{"id":4482,"date":"2015-09-21T23:08:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T03:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=4482"},"modified":"2015-09-21T23:09:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T03:09:09","slug":"pbs-newshour-story-on-impacts-of-increased-salt-on-coastal-marshes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/09\/pbs-newshour-story-on-impacts-of-increased-salt-on-coastal-marshes\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS Newshour story on measuring impacts of increased salt on coastal marshes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-caption-dd\"><em>PBS Newshour<\/em>\u00a0put together a 4 minute video describing some current research by UGA professor Merryl Alber to study what happens to coastal marshes when you change them from fresh water to salt water.\u00a0 This is expected to happen as sea level continues to rise in the next century.\u00a0 You can see the video and read a story about the SaltEX project\u00a0at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/updates\/coastal-ecologists-construct-time-machine-sea-level-rise\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/updates\/coastal-ecologists-construct-time-machine-sea-level-rise\/<\/a>.\u00a0 The research has some unsettling conclusions about how the coastal marshes are likely to change over time as the water becomes more brackish and salty.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4483\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/Salt_marsh_Georgia_US1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4483\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/Salt_marsh_Georgia_US1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Trish Hartmann, Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/Salt_marsh_Georgia_US1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/Salt_marsh_Georgia_US1-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/Salt_marsh_Georgia_US1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Trish Hartmann, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PBS Newshour\u00a0put together a 4 minute video describing some current research by UGA professor Merryl Alber to study what happens to coastal marshes when you change them from fresh water to salt water.\u00a0 This is expected to happen as sea level continues to rise in the next century.\u00a0 You can see the video and read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-coastal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4486,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4482\/revisions\/4486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}