{"id":1198,"date":"2009-11-25T17:49:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T21:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:51","slug":"bahamian-bonefish-a-phd-in-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2009\/bahamian-bonefish-a-phd-in-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahamian Bonefish: A PhD in Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Bahamian Bonefish: A PhD in Paradise\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><span>Speaker: Karen Murchie (Carleton University)<br>\nNovember 25, 2009<\/span><span><br>\n<strong>Wild Oat Caf\u00e9<\/strong><br>\n817 Bank Street, Ottawa<br>\n6:30 &#8211; 7:30 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karen Murchie is a PhD student at Carleton University who is using bonefish as a model to understand how fish make a living in tropical tidal flats environments. Bonefish are a popular sport fish throughout their circumtropical distribution and thus can be economically important in small island nations such as The Bahamas. It is also believed that bonefish are ecologically important, moving nutrients from nearshore coastal areas, to offshore reefs. Come learn about bonefish, the environments they live in, why anglers love to catch them, and what it is like to do research in paradise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Karen Murchie (Carleton University) November 25, 2009 Wild Oat Caf\u00e9 817 Bank Street, Ottawa 6:30 &#8211; 7:30 p.m. Karen Murchie is a PhD student at Carleton University who is using bonefish as a model to understand how fish make a living in tropical tidal flats environments. Bonefish are a popular sport fish throughout their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}