{"id":4260,"date":"2011-05-15T16:35:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T00:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=4260"},"modified":"2021-01-14T15:52:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T23:52:12","slug":"a-rhodolith-thesis-defense-thursday-may-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/05\/15\/a-rhodolith-thesis-defense-thursday-may-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rhodolith Thesis Defense: Thursday May 19th"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul diligently sorting his samples in the lab. What was the point? Come hear his thesis to find out! (photo: E. Loury)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Congratulations to Phycology Lab student Paul Tompkins, who will be defending his thesis this Tursday, May 19th, at noon.\u00a0 Paul’s thesis is entitled “Distribution, Growth, and Disturbance of Catalina Island Rhodoliths.”\u00a0 What’s a rhodolith, you ask?\u00a0 If you can’t come hear the scoop on Thursday, check out these photos belows, or browse<\/a> around the<\/a> Drop-In<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Rhodoliths are round, free-living corraline algae – kind of like ocean tumbleweeds (photo: P. Tompkins)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unlike most seaweeds, rhodoliths are algae that have a hard skeleton made out of calcium carbonate.\u00a0 The structure of a rhodolith bed creates a habitat for many types of organisms, like a mini coral reef or kelp forest.\u00a0 Beds like the one shown below were the subject of Paul’s thesis.<\/p>\n

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A rhodolith bed at Catalina Island. (photo: P. Tompkins)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congratulations to Phycology Lab student Paul Tompkins, who will be defending his thesis this Tursday, May 19th, at noon.\u00a0 Paul’s thesis is entitled “Distribution, Growth, and Disturbance of Catalina Island Rhodoliths.”\u00a0 What’s a rhodolith, you ask?\u00a0 If you can’t come hear the scoop on Thursday, check out these photos belows, or browse around the Drop-In: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":2570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-4260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drop-inblog","tag-phycology-lab"],"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\/4260","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=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21068,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions\/21068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}