{"id":3109,"date":"2016-07-01T15:46:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T19:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/?p=3109"},"modified":"2016-07-01T15:46:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T19:46:18","slug":"prof-dalton-takes-the-helm-from-robert-thompson-who-served-as-department-chair-for-six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/2016\/07\/01\/prof-dalton-takes-the-helm-from-robert-thompson-who-served-as-department-chair-for-six-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Dalton takes the helm from Robert Thompson who served as department chair for six years."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We welcome Tracey Dalton as the new Chair of the Marine Affairs Department. \u00a0Prof. Dalton came to URI in 2002.\u00a0 She teaches undergraduate courses including Human Use and Management of the Marine Environment and Coastal Zone Management as well as graduate courses on the management of marine protected areas.\u00a0 Her research covers a variety of topics that relate to human interactions with coastal &amp; marine systems.\u00a0 Currently she is working on projects with colleagues and student researchers to better understand Rhode Islanders\u2019 views on shellfish aquaculture, user interactions in RI\u2019s salt ponds, use of emerging technologies in coastal monitoring, and the impacts of off-shore wind farms on recreational activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prof. Dalton takes the helm from Robert Thompson who served as department chair for six years. Thanks, Prof. Thompson, for all your hard work!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/Tracey-photo-July-2016.jpg\"  rel=\"lightbox[3109] attachment wp-att-3110\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3110\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/Tracey-photo-July-2016-283x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tracey photo July 2016\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We welcome Tracey Dalton as the new Chair of the Marine Affairs Department. \u00a0Prof. Dalton came to URI in 2002.\u00a0 She teaches undergraduate courses including Human Use and Management of the Marine Environment and Coastal Zone Management as well as graduate courses on the management of marine protected areas.\u00a0 Her research covers a variety of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}