{"id":4353,"date":"2011-05-31T08:30:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2011-05-31T08:30:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:30:37","slug":"islands-and-algae-and-more-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2011\/05\/31\/islands-and-algae-and-more-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Islands and Algae and More oh my!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4354\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/img_94841.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4354\" title=\"Isla Sin Nombre\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/img_94841.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/img_94841.jpg 497w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/img_94841-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Being close to islands expanded the options for student projects.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The environment in Bahia Concepcion, Baja California Sur, Mexico is much different than that of Monterey Bay. \u00a0The swell cannot get to the islands because they are inside a large protected bay. \u00a0The islands have to deal with winds and winter storms though. \u00a0The bay has many islands that provide habitat for birds like gulls and osprey. \u00a0The islands also provide habitat in the water for algae like the large brown <em>Colpomenia<\/em> algae seen below. \u00a0They look like spiky brown footballs, but don&#8217;t worry they are as soft as pillows!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4355\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4355\" style=\"width: 426px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/img_9502_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4355\" title=\"Colpomenia tuberculata\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/img_9502_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/img_9502_2.jpg 426w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2011\/05\/img_9502_2-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brown algae covering the bottom around the islands.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The environment in Bahia Concepcion, Baja California Sur, Mexico is much different than that of Monterey Bay. \u00a0The swell cannot get to the islands because they are inside a large protected bay. \u00a0The islands have to deal with winds and winter storms though. \u00a0The bay has many islands that provide habitat for birds like gulls [&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-4353","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\/4353","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=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}