{"id":583,"date":"2008-10-05T23:14:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T06:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=583"},"modified":"2008-10-05T23:14:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T06:14:18","slug":"birds-of-the-bering-sea-7-june-2008-rough-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2008\/10\/05\/birds-of-the-bering-sea-7-june-2008-rough-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds of the Bering Sea – Rough Times"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Nate<\/a>
Nate Jones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

by Nate Jones<\/a>, Vertebrate Ecology Lab<\/p>\n

June 7, 2008:<\/strong> A short entry, because I\u2019m seasick! <\/span>The weather has definitely taken a turn for the worse! <\/span>So much for the calm Bering Sea in summertime. <\/span>We have a gale going, with winds to just over 40 knots, and seas of 15-20 feet. <\/span>I went up on the bridge this morning to look and see the stormy weather. <\/span>I was excited to experience this, because it\u2019s definitely part of what makes this ocean what it is. <\/span>I could barely keep my feet as the boat lurched from side to side. <\/span>The spray from the waves was lashing across the windows, blown by the wind. <\/span>That\u2019s like 40 feet off the water! <\/span>OOooppf. <\/span>I couldn\u2019t stay very long. <\/span>I didn\u2019t even take a picture, unfortunately. <\/span>But, the US Coast Guard is nice enough to provide some stock footage on their website that I\u2019ll borrow here to demonstrate what I saw:<\/p>\n

\"J.<\/a>
Bering Sea storm (photo: J. Minchew, USCG)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/p>\n

Lucky for me, our scientific instructions (protocols) tell us not to survey in this weather because it\u2019s too difficult to see birds anyway. <\/span>I mean, c\u2019mon – How many birds can you see in this photo?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Nate Jones, Vertebrate Ecology Lab June 7, 2008: A short entry, because I\u2019m seasick! The weather has definitely taken a turn for the worse! So much for the calm Bering Sea in summertime. We have a gale going, with winds to just over 40 knots, and seas of 15-20 feet. I went up on […]<\/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":[310],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-vertebrate-ecology-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\/583","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=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}