{"id":41402,"date":"2024-09-27T11:40:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=41402"},"modified":"2024-09-27T12:05:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T16:05:22","slug":"shoals-marine-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/shoals-marine-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"By the Deep Blue Sea, an Idyllic Spot for Teaching and Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For more than half a century, students and faculty\u2014from Cornell and elsewhere\u2014have flocked to Shoals Marine Lab<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Melissa Newcomb<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each summer, Douglas Fudge \u201991, MAT \u201992, steps off the boat at Maine\u2019s Appledore Island. He pauses, inhales the salt air, and absorbs the picturesque view: lush greenery surrounded by rocky coastline and tide pools teeming with marine life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

\u201cI love that first step onto the dock every year,\u201d says Fudge, a biology professor<\/a> at Chapman University in California. \u201cI stop to take it all in. It just feels like home to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appledore is home to Shoals Marine Laboratory<\/a>, a seasonal field station\u2014run jointly by Cornell and the University of New Hampshire\u2014that offers myriad learning and research opportunities for high school and college students, interns, academic faculty, and the broader scientific community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fudge first visited in 1991 to take a class as part of his studies in science education. He never thought he\u2019d return almost every year since.<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"A
Ron Sher<\/figcaption>
An avian visitor to Appledore.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat trip to Shoals changed my trajectory,\u201d says Fudge, who went on to earn a doctorate in zoology and biophysics at the University of British Columbia and become an expert in hagfish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt convinced me that being a marine biologist would be really fun, and also doable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

That trip to Shoals changed my trajectory. It convinced me that being a marine biologist would be really fun, and also doable.<\/p>\nDouglas Fudge \u201991, MAT \u201992<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

While Shoals\u2019s location\u2014roughly seven miles off the New England coast, at the Maine-New Hampshire border\u2014is remote, the 95-acre island bustles with life: birds, plants, insects, marine species, and (at least seasonally) dozens of humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The facilities on the island include academic buildings, dorms, a dining hall, and structures housing utilities for fresh and salt water and for power generation, primarily through sustainable infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A
Caitlin Cook \/ Cornell University<\/figcaption>
The island is located about 300 miles northeast of the Hill.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe really are our own island campus,\u201d says Sara Morris, PhD \u201996<\/a>, Shoals\u2019s executive director and a doctoral alum in zoology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re built around learning from and supporting one another. You come here and find a community unlike any other that I\u2019ve experienced.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the summer, Shoals typically hosts 80\u2013100 people at any given time. More than half are students taking two-week classes in topics like shark biology and conservation, sustainable fisheries, field ornithology, and investigative marine biology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

You come here and find a community unlike any other that I\u2019ve experienced.<\/p>\nExecutive director Sara Morris, PhD \u201996<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

(The island also hosts short courses that are open to the public and welcomes a limited number of day-trippers, who visit for organized tours<\/a> of the restored gardens originally created by prominent New England poet Celia Thaxter, a 19th-century resident of Appledore.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some 200 students come to Shoals each year\u2014roughly 70% of them receiving scholarships to attend. Each course, which packs a semester of work into an intensive two weeks, offers three academic credits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A
Ron Sher<\/figcaption>
A harbor seal pup.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\n

Additionally, a group of undergraduate researchers are in residence each summer to conduct an independent 10-week project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI knew I wanted to come to Shoals before I even applied to Cornell,\u201d says CALS student Ondine Morgan-Knapp \u201926. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat has been really striking to me is the level of genuine interest and involvement from everybody on the island.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ithaca native studying marine biology and data science on the Hill, Morgan-Knapp conducted research at Shoals in summer 2024 as part of her work to develop more sustainable bait for lobster fishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She spent the season field testing a formula she\u2019d developed the previous academic year for (as she calls it) a \u201cfish muffin\u201d: bait primarily made of ground carcasses that are byproducts of haddock processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Students
Sara Morris<\/figcaption>
Students arriving via the John M. Kingsbury<\/em>, named in honor of Shoals’s founder.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Though student researchers put in long days, she says, there are always opportunities to explore different areas of study or to assist on other projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSometimes the kitchen staff will take me out to get lobsters for my experiment, or they\u2019ll help the bird team with the chicks,\u201d Morgan-Knapp says, talking with Cornellians<\/em> via Zoom during her stay on the island. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe culture here is a really lovely thing to be a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\"Student
Jason Koski \/ Cornell University<\/figcaption>
Working together to unload food supplies from the boat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

