{"id":680,"date":"2016-05-20T14:52:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T18:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/?p=680"},"modified":"2016-06-01T14:34:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T18:34:09","slug":"have-you-seen-our-drifters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/have-you-seen-our-drifters\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you seen our drifters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The LASER, GPS-equipped, <em>biodegradable<\/em> drifters have been washing up on the beaches of the Gulf coast over the last several weeks. \u00a0We have been contacted by wildlife officials, park rangers, and citizens who have found the &#8220;floats&#8221; or top pieces of our drifters on barrier islands and coastal beaches in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. \u00a0The &#8220;drogues&#8221; or the underwater sails on the bottom have fallen off and are not landing with the floats.<\/p>\n<p>By inspecting\u00a0the floats 4+ months after they were released, we can learn about the rate of degradation, the amount of biofouling that accumulates if any, and reuse parts if possible. \u00a0As scientists, we are always working to create better equipment, perfect our\u00a0research methodologies, and ask more questions.<\/p>\n<p>Have you seen any of these? \u00a0Send us a photo by emailing lbracken at rsmas dot miami dot edu.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_585\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-585\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-585\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/WP_20160120_001-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"WP_20160120_001\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/WP_20160120_001-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/WP_20160120_001-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/WP_20160120_001-1024x577.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BEFORE. \u00a0Photo by Nathan Laxague\/CARTHE<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_681\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-681\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-681\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Unknown-Sensor-PBI-5-4-16-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Unknown Sensor PBI 5-4-16\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Unknown-Sensor-PBI-5-4-16-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Unknown-Sensor-PBI-5-4-16-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Unknown-Sensor-PBI-5-4-16-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AFTER. \u00a0Photo by Gary Hopkins<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LASER, GPS-equipped, biodegradable drifters have been washing up on the beaches of the Gulf coast over the last several weeks. \u00a0We have been contacted by wildlife officials, park rangers, <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/have-you-seen-our-drifters\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,32],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}