building on the 溏心vlog免费B站 Bay Campus. The lecture is part of a series featuring the research of 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) students.&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe September 19 lecture, &#8220;Who\u2019s Out There? Assessing Bacterial Diversity in Narragansett Bay&#8221; will be presented by biological oceanography graduate student Andrew Staroscik of Portsmouth.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\tVery little is known about the total diversity of Narragansett Bay\u2019s bacterial community. Staroscik will describe the DNA-based methods he is using to visualize the bacterial community in the bay and will present his preliminary findings on the diversity in the structure of the bay\u2019s bacterial community.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\tA native of Abington, Pennsylvania, Staroscik received a B.S. in biology and an M.S. in energy and environmental studies from Boston University. Under the guidance of his major professor, Dr. David C. Smith, he studies the microbial ecology of Narragansett Bay.&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe lecture is free and open to the public. Coffee and muffins will be served. For more information, call Friends of Oceanography at (401) 874-6642.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\tFriends of Oceanography is a community-based membership organization established in 1986 to support the educational and public programs of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Graduate School of Oceanography. Friends provides financial support of fellowships for GSO students, and other research, education, and outreach activities. The organization also helps sponsor a variety of special events such as oceanography lecture series, open houses at the Bay Campus, The JASON Project, and the National Ocean Sciences Bowl.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nMedia contact: Lisa Cugini, (401) 874-6642, lcugini@gso.uri.edu\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends of Oceanography Breakfast Lecture &#13; Asks Who\u2019s Out There in Narragansett Bay&#13; &#13; Narragansett, R.I. &#8212; September 9, 2002 &#8212; The public is invited to attend a free Breakfast Lecture, sponsored by Friends of Oceanog raphy, to be held on Thursday, September 19, at 9 a.m. in the Coastal Institute Building on the 溏心vlog免费B站 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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-70625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70625","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=70625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}