{"id":174999,"date":"2021-12-10T16:18:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T21:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?p=174999"},"modified":"2021-12-10T16:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T21:22:18","slug":"plastics-are-everywhere-on-the-narragansett-bay-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/walsh-lab-news\/plastics-are-everywhere-on-the-narragansett-bay-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastics are everywhere on the Narragansett Bay Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctoral student, Victoria Fulfer, along with undergraduate student, Nicole Messerlian, have been examining coastal sediments to understand where plastics are present and at what concentrations. 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coastal sediments to understand where plastics are present and at what concentrations. While macroplastic (&gt;25 cm) amd mesoplastic (5-25 cm) are widespread, they are not as ubiquitous and numerous as the tiny fragments and fibers we see everywhere in Narraganset Bay sediments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2568,"featured_media":175017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-walsh-lab-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174999","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\/2568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175009,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174999\/revisions\/175009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}