{"id":187390,"date":"2014-12-16T04:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=187390"},"modified":"2014-12-16T04:00:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T18:00:31","slug":"eight-nmc-students-get-interisland-ecology-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/eight-nmc-students-get-interisland-ecology-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight NMC students get into interisland ecology course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight students from the Northern Marianas College will participate in the Ecology of Bird Loss Project\u2019s \u201cIsland Ecology Course\u201d from Dec. 28 to Jan. 16. <\/p>\n<p>According to EBL, these students will conduct comparative research projects on Saipan, Rota, and Guam. They will later present their results in a symposium at the end of the course.<\/p>\n<p>According to EBL, instructors from several universities will teach on topics including natural history, invasive species, ecology, and conservation.<\/p>\n<p>Six students from the University of Guam are also reportedly in the course. <\/p>\n<p>Three instructors&#8211;Ross Miller from UOG, Evan Fricke from the University of Washington, and Dr. Haldre Rogers from Rice University&#8211;will teach the 14 students. <\/p>\n<p>Lee Roy Sablan, an NMC alumnus and current undergraduate at UOG, will be a teacher assistant during the course. Travel costs between islands and hotels costs will be covered by EBL.<\/p>\n<p>Students submitted a cover letter, resume, and transcript in getting into the course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight students from the Northern Marianas College will participate in the Ecology of Bird Loss&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,262,122,445],"class_list":["post-187390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-guam","tag-northern-marianas-college","tag-travel","tag-uog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}