{"id":258577,"date":"2017-08-22T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=258577"},"modified":"2017-08-22T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T20:00:13","slug":"shelton-appointed-lead-uog-center-island-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/shelton-appointed-lead-uog-center-island-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelton appointed to lead UOG Center for Island Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_258579\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-258579\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Shelton_Austin-mug-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-258579\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-258579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shelton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of Guam has appointed Dr. Austin Shelton as executive director of the Center for Island Sustainability. <\/p>\n<p>Shelton is a graduate of Hawaii Pacific University where he earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in Marine Biology. He also has a master\u2019s and a doctorate in zoology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, specializing in marine biology.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton currently serves as an assistant professor of extension and outreach in the UOG Sea Grant Program. He also is a co-principal investigator in the Guam EPSCoR Program funded by the National Science Foundation.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI am honored to be in a leadership position to make a difference,\u201d Shelton said. <\/p>\n<p>Shelton grew up near the beach in Asan, Guam where he developed a life-long interest in island environments. He is committed to broadening the participation and success of fellow Pacific Islanders in science, technology, engineering &amp; mathematics. He served on the national board of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos\/ Hispanics and Native Americans in Science and recently completed the 2017 Linton-Poodry SACNAS Leadership Institute at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. <strong>(UOG)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Guam has appointed Dr. Austin Shelton as executive director of the Center&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":258579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[18014,51,18015,18016],"class_list":["post-258577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","tag-austin-shelton","tag-guam","tag-marine-biology","tag-national-science-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258577","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}