{"id":626,"date":"2010-04-21T16:09:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T16:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=626"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:38:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:38:46","slug":"core-course","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2007\/summer07\/postcards-from-bates\/core-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Core Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-top: 5px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/Bates_Magazine\/2007-summer\/main\/course.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"middle\" \/><br \/>\nDuring Short Term, Chris Hertz \u201909 of East Burke, Vt., a student in \u201cIntroduction to Hydrogeology\u201d with Associate Professor of Geology Beverly Johnson, uses a Dutch corer to take a sediment core from the Sprague River marsh at Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area. The cores reveal the marsh\u2019s historical carbon cycle \u2014 the movement of carbon between living organisms and the non-living environment. Knowing the past, says Johnson, helps researchers understand how recent human activities, like global warming, deforestation, and overfishing, impact marine ecosystems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Short Term, Chris Hertz \u201909 of East Burke, Vt., a student&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":620,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-626","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11630,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/626\/revisions\/11630"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}