That culture is highly collaborative and non-hierarchical, with students, faculty, staff, and researchers all dining and socializing together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the island\u2019s traditions\u2014as beloved as they are practical\u2014are the human chains that are formed to unload luggage and food supplies, passing each item from boat to dock and uphill to the campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverybody looks out for each other,\u201d says Grace Guo \u201925, an ecology and evolutionary biology major in Arts & Sciences who spent summer 2024 researching how roseate terns, an endangered species of seabird, are affected by the attachment of GPS transmitters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Researchers
Sara Morris<\/figcaption>
Studying a porbeagle shark.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Whenever researchers can’t make it to the dining hall due to their field work, Guo notes, \u201csomebody will save you a meal and make sure you\u2019re taken care of.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the island, each morning begins with breakfast at 7:30\u2014except for ornithologists, who start at 5:30. Evenings include after-dinner chats, board games, and cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are weekly lectures known as \u201crock talks<\/a>\u201d; the name is a throwback to the days before the academic buildings were built, when professors would teach while standing on Shoals\u2019s craggy shore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scenes from Shoals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>
<\/div><\/div>
\"Students<\/figure>
\"An<\/figure>
\"Students<\/figure>
\"A<\/figure>
\"Students<\/figure>
\"A<\/figure><\/div>
<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n

(Topics in summer 2024 included the hunting efficacy of sea lions and how coastlines change over time.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shoals traces its roots to 1928, when a UNH professor founded what was known as the Marine Zoological Laboratory on the island, which had housed private cottages and a large seaside hotel that had burned down the previous decade.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n
\"Researchers
Jason Koski \/ Cornell University<\/figcaption>
Field work, with some flying friends. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Scientific work there paused during World War II, when the federal government took control of Appledore for military purposes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The facilities fell into disrepair before being revived decades later, with existing buildings refurbished and new ones built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the lab owes its existence, in large part, to the efforts of one man: legendary Big Red botanist John Kingsbury<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Appledore
The island’s buildings stood vacant for decades before Shoals was established.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n

