{"id":276,"date":"2017-05-29T13:55:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T17:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=276"},"modified":"2017-05-29T13:55:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T17:55:30","slug":"veteran-scientist-plans-scrub-talks-saturday-at-archbold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Scientist Plans Scrub Talks Saturday at Archbold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scrub ecosystems of the Lake Wales Ridge and other prehistoric desert island chains in Central Florida are truly unique and still offer the potential for new discoveries.\n<\/p>\n<p>Saturday Dr. Jim Carrell, who has been visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archbold-station.org\/https:\/www.archbold-station.org\/https:\/www.archbold-station.org\/https:\/www.archbold-station.org\/\">Archbold Biological Station <\/a> to conduct research for the past half century, will present his reflections on the area in general and some of his specific work studying spiders and insects at 3 p.m. in the East Meeting  Room at Archbold . The lecture is free and open to the public.\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Arial\">Dr. Carrel began his research at Archbold  in 1967. He has made more than 70 visits to Archbold. He, studied more than  26  animal species in a variety of research projects and published 30 scientific papers based on that work.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black; font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\">Dr. Carrel will give his talk in two parts. The first part will focus on his many interactions with station founder Richard Archbold, and Thomas Eisner, a former research associate at Archbold from Cornell University. The second part will focus on some of his research focused on spiders and insects.. <\/span><span style=\"color:#202020; font-family:Helvetica\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black; font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\">Archbold Biological Station is an independent, not-for-profit research facility and lies within the Northern Everglades, the lands that drain south into Lake Okeechobee. Archbold&#8217;s mission is to build and share the scientific knowledge needed to protect the life, lands, and waters of the heart of Florida and beyond.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color:#202020; font-family:Helvetica\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archbold-station.org\/\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:12pt\">Archbold Biological Station<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Arial; font-size:12pt\"> is 8 miles south of Lake Placid. The entrance is 1.8 miles south of SR 70 on Old SR 8.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scrub ecosystems of the Lake Wales Ridge and other prehistoric desert island chains in Central Florida are truly unique and still offer the potential for new discoveries. Saturday Dr. Jim Carrell, who has been visiting Archbold Biological Station to conduct research for the past half century, will present his reflections on the area in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}