{"id":3336,"date":"2016-10-06T10:26:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/maf-kicks-off-inaugural-year-of-the-mafusmrc-fellowship-program-copy\/"},"modified":"2016-10-06T10:26:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:26:34","slug":"tomorrows-marine-practitioners-meet-policymakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/2016\/10\/06\/tomorrows-marine-practitioners-meet-policymakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow&#8217;s Marine Practitioners Meet Policymakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--themify_builder_static-->University of Rhode Island graduate students enrolled in the school&#8217;s Marine Affairs and Masters of Environmental Science and Management Programs recently attended a special one-day program for Rhode Island\u2019s energy and environmental leaders &#8212; an event organized by Rhode Island&#8217;s U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse &#8212; and met federal lawmakers, including Whitehouse and Massachusetts\u2019 U.S. Senator Edward Markey. CRC Coastal Manager Tiffany Smythe, PhD, serves as the students&#8217; professor and organized their participation in the program.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/MAF-Policymakers.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[3336]\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/MAF-Policymakers.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/a><!--\/themify_builder_static--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Rhode Island graduate students enrolled in the school&#8217;s Marine Affairs and Masters of Environmental Science and Management Programs recently attended a special one-day program for Rhode Island\u2019s energy and environmental leaders &#8212; an event organized by Rhode Island&#8217;s U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse &#8212; and met federal lawmakers, including Whitehouse and Massachusetts\u2019 U.S. Senator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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-3336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}