{"id":6717,"date":"2013-02-21T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=6717"},"modified":"2020-10-21T17:25:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T00:25:54","slug":"beachcombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2013\/02\/21\/beachcombing\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronicles of a Curious Beachcomber"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-6717\"  class=\"panel-layout\"><div id=\"pg-6717-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\"><div id=\"pgc-6717-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\"><div id=\"panel-6717-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\"><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\">\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h3>by Angela Szesciorka, Vertebrate Ecology Lab<\/h3>\n<p>A few Sundays ago \u2014 Super Bowl Sunday, in fact \u2014 I took a three-hour walk along the beach at Fort Ord in Monterey, CA with Don Glasco, a systems engineer and former cartographer.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn\u2019t a leisurely pursuit, but my volunteer service to the Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network\u2019s (SIMoN) Coastal Ocean Mammal and Bird Education and Research Surveys, also known as Beach COMBERS.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>I meet Don at\u00a0Fort Ord Dunes State Park in Marina around 9 a.m. After downing the last of my coffee, we head out into the foggy morning.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6840\" style=\"width: 389px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2013\/02\/don-e1360739054943.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6840\" src=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2013\/02\/don-e1360739054943.png?w=339\" alt=\"Don Glasco referring to the almighty bird book to identify an unknown species by its toes. Photo by Angela Szesciorka.\" width=\"389\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2013\/02\/don-e1360739054943.png 450w, https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2013\/02\/don-e1360739054943-227x300.png 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Glasco referring to the almighty bird book to identify an unknown species by its toes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><p> <a href=\"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2013\/02\/21\/beachcombing\/#more-6717\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Angela Szesciorka, Vertebrate Ecology Lab A few Sundays ago \u2014 Super Bowl Sunday, in fact \u2014 I took a three-hour walk along the beach at Fort Ord in Monterey, CA with Don Glasco, a systems engineer and former cartographer. This wasn\u2019t a leisurely pursuit, but my volunteer service to the Sanctuary Integrated Monitoring Network\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[170,258,310],"class_list":["post-6717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drop-inblog","tag-marine-mammals","tag-seabirds","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\/6717","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=6717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20845,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6717\/revisions\/20845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}