{"id":2939,"date":"2017-03-02T18:43:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T18:43:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-17T13:34:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:34:24","slug":"phd-student-rohal-wins-tamucc-3-minute-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/phd-student-rohal-wins-tamucc-3-minute-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD student Rohal wins TAMUCC 3-Minute Thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Rohal, a PhD student under Paul Montagna at Texas A&#038;M-Corpus Christi\/Harte Research Institute, placed first among PhD candidates at the 3 Minute Thesis competition\u00a0in Corpus Christi. Contestants have three minutes to share the significance of their work and findings, something which would normally take about an 45 minutes to an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Rohal analyzes the ecosystem services of worms and other invertebrates (meio- and macrofauna) living in the Gulf&#8217;s sediments. These creatures provide the base of the food web across the Gulf, with some communities more heavily impacted than others after <em>Deepwater Horizon<\/em>. Melissa is working closely with our task 6 members to model and anticipate changes to\u00a0ecosystem services provided by these invertebrates.<\/p>\n<p>Melissa will compete at the regional competition in March 2017 at the\u00a0Conference of Southern Graduate Schools. Congratulations Melissa!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Rohal, a PhD student under Paul Montagna at Texas A&#038;M-Corpus Christi\/Harte Research Institute, placed first among PhD candidates at the 3 Minute Thesis competition\u00a0in Corpus Christi. Contestants have three minutes to share the significance of their work and findings,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-of-the-month","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5004,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions\/5004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/c-image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}