{"id":165785,"date":"2021-01-28T14:24:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T19:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?p=165785"},"modified":"2021-02-01T10:44:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T15:44:42","slug":"thank-you-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/publications\/aboard-gso\/thank-you-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_165914\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165914\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/AGSO-Card_McMunn-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-half_column wp-image-165914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/AGSO-Card_McMunn-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/AGSO-Card_McMunn-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/AGSO-Card_McMunn-364x364.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/AGSO-Card_McMunn.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-165914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Endeavor&#8217;s<\/em> outgoing captain Everett &#8220;Rhett&#8221; McMunn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Captain Everett \u201cRhett\u201d McMunn has served as R\/V <em>Endeavor\u2019s<\/em> master for more than 30 years. He is retiring as the long\u00adest serving captain of any vessel in the nation\u2019s academic fleet. <\/p>\n<p>Director of Marine Operations Tom Glennon observed: \u201cHaving worked closely with Captain McMunn for the past two decades, I am continuously impressed with his range of knowledge in all aspects of marine operations. I have always been able to rely on Rhett to help support Endeavor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dave Palazzetti, Director of Narra\u00adgansett Bay Campus Facil\u00adities and Operations and himself a retired U.S. Coast Guard officer, adds: \u201cRhett\u2019s ability to assess the situation and balance what can safely be completed without sacrificing the necessary sample collections is legendary throughout the oceanographic community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince arriving in 1982, Rhett has made major contributions to our oceanographic program and the repu\u00adtation of GSO, URI and Rhode Island. He has been a wonderful ambassador to visiting scientists and students and a mentor to countless scientists and mariners over the course of his career,\u201d observed Dean Emeritus Bruce Corliss.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion of his retirement, the entire GSO community of scientists, faculty, students, alumni and staff extends its heart\u00adfelt gratitude to Captain McMunn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Everett \u201cRhett\u201d McMunn has served as R\/V Endeavor\u2019s master for more than 30 years. He is retiring as the long\u00adest serving captain of any vessel in the nation\u2019s academic fleet. Director of Marine Operations Tom Glennon observed: \u201cHaving worked closely with Captain McMunn for the past two decades, I am continuously impressed with his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2120,"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":[7,2741,2403],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aboard-gso","category-fall-2020","category-issues"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166063,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165785\/revisions\/166063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}