{"id":133,"date":"2010-04-08T09:48:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T09:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2010\/04\/08\/133\/"},"modified":"2023-09-26T14:33:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T14:33:36","slug":"133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2010\/04\/08\/133\/","title":{"rendered":"A semester at the Duke Marine Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Tahoma, Verdana, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\"> <!--StartFragment--><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Nick Bowling &#8217;12 is spending the Spring 2010 semester at the Duke Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, North Carolina, taking several courses and working on independent research that involves polymerization of barnacle glues on hard substrates and the adverse coagulative compounds used to prevent them from taking hold. This research has many applications such as removing barnacles from boat hulls and preventing them from taking hold in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Nick has also been involved with week-long travel courses offered through the Duke Marine Lab. He went to Singapore for an Urban Tropical Ecology course, then to Trinidad for a course on the Biology and Conservation of Sea Turtles. One of the highlights of Nick\u2019s field expedition in Trinidad involved nesting leatherback sea turtles, shown here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_130\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/04\/p32502191.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/04\/p32502191-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Nesting sea turtles in Trinidad\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/04\/p32502191-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/04\/p32502191-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/04\/p32502191-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/04\/p32502191-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/04\/p32502191-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/04\/p32502191-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/04\/p32502191-1980x1485.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nesting sea turtles in Trinidad<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_132\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/04\/trinidad-turtle_wmk1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-132\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-132\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/04\/trinidad-turtle_wmk1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;You can go anywhere with a degree from Hampden-Sydney College&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/04\/trinidad-turtle_wmk1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/04\/trinidad-turtle_wmk1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;You can go anywhere with a degree from Hampden-Sydney College&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Bowling &#8217;12 is spending the Spring 2010 semester at the Duke Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, North Carolina, taking several courses and working on independent research that involves polymerization of barnacle glues on hard substrates and the adverse coagulative compounds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2010\/04\/08\/133\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}