{"id":1958,"date":"2016-10-28T21:15:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T21:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whaletimes.org\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2016-10-28T21:27:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T21:27:32","slug":"whaletimes-visits-broward-county-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/?p=1958","title":{"rendered":"WhaleTimes visits Broward County Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1959\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whaletimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Deep-See-in-the-Deep-Sea-DNA-Copyright-WhaleTimes.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1959\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1959\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1959\" src=\"http:\/\/whaletimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Deep-See-in-the-Deep-Sea-DNA-Copyright-WhaleTimes-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Tamara Frank talk deep-sea DNA\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Tamara Frank talks deep-sea DNA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Four days, 25 schools, 525 kids<\/strong>&#8230;and it was awesome!&#8221; said WhaleTimes Director, Ruth Musgrave.\u00a0Deep-sea expert Dr. Tamara Frank (Nova Southeastern University)\u00a0\u00a0and Musgrave spent the week in Broward County Florida\u00a0visiting 1st to 6th grade classrooms as part of a National Science Foundation\u00a0grant.\u00a0&#8220;We had a blast using music to teach about DNA sequencing,\u00a0secret light codes to introduce\u00a0communication of bioluminescent animals, and what it&#8217;s like to see through a deep-sea animal&#8217;s eyes.&#8221; adds Musgrave.<\/p>\n<p>The school visits,\u00a0entitled, &#8220;Deep\u00a0See in the Deep Sea&#8221;\u00a0share\u00a0the on-going research of Dr. Frank and Dr. Heather Bracken Grissom (Florida International University) who\u00a0are\u00a0studying the evolution of bioluminescence and light detection in deep-sea shrimp.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t wait to go back next year and meet more of the incredible kids from Broward County to\u00a0share our\u00a0latest discoveries.&#8221; said Tamara Frank<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Special thanks to STEM teacher Michele Parsons who helped us coordinate the program and find such amazing schools and motivated students.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Project funded through NSF Award No. 1556279<\/span><\/em><\/h6>\n<div id=\"attachment_1960\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whaletimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Deep-See-in-the-Deep-Sea-Copyright-WhaleTimes-ssm.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1960\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1960\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1960\" src=\"http:\/\/whaletimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Deep-See-in-the-Deep-Sea-Copyright-WhaleTimes-ssm-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Kids see through the eyes of a deep-sea animal\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kids see through the eyes of a deep-sea animal<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whaletimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Deep-See-in-the-Deep-sea-Copyright-T-Frank-WhaleTimes.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1961\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1961 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/whaletimes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Deep-See-in-the-Deep-sea-Copyright-T-Frank-WhaleTimes-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"deep-see-in-the-deep-sea-copyright-t-frank-whaletimes\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Four days, 25 schools, 525 kids&#8230;and it was awesome!&#8221; said WhaleTimes Director, Ruth Musgrave.\u00a0Deep-sea expert Dr. Tamara Frank (Nova Southeastern University)\u00a0\u00a0and Musgrave spent the week in Broward County Florida\u00a0visiting 1st to 6th grade classrooms as part of a National Science Foundation\u00a0grant.\u00a0&#8220;We had a blast using music to teach about DNA sequencing,\u00a0secret light codes to introduce\u00a0communication &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/?p=1958\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whaletimes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}