{"id":74988,"date":"2017-04-27T13:08:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T20:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=74988"},"modified":"2017-04-27T13:08:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T20:08:24","slug":"greetings-from-arcata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=74988","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from Arcata!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My last few weeks have been filled with dunes, dunes, dunes, and more dunes!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got one more transect left, and I&#8217;ll admit that I&#8217;ll miss doing these surveys.\u00a0 After a bit of a rocky start learning all of the new species, I&#8217;ve become quite familiar with the regulars!\u00a0 Many of the plants are now blooming as well, and put on quite a show on a sunny day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_75013\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75013\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-75013 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MOPE-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MOPE-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MOPE-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MOPE-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MOPE.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-75013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My favorite dune plant &#8211; <em>Claytonia perfoliata<\/em> ssp. <em>perfoliata<\/em> &#8211; also known as miner&#8217;s lettuce! These guys were hiding under a big bushy lupine!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_75011\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75011\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-75011 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mattolebeach-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mattolebeach-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mattolebeach-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mattolebeach.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-75011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dune survey at Mattole Beach! One of the most beautiful places I have ever been!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_75014\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75014\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-75014 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PLCA-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PLCA-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PLCA-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PLCA-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/PLCA.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-75014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pretty patch of <em>Platystemon californicus<\/em> (cream cups) with a few <em>Plectritis congesta<\/em> (sea blush) mixed in!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When it has\u00a0just been too rainy to go out into the field, I&#8217;ve been working on my ArcGIS skills, attending meetings, getting ready for SOS collections, and planning out the rest of my internship! Last week I attended the North Coast Botanical Meeting, where biologists from all sorts of government agencies and private industries got together to discuss what they think are the most pressing issues in\u00a0the Northern CA botany world.\u00a0 It was really interesting to see what everybody was working on, and a great opportunity to meet a lot of folks I&#8217;ll probably be working with in the next few months!<\/p>\n<p>Madie<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last few weeks have been filled with dunes, dunes, dunes, and more dunes!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got one more transect left, and I&#8217;ll admit that I&#8217;ll miss doing these surveys.\u00a0 After a bit of a rocky start learning all of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=74988\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75016,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74988\/revisions\/75016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}