{"id":3389,"date":"2012-01-20T13:12:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T19:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/?p=3389"},"modified":"2012-01-20T13:12:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T19:12:43","slug":"3389","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/2012\/01\/20\/3389\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholls promotes Grand Isle preservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students enrolled in Nicholls State University\u2019s Environmental Diagnostics and Biomarkers course traveled to Grand Isle School on Tuesday, Jan. 17, and Wednesday, Jan. 18, to teach second and third graders the importance of preserving one of the last surviving barrier islands in Louisiana. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2012\/01\/Dunes.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3390\" title=\"Dunes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/66\/2012\/01\/Dunes-540x405.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.org\/\">The Nature Conservancy<\/a>, the service-learning project will continue annually at the request of Jean Landry, Nature Conservancy director for Grand Isle. Pictured are Nicholls biology students Clayton Kern, Stacy Martinez, Kent Bolfrass, Michelle Felterman and others leading second grade students on a barrier island transect. For additional information about the project, call Dr. Gary Lafleur, associate professor of biological sciences, at 985-448-4700. To learn more about the Nicholls Department of Biological Sciences, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/biology\/\">www.nicholls.edu\/biology\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students enrolled in Nicholls State University\u2019s Environmental Diagnostics and Biomarkers course traveled to Grand Isle School on Tuesday, Jan. 17, and Wednesday, Jan. 18, to teach second and third graders the importance of preserving one of the last surviving barrier islands in Louisiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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