{"id":4052,"date":"2024-06-21T16:12:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T20:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/macrl\/?p=4052"},"modified":"2025-09-03T06:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:10:14","slug":"jon-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/macrl\/jon-nelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Jon Nelson, Research Associate IV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0Dr. Jon Nelson works in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/macrl\/\">Marine Affairs Coastal Resilience Lab<\/a>\u00a0on several ongoing projects, including serving as Director of the National Science Foundation The Community-Driven Coastal Climate Research and Solutions (3CRS) Hub. Jon is\u00a0originally from a Kansas farming family but has called Rhode Island my home for ten years. He completed a BA in Sociology at the University of Kansas and then moved to Providence to enroll at Brown University where he earned his doctorate in Sociology. His dissertation addressed structural, political, and economic factors\u2019 influence on Rhode Island coastal communities\u2019 adaptation to sea-level rise.\u00a0He has also worked on reforestation in Brazil\u2019s Atlantic Forest and on family agriculture in Kansas.\u00a0Before coming to URI, he was a professor of Environmental Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design from 2022-24 and taught environmental and organizational sociology at Brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Dr. Jon Nelson works in the\u00a0Marine Affairs Coastal Resilience Lab\u00a0on several ongoing projects, including serving as Director of the National Science Foundation The Community-Driven Coastal Climate Research and Solutions (3CRS) Hub. Jon is\u00a0originally from a Kansas farming family but has called Rhode Island my home for ten years. He completed a BA in Sociology at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5129,"featured_media":4053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-becker-group"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/macrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/macrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/macrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/macrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/macrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4052"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/macrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4147,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/macrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions\/4147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/macrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/macrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/macrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/macrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}