{"id":1511,"date":"2026-03-23T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2026-03-31T19:11:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T19:11:29","slug":"micromonday-tales-from-the-dock-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/?p=1511","title":{"rendered":"#MicroMonday: Tales from the Dock-side"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/za5bstNdLlM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This #MicroMonday, grab a flashlight and check out several tiny aquatic life forms collected during a nighttime sampling off <strong>Bigelow Laboratory<\/strong>\u2019s dock. Spencer Dreibelbis, a 2025 <strong>Sea Change Semester <\/strong>student, took the sample and captured these cool creatures on video last autumn: nicely done!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re a college student interested in ocean science, there\u2019s no better time to apply for our <strong>Sea Change Semester<\/strong>. This transformative 14-week experience empowers participants to answer critical questions about the future of the ocean. Rolling admission for the fall 2026 semester is capped; apply today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-50\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-align-center wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bigelow.org\/education\/seachange\/\">Learn More about Sea Change Semester<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8: Spencer Dreibelbis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This #MicroMonday, grab a flashlight and check out several tiny aquatic life forms collected during a nighttime sampling off Bigelow Laboratory\u2019s dock. Spencer Dreibelbis, a 2025 Sea Change Semester student, took the sample and captured these cool creatures on video last autumn: nicely done! If you\u2019re a college student interested in ocean science, there\u2019s no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","css_class_manager_body_classes":"","css_class_manager_use_in_post_loop":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[18,34,54,60],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-maine","tag-microscopy","tag-students","tag-zooplankton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions\/1513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}