{"id":3337,"date":"2016-06-28T10:44:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T10:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2016-07-02T06:02:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T06:02:55","slug":"dinner-with-vik-and-erika-iyengar-slugs-earwigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/dinner-with-vik-and-erika-iyengar-slugs-earwigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner with Professors Vik and Erika Iyengar: Slugs! Earwigs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Caroline Grauman-Boss\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, June 28th, Dr. Vik Iyengar of Villanova University and Dr. Erika Iyengar of Muhlenberg College joined us for dinner and an after-dinner presentation of their research. The next day, the Salish Sea Sciences team rose early to be in the field with Erika at 5:00am to\u00a0participate in slug surveys with her. Students identified\u00a0different slug populations and learned about their\u00a0habitats, habits, and the effects of invasive species. Students will have the chance to study maritime earwigs with Vik at False Bay on Friday, July 1st.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3377\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P1020738.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3377\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3377 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P1020738-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"P1020738\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P1020738-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P1020738-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/P1020738.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Vik Iyengar at False Bay with Salish Sea Sciences: Photo by Tom Grauman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To get a sense of the kind of research the Iyengars\u00a0do and why they do it, please take a look at the following links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the homepage of <a href=\"http:\/\/viyengar.clasit.org\">Dr. Vik Iyengar<\/a> at Villanova U. and his page about his research on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/viyengar.clasit.org\/?page_id=217\">maritime anthropods<\/a>, specifically earwig\u00a0mating systems.<\/li>\n<li>the homepage of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muhlenberg.edu\/main\/academics\/biology\/facultystaff\/erikaiyengar\/driyengarspage\/#research\">Dr. Erika Iyengar<\/a> at Muhlenberg College.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both professors have a deep history pursuing research at the <a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/fhl\/\">UW Friday Harbor Laboratories<\/a>. We are fortunate to have them here this summer and that they are making the time to share\u00a0their knowledge with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Caroline Grauman-Boss\u2014 Tuesday, June 28th, Dr. Vik Iyengar of Villanova University and Dr. Erika Iyengar of Muhlenberg College joined us for dinner and an after-dinner presentation of their research. The next day, the Salish Sea Sciences team rose early to be in the field with Erika at 5:00am to\u00a0participate in slug surveys with her. Students identified\u00a0different slug populations and learned about their\u00a0habitats, habits, and the effects of invasive species. Students will have the chance to study maritime earwigs with Vik at False Bay on Friday, July 1st. To get a sense of the kind of research the Iyengars\u00a0do and why they do it, please take a look at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/dinner-with-vik-and-erika-iyengar-slugs-earwigs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3379,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salishseasciences.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}