{"id":1830,"date":"2026-06-08T19:10:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2026-06-08T19:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:11:12","slug":"happy-world-ocean-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/?p=1830","title":{"rendered":"Happy World Ocean Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_bY4R7cuENk\" 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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Happy World Ocean Day<\/strong>! \ud83c\udf0a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When people think about the ocean, words that often come to mind include large, deep, powerful, salty, and inspirational. Here at <strong>Bigelow Laboratory<\/strong>, the word that\u2019s top of mind is hopeful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To celebrate this deep sense of promise, we asked several of our research interns and our resident assistant what the ocean means to them. Their responses reminded us that the future of marine science is bright and beautiful.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This World Ocean Day, all new and increased gifts to Bigelow Laboratory will be matched. Please stand with us \u2014 and the ocean we study \u2014 as we advance world-class science to improve the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-3e41869c wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-75\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-align-center wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/host.nxt.blackbaud.com\/adaptive-donor-form\/?formId=fbe05f78-c7b4-4613-b5af-53150b154db3&amp;envid=p-z1yI3rAOuUOAw4dFJu-lSQ&amp;zone=usa\">Double Your Impact Today<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy World Ocean Day! \ud83c\udf0a When people think about the ocean, words that often come to mind include large, deep, powerful, salty, and inspirational. Here at Bigelow Laboratory, the word that\u2019s top of mind is hopeful. To celebrate this deep sense of promise, we asked several of our research interns and our resident assistant what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1831,"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":[17,18,54],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-events","tag-maine","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","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=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/1833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currents.bigelow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}