{"id":352,"date":"2012-06-11T17:28:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T17:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/?p=352"},"modified":"2012-06-11T18:17:32","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T18:17:32","slug":"organisms-ride-debris-to-the-us-boston-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/2012\/06\/11\/organisms-ride-debris-to-the-us-boston-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Organisms ride debris to the US &#8211; Boston.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.boston.com\/2012-06-10\/nation\/32142407_1_invasive-species-tsunami-debris-marine-mammals\">Organisms ride debris to the US &#8211; Boston.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of last year&#8217;s tsunami, a portion of a large, floating dock made its way from Japan to Newport Oregon carrying with it, a diverse marine fouling community.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the article is riddled with mistakes.\u00a0 For example, <em>Spartina<\/em> is not a &#8220;ropey alga&#8221; but rather a vascular plant, common in salt marshes.\u00a0 However, Gayle Hansen, a research phycologist, was quoted as having seen <span class=\"st\"><em>Undaria pinnatifida<\/em> (a.k.a. Wakame) on the float.\u00a0 <em>U. pinnatifida<\/em> has not been reported in Oregon but is considered invasive in California.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organisms ride debris to the US &#8211; Boston.com. As a result of last year&#8217;s tsunami, a portion of a large, floating dock made its way from Japan to Newport Oregon carrying with it, a diverse marine fouling community.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/2012\/06\/11\/organisms-ride-debris-to-the-us-boston-com\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Organisms ride debris to the US &#8211; Boston.com<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4352],"tags":[12383,12384],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-invasive-species","tag-tsunami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/debrobertson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}