{"id":3038,"date":"2011-01-27T19:03:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T03:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2011-01-27T19:03:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T03:03:28","slug":"come-dive-along-with-us-at-catalina-island-csumb-mlml-join-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/01\/27\/come-dive-along-with-us-at-catalina-island-csumb-mlml-join-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Come Dive Along With Us at Catalina Island: CSUMB and MLML Join Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3039\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3039\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/mlml_csumb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3039 \" title=\"MLML &amp; CSUMB join forces at USC Wrigley Institute\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/mlml_csumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/mlml_csumb.jpg 2848w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/mlml_csumb-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/mlml_csumb-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/01\/mlml_csumb-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seafloor mapping-capable R\/V VenTresca with MLML &amp; CSUMB researchers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What does the seafloor look like? \u00a0To help answer this question multibeam and sidescan sonar is used on the R\/V VenTresca. \u00a0A rare habitat called rhodolith beds, calcareous algae beds which look like tiny tumble weeds, are present around Catalina. \u00a0Thanks to graduate student Paul Tompkins at Moss Landing Marine Labs the locations of the beds have been found by using SCUBA, Manta tows, and drop camera work.\u00a0 Using multibeam and sonar, the R\/V VenTresca may have the ability to find these beds without having to dive in the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does the seafloor look like? \u00a0To help answer this question multibeam and sidescan sonar is used on the R\/V VenTresca. \u00a0A rare habitat called rhodolith beds, calcareous algae beds which look like tiny tumble weeds, are present around Catalina. \u00a0Thanks to graduate student Paul Tompkins at Moss Landing Marine Labs the locations of the [&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":[],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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\/3038","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=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}