{"id":2860,"date":"2011-01-09T12:47:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T20:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=2860"},"modified":"2011-01-09T12:47:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T20:47:50","slug":"whats-the-temp-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/01\/09\/whats-the-temp-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the Temp, Doc?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2861\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2861\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/rick-katie-temp-and-secchi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2861\" title=\"Rick Katie temp and secchi\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/rick-katie-temp-and-secchi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/rick-katie-temp-and-secchi.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/rick-katie-temp-and-secchi-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/rick-katie-temp-and-secchi-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: N. Yochum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In order to understand how ocean conditions affect fish populations, researchers need to know something about the state of the water when they count fish.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/seagrant.mlml.calstate.edu\/rick-starr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Rick Starr<\/a> (left) and Ichthyology student Katie Schmidt are getting ready to test the ocean temperature and clarity as part of fishing surveys with the <a title=\"CCFRP\" href=\"http:\/\/seagrant.mlml.calstate.edu\/research\/ccfrp\/central-california-mpa-surveys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California Collaborative Fisheries Research Program.<\/a> Dr. Starr is holding a white sensor that records the temperature of the water as it is lowered from the surface.<\/p>\n<p>In Katie&#8217;s hand is a secchi disc, an extremely high tech instrument that oceanographers have been using to determine water clarity since Pietro Angelo Secchi invented it in 1865.\u00a0 The disc is lowered until it is no longer visible from above the water, and the point at which it disappears is the Secchi depth.\u00a0 It&#8217;s cheap, simple and if it ain&#8217;t broke&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to understand how ocean conditions affect fish populations, researchers need to know something about the state of the water when they count fish.\u00a0 Dr. Rick Starr (left) and Ichthyology student Katie Schmidt are getting ready to test the ocean temperature and clarity as part of fishing surveys with the California Collaborative Fisheries Research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-2860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fish"],"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\/2860","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=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}