{"id":10227,"date":"2016-11-23T12:57:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T20:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=10227"},"modified":"2020-10-15T15:54:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T22:54:23","slug":"the-100th-year-of-the-western-society-of-naturalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2016\/11\/23\/the-100th-year-of-the-western-society-of-naturalists\/","title":{"rendered":"The 100th Year of the Western Society of Naturalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-10227\"  class=\"panel-layout\"><div id=\"pg-10227-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\"><div id=\"pgc-10227-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\"><div id=\"panel-10227-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\"><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\">\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h3>By Vicky V\u00e1squez<\/h3>\n<p>2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsn-online.org\/100th-anniversary-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Western Society of Naturalists<\/a> (WSN) meeting as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/anniversary.mlml.calstate.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">50<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0for Moss Landing Marine Laboratories<\/a> (MLML). Fittingly, this year\u2019s WSN conference saw MLML emeritus professor, <a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/faculty\/mike-foster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Michael Foster<\/a>, receive the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award for crucial work studying the population and community ecology of marine macroalgae.<\/p>\n<p>Six of MLML\u2019s specified laboratories were represented by students, past and present, as well as one faculty member at this year\u2019s WSN conference. A total of 21 presentations were given with 10 being oral presentations and 11 being posters; 11 MLML alumni presented, 12 current students and 1 faculty member. They Phycology and Invetebrate labs led the pack with the most presentations. Below is a list of highlights from those presentations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10321\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10321\" style=\"width: 4032px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10321\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2016\/11\/wsn-group-photo1.jpg\" alt=\"wsn-group-photo\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2016\/11\/wsn-group-photo1.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2016\/11\/wsn-group-photo1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2016\/11\/wsn-group-photo1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2016\/11\/wsn-group-photo1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MLML faculty along with students, past &amp; present, taking a group photo with Lifetime Achievement Award winner Mike Foster. (Photo Source: Heather Kramp).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><p> <a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2016\/11\/23\/the-100th-year-of-the-western-society-of-naturalists\/#more-10227\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Vicky V\u00e1squez 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of the Western Society of Naturalists (WSN) meeting as well as the 50th\u00a0for Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML). Fittingly, this year\u2019s WSN conference saw MLML emeritus professor, Dr. Michael Foster, receive the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award for crucial work studying the population and community ecology of marine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":16225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[203],"class_list":["post-10227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drop-inblog","tag-pacific-shark-research-center"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20480,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10227\/revisions\/20480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}