More than a half century ago, Kingsbury\u2014who wrote a seminal textbook on poisonous plants and taught on the Hill for three decades\u2014envisioned Shoals as the vibrant hub for research and education that it is today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to his dogged efforts at fundraising and navigating approvals by regulators and the University, Shoals started as a summer course on neighboring Star Island in 1966\u2014and two years later, the plan to build a lab on Appledore got the go-ahead from Cornell trustees. The program took up residence there in 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(In acknowledgement of Kingsbury’s foundational role, both the endowed directorship that Morris holds and the boat that carries passengers to the island are named in his honor.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A
A picture-perfect day on Appledore. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAppledore Island is a magic place,\u201d Kingsbury wrote in Here\u2019s How We\u2019ll Do It<\/em>, an informal history of the lab published in 1991. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven the casual day visitor senses it. Appledore Island displays the natural world as it is, sometimes raw, sometimes exquisite, always absorbing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top: Student researchers at work. (Photo by Jason Koski \/ Cornell University.) All photos provided, unless indicated. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published September 27, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For half a century, students and faculty\u2014from Cornell and elsewhere\u2014have flocked to Shoals Marine Lab off the Maine coast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":41384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"alumni_hub_syml_posts":[30369,23626,15310],"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[],"cornell_year_post":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-41402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-beyond"],"yoast_head":"\nBy the Deep Blue Sea, an Idyllic Spot for Teaching and Research - Cornellians | Cornell University<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For half a century, students and faculty\u2014from Cornell and elsewhere\u2014have flocked to Shoals Marine Lab off the Maine coast\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/shoals-marine-lab\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"By the Deep Blue Sea, an Idyllic Spot for Teaching and Research - Cornellians | Cornell University\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For half a century, students and faculty\u2014from Cornell and elsewhere\u2014have flocked to Shoals Marine Lab off the Maine coast\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/shoals-marine-lab\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Cornellians | Cornell University\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Cornellians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-09-27T15:40:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-27T16:05:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/0687_07_264-A.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Beth Saulnier\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@WeCornellians\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@WeCornellians\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Beth Saulnier\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"9 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/shoals-marine-lab\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/shoals-marine-lab\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Beth Saulnier\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/32fea64e8c64bb984ed5809675634100\"},\"headline\":\"By the Deep Blue Sea, an Idyllic Spot for Teaching and Research\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-09-27T15:40:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-09-27T16:05:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/shoals-marine-lab\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":1217,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/shoals-marine-lab\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2024\\\/09\\\/0687_07_264-A.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Campus & Beyond\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/shoals-marine-lab\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/shoals-marine-lab\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/shoals-marine-lab\\\/\",\"name\":\"By the Deep Blue Sea, an Idyllic Spot for Teaching and Research - Cornellians | Cornell University\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/shoals-marine-lab\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/shoals-marine-lab\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2024\\\/09\\\/0687_07_264-A.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-09-27T15:40:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-09-27T16:05:22+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/32fea64e8c64bb984ed5809675634100\"},\"description\":\"For half a century, students and faculty\u2014from Cornell and elsewhere\u2014have flocked to Shoals Marine Lab off the Maine coast\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/shoals-marine-lab\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/shoals-marine-lab\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/shoals-marine-lab\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2024\\\/09\\\/0687_07_264-A.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2024\\\/09\\\/0687_07_264-A.jpg\",\"width\":1600,\"height\":900,\"caption\":\"Three female students doing research on tidal grasses on Appledore Island\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/shoals-marine-lab\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"By the Deep Blue Sea, an Idyllic Spot for Teaching and Research\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/\",\"name\":\"Cornellians | Cornell University\",\"description\":\"Cornell's alumni publication\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/32fea64e8c64bb984ed5809675634100\",\"name\":\"Beth Saulnier\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/321760a8edb5153d2c562bbadd61cc5ebb987bda75fb59074266c35cc35beae1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/321760a8edb5153d2c562bbadd61cc5ebb987bda75fb59074266c35cc35beae1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/321760a8edb5153d2c562bbadd61cc5ebb987bda75fb59074266c35cc35beae1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Beth Saulnier\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/alumni.cornell.edu\\\/cornellians\\\/author\\\/ess8\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"By the Deep Blue Sea, an Idyllic Spot for Teaching and Research - Cornellians | Cornell University","description":"For half a century, students and faculty\u2014from Cornell and elsewhere\u2014have flocked to Shoals Marine Lab off the Maine coast","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/shoals-marine-lab\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"By the Deep Blue Sea, an Idyllic Spot for Teaching and Research - Cornellians | Cornell University","og_description":"For half a century, students and faculty\u2014from Cornell and elsewhere\u2014have flocked to Shoals Marine Lab off the Maine coast","og_url":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/shoals-marine-lab\/","og_site_name":"Cornellians | Cornell University","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Cornellians","article_published_time":"2024-09-27T15:40:37+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-09-27T16:05:22+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1600,"height":900,"url":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/0687_07_264-A.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Beth Saulnier","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@WeCornellians","twitter_site":"@WeCornellians","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Beth Saulnier","Est. reading time":"9 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/shoals-marine-lab\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/shoals-marine-lab\/"},"author":{"name":"Beth Saulnier","@id":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/#\/schema\/person\/32fea64e8c64bb984ed5809675634100"},"headline":"By the Deep Blue Sea, an Idyllic Spot for Teaching and Research","datePublished":"2024-09-27T15:40:37+00:00","dateModified":"2024-09-27T16:05:22+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/shoals-marine-lab\/"},"wordCount":1217,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/shoals-marine-lab\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/0687_07_264-A.jpg","articleSection":["Campus & Beyond"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/shoals-marine-lab\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/shoals-marine-lab\/","url":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/shoals-marine-lab\/","name":"By the Deep Blue Sea, an Idyllic Spot for Teaching and Research - Cornellians | Cornell University","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/shoals-marine-lab\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/shoals-marine-lab\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/0687_07_264-A.jpg","datePublished":"2024-09-27T15:40:37+00:00","dateModified":"2024-09-27T16:05:22+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/#\/schema\/person\/32fea64e8c64bb984ed5809675634100"},"description":"For half a century, students and faculty\u2014from Cornell and elsewhere\u2014have flocked to Shoals Marine Lab off the Maine coast","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/shoals-marine-lab\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/shoals-marine-lab\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/shoals-marine-lab\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/0687_07_264-A.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/0687_07_264-A.jpg","width":1600,"height":900,"caption":"Three female students doing research on tidal grasses on Appledore Island"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/shoals-marine-lab\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"By the Deep Blue Sea, an Idyllic Spot for Teaching and Research"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/#website","url":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/","name":"Cornellians | Cornell University","description":"Cornell's alumni publication","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/#\/schema\/person\/32fea64e8c64bb984ed5809675634100","name":"Beth Saulnier","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/321760a8edb5153d2c562bbadd61cc5ebb987bda75fb59074266c35cc35beae1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/321760a8edb5153d2c562bbadd61cc5ebb987bda75fb59074266c35cc35beae1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/321760a8edb5153d2c562bbadd61cc5ebb987bda75fb59074266c35cc35beae1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Beth Saulnier"},"url":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/author\/ess8\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET","POST","PUT","PATCH","DELETE"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41683,"href":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41402\/revisions\/41683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41402"},{"taxonomy":"cornell_year_post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cornell_year_post?post=41402"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=41402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}