{"id":7614,"date":"2015-07-20T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=7614"},"modified":"2017-02-07T15:16:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T20:16:17","slug":"new-site-provides-resources-on-vernal-pools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2015\/07\/20\/new-site-provides-resources-on-vernal-pools\/","title":{"rendered":"New Site Provides Resources on Vernal Pools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2015\/07\/Vernal_Pool_off_College_Ave_5-12-74025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7615 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2015\/07\/Vernal_Pool_off_College_Ave_5-12-74025-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Tadpoles\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2015\/07\/Vernal_Pool_off_College_Ave_5-12-74025-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2015\/07\/Vernal_Pool_off_College_Ave_5-12-74025-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2015\/07\/Vernal_Pool_off_College_Ave_5-12-74025-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2015\/07\/Vernal_Pool_off_College_Ave_5-12-74025-105x70.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2015\/07\/Vernal_Pool_off_College_Ave_5-12-74025-317x211.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2015\/07\/Vernal_Pool_off_College_Ave_5-12-74025-423x281.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2015\/07\/Vernal_Pool_off_College_Ave_5-12-74025-634x422.jpg 634w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2015\/07\/Vernal_Pool_off_College_Ave_5-12-74025-846x563.jpg 846w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2015\/07\/Vernal_Pool_off_College_Ave_5-12-74025-951x633.jpg 951w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2015\/07\/Vernal_Pool_off_College_Ave_5-12-74025-1268x844.jpg 1268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,300px\" \/><\/a>A multi-institutional research team is working to understand the vital connections between landowner concerns, municipal planning, conservation activities, and the ecology of vernal pools. The team, led by Mitchell Center fellow Aram Calhoun, has created a new website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vernalpools.me\/\" target=\"_blank\">vernalpools.me<\/a>) designed to provide information on vernal pools. The site contains a variety of resources on vernal pool ecology, the animals that breed in and use vernal pools, an explanation of state and federal regulations pertaining to vernal pools, and materials developed to assist stakeholders with field assessments and local mapping projects.<\/p>\n<p>The research is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation\u2019s Coupled Natural and Human Systems Program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/protecting-natural-resources-at-the-community-scale-using-vernal-pools-to-study-urbanization-climate-change-and-forest-management\/\">See more on this project and other vernal pool research&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A multi-institutional research team is working to understand the vital connections between landowner concerns, municipal planning, conservation activities, and the ecology of vernal pools. The team, led by Mitchell Center fellow Aram Calhoun, has created a new website (vernalpools.me) designed to provide information on vernal pools. The site contains a variety of resources on vernal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":606,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":606,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11646,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614\/revisions\/11646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}