{"id":1150,"date":"2016-12-19T20:15:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T02:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2017-03-26T20:31:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T01:31:18","slug":"citizen-scientists-lose-sleep-over-black-footed-ferrets-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1150","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Scientists Lose Sleep Over Black-Footed Ferrets Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1153\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1153\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/398505\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1153 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Jennifer-and-ferret-caged-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Jennifer-and-ferret-caged-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Jennifer-and-ferret-caged-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Jennifer-and-ferret-caged.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildlife specialist Jennifer Cordova holds a human trap containing the black-footed ferret captured by my group. Photo by Nicholas Gerbis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For 11 years, volunteer citizen scientists have gathered near Seligman, Arizona, to help spot, capture and release endangered black-footed ferrets. The outing is part of a program to monitor captive-bred ferrets that wildlife specialists began reintroducing to Aubrey Valley 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I joined them.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/398505\" target=\"_blank\">Citizen Scientists Make Arizona Game And Fish Black-Footed Ferrets Project Possible<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 11 years, volunteer citizen scientists have gathered near Seligman, Arizona, to help spot, capture and release endangered black-footed ferrets. The outing is part of a program to monitor captive-bred ferrets that wildlife specialists began reintroducing to Aubrey Valley 20 years ago. This year, I joined them. Read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1150\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Citizen Scientists Lose Sleep Over Black-Footed Ferrets Project<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,3],"tags":[1230,1232,24,1229,1217,25,1233,1231,310],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-science","tag-arizona-game-and-fish-department","tag-badgers","tag-behavior","tag-citizen-science","tag-endangered-species","tag-nature","tag-nightjars","tag-prairie-dogs","tag-tapetum-lucidum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1156,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}