{"id":5792,"date":"2023-12-07T15:55:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T20:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/?p=5792"},"modified":"2023-12-14T15:59:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T20:59:25","slug":"marine-mammal-health-course-hosted-at-cmast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/2023\/12\/marine-mammal-health-course-hosted-at-cmast\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Mammal Health Course Hosted at CMAST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>Twelve NC State veterinary students recently spent the week at the Center for Marine Sciences and Technology (CMAST) learning about marine mammal health and medicine in a course led by Dr. Craig Harms and Dr. Michael Stoskopf. In addition to lectures by an array of marine mammal biologists and veterinarians, students have had the opportunity to conduct postmortem examinations on a striped dolphin, harbor porpoise, grey seal, and the head of a pygmy sperm whale, all of which had interesting pathology and unique anatomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bonehenge.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CAHarms-osteomyelitis-Bonehenge-REV-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Dr. Harms discusses a dolphin vertebral osteomyelitis case using the outstanding skeletal specimen collection housed at Bonehenge Whale Center (https:\/\/bonehenge.org\/). (photo by Keith Rittmaster)\" class=\"wp-image-5796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CAHarms-osteomyelitis-Bonehenge-REV-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CAHarms-osteomyelitis-Bonehenge-REV-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CAHarms-osteomyelitis-Bonehenge-REV-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CAHarms-osteomyelitis-Bonehenge-REV-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/CAHarms-osteomyelitis-Bonehenge-REV-2048x1152.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. Harms discusses a dolphin vertebral osteomyelitis case using the outstanding skeletal specimen collection housed at <a href=\"https:\/\/bonehenge.org\/\">Bonehenge Whale Center<\/a>  (photo by Keith Rittmaster)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve NC State veterinary students recently spent the week at the Center for Marine Sciences and Technology (CMAST) learning about marine mammal health and medicine in a course led by Dr. Craig Harms and Dr. Michael Stoskopf. In addition to lectures by an array of marine mammal biologists and veterinarians, students have had the opportunity&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/default-post-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{\"caption\":\"Group photo prior to postmortem examination of striped dolphin (photo by Vicky Thayer).\",\"showAuthor\":true,\"showDate\":true,\"showFeaturedVideo\":false,\"subtitle\":\"\"}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5792"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5799,"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792\/revisions\/5799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}