{"id":3794,"date":"2017-07-13T12:43:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T16:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/?p=3794"},"modified":"2017-07-13T12:43:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T16:43:15","slug":"kyle-alvanas-maf-bs-18-is-sailing-to-remote-islands-in-the-pacific-ocean-to-study-climate-change-effects-on-coral-reefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/2017\/07\/13\/kyle-alvanas-maf-bs-18-is-sailing-to-remote-islands-in-the-pacific-ocean-to-study-climate-change-effects-on-coral-reefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Alvanas (MAF BS &#8217;18) is Sailing to Remote Islands in the Pacific Ocean to Study Climate Change Effects on Coral Reefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--themify_builder_static--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/ssv_seamans2.jpg\" alt=\"SSV Robert C. Seamans. Photo courtesy of Sea Education Association.\" \/> SSV Robert C. Seamans. Photo courtesy of Sea Education Association.<br \/>\n Kyle Alvanas, who will graduate next year with a BS degree in Marine Affairs, is making a voyage to the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) with Sea Education Association, or SEA Semester, an internationally recognized program that combines classroom learning on shore at Woods Hole, Mass., with study aboard a research vessel.\u00a0PIPA is one of the last remaining coral wildernesses on Earth. Little is known about the region. About the size of California, it is the largest\u2014and deepest\u2014United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations site, with eight fauna-rich coral atolls.\u00a0Alvanas and the other students started the program June 12 at Woods Hole, where they completed preparatory coursework and developed their own research projects in ocean science or conservation policy.\u00a0This week, the students began a five-week sailing voyage as crewmembers and scientists aboard the SSV Robert C. Seamans, owned and operated by the Sea Education Association. The 134-foot brigantine is one of the most sophisticated oceanographic research sailing school vessels built in the United States&#8230;[<a href=\"https:\/\/today.uri.edu\/news\/uri-students-sail-to-remote-pacific-islands-to-study-effect-of-climate-change-on-coral-reefs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>]<!--\/themify_builder_static--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SSV Robert C. Seamans. Photo courtesy of Sea Education Association. Kyle Alvanas, who will graduate next year with a BS degree in Marine Affairs, is making a voyage to the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) with Sea Education Association, or SEA Semester, an internationally recognized program that combines classroom learning on shore at Woods Hole, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3800,"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-3794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794","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=3794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}