{"id":1349,"date":"2016-03-22T15:11:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T19:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2016-03-22T15:11:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T19:11:49","slug":"dr-amber-pitt-joins-envs-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/2016\/03\/22\/dr-amber-pitt-joins-envs-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Amber Pitt joins ENVS Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1350\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/AmberPitt.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1350\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1350\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1350\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/AmberPitt.jpg\" alt=\"Amber Pitt\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/AmberPitt.jpg 700w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/AmberPitt-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/AmberPitt-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/AmberPitt-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber Pitt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One thing that kept us all busy during the first weeks of the semester was the search for a new conservation biologist. After reading many, many applications, coming up