{"id":4387,"date":"2017-09-21T12:55:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2017-09-21T12:55:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T16:55:04","slug":"tcs-uri-chapter-participates-in-2016-international-coastal-cleanup-at-scarborough-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/2017\/09\/21\/tcs-uri-chapter-participates-in-2016-international-coastal-cleanup-at-scarborough-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"TCS, URI Chapter, Participates in 2016 International Coastal Cleanup at Scarborough Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--themify_builder_static--><\/p>\n<p>On September 16<sup>th<\/sup>, 2017 the Coastal Society\u2019s URI Chapter participated in the 32<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0annual International Coastal Cleanup at Scarborough State Beach in Narragansett. URI students from a number of departments gathered to collect over 80 pounds of plastic bottles, discarded clothes, fishing line, cigarette butts, and more. In order to contribute to the Ocean Conservancy\u2019s 2017 item-by-item Ocean Trash Index, collected marine debris was sorted into categories and counted. Piles of metal cans, straws, fishing gear and napkins were counted and recorded, and then submitted to the Ocean Conservancy\u2019s database.<\/p>\n<p>Other coastal cleanups as part of International Coastal Cleanup occurred throughout Rhode Island, as well as on other coastal locations around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Coastal Society\u2019s University of Rhode Island chapter, and to get involved in future beach cleanups, contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:thecoastalsocietyuri@gmail.com\">thecoastalsocietyuri@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/Coastal-Cleanup2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[4387]\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/Coastal-Cleanup2-150x200.jpg\" height=\"200\" alt=\"Coastal Cleanup2\" \/> <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/Coastal-Cleanup1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[4387]\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/Coastal-Cleanup1-266x200.jpg\" height=\"200\" alt=\"Coastal Cleanup1\" \/> <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/Coastal-Cleanup3.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[4387]\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/Coastal-Cleanup3-150x200.jpg\" height=\"200\" alt=\"Coastal Cleanup3\" \/> <\/a><!--\/themify_builder_static--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 16th, 2017 the Coastal Society\u2019s URI Chapter participated in the 32nd\u00a0annual International Coastal Cleanup at Scarborough State Beach in Narragansett. URI students from a number of departments gathered to collect over 80 pounds of plastic bottles, discarded clothes, fishing line, cigarette butts, and more. In order to contribute to the Ocean Conservancy\u2019s 2017 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4396,"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-4387","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\/4387","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=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}