{"id":14046,"date":"2022-06-15T14:48:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T18:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/?p=14046"},"modified":"2022-06-15T15:02:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T19:02:34","slug":"uriww-working-with-uri-researchers-on-microplastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/uriww-working-with-uri-researchers-on-microplastics\/","title":{"rendered":"URIWW working with URI researchers on microplastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14048 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1667\/Microplastics-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"URI researcher ready to sample microplastics near the RV Endeavor\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1667\/Microplastics-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1667\/Microplastics-768x390.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1667\/Microplastics-364x185.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1667\/Microplastics-500x254.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1667\/Microplastics.jpg 857w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Did you know that microplastics &#8211; tiny bits of plastic that are shed by our clothes or the result of weathering\/breaking down of the now nearly ubiquitous plastic waste found in the environment &#8211; can be found in waterbodies throughout the world? Researchers at URI are working to learn more about microplastics in RI&#8217;s freshwater, and engaging URIWW volunteers in the process. To learn more about this they have created a great video that you can watch here by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z_iXoypzVQ4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Want to learn more about microplastics? Check out this article in Nature (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-021-01143-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that microplastics &#8211; tiny bits of plastic that are shed by our clothes or the result of weathering\/breaking down of the now nearly ubiquitous plastic waste found in the environment &#8211; can be found in waterbodies throughout the world? Researchers at URI are working to learn more about microplastics in RI&#8217;s freshwater, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14046"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14050,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14046\/revisions\/14050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/watershedwatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}