{"id":30271,"date":"2005-10-12T15:16:33","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T19:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=30271"},"modified":"2017-11-03T14:31:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T18:31:44","slug":"mississippi-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2005\/10\/12\/mississippi-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"UMaine geologist to discuss fate of Mississippi Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Joseph T. Kelley, a marine geologist and sedimentologist who focuses on shoreline issues, gives a talk titled <em>The Destruction and Proposed Reconstruction of the Mississippi River Delta <\/em>at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, in Room 204 of Carnegie Science Hall, 44 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture is open to the public at no cost.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Kelley&#8217;s talk is timely in view of the devastating effects of hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the Mississippi delta and the Gulf shoreline. A professor in the department of geological sciences and in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine, he edited the book <em>Living with the Louisiana Shore <\/em>(1984), part of the Duke University Press <em>Living with the Shore <\/em>series. The talk, sponsored by the Bates geology department, is open to the public at no cost.<\/p>\n<p>A Maine native, Kelley is known as an effective advocate of shoreline protection, described as &#8220;Maine&#8217;s coastal conscience&#8221; by the Maine Audubon Society. He was the lead author of another in the <em>Living with the Shore<\/em> series, 1989&#8217;s influential <em>Living with the Coast of Maine<\/em>. A 2002 profile in UMaine Today, the university magazine, described Kelley as &#8220;a guiding force behind the most environmentally protective coastal management regulations in the nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His current projects include the mapping of landslide hazards along the Maine coast, the study of how salt-marsh plants and animals respond to tidal changes caused by inlet dredging and the profiling of Maine&#8217;s sandy developed beaches, an effort that involves homeowner-volunteers in the research.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph T. Kelley, a marine geologist and sedimentologist who focuses on shoreline issues, gives a talk titled &#8220;The Destruction and Proposed Reconstruction of the Mississippi River Delta&#8221; at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, in Room 204 of Carnegie Science Hall, 44 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":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":""},"categories":[32,217,234],"tags":[10841,5657,7809],"class_list":["post-30271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maine-and-new-england","category-science-technology","category-teaching-education","tag-geology","tag-marine-geology","tag-sedimentology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93026,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30271\/revisions\/93026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}