{"id":5838,"date":"2024-01-31T08:11:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T13:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/?p=5838"},"modified":"2024-01-31T08:11:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T13:11:43","slug":"new-oyster-project-funded-through-noaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/2024\/01\/new-oyster-project-funded-through-noaa\/","title":{"rendered":"New Oyster Project Funded through NOAA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>The NC State University Center for Marine Sciences and Technology (CMAST), is collaborating with the NC Coastal Federation and the NC Central University to build oyster sanctuaries while increasing diversity in the field of marine sciences.\u00a0 The $14.9 million grant project, titled, \u201cCompleting the Pamlico Sound Oyster Sanctuary and Training the Next Generation of Restoration Professionals,\u201d is funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).\u00a0 The project will assist NC State and NC Central universities in providing hands-on opportunities for underrepresented students in the marine sciences.\u00a0 Dr. David Eggleston, CMAST director and professor, says about $1.2 million of the overall grant funds will support four NC State graduate students in the program over a three-year period, plus an additional three undergraduate students every summer.\u00a0 To read the full article, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wunc.org\/environment\/2024-01-22\/north-carolina-oyster-population-restoration-diversity-marine-science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NC State University Center for Marine Sciences and Technology (CMAST), is collaborating with the NC Coastal Federation and the NC Central University to build oyster sanctuaries while increasing diversity in the field of marine sciences.\u00a0 The $14.9 million grant project, titled, \u201cCompleting the Pamlico Sound Oyster Sanctuary and Training the Next Generation of Restoration&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5839,"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":"{\"showAuthor\":true,\"showDate\":true,\"showFeaturedVideo\":false,\"caption\":\"<em>Rebecca Ruiz. \u00a0Photo courtesy of Sophie Mallinson, WUNC.<\/em>\"}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5838","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\/5838"}],"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=5838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5840,"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838\/revisions\/5840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmast.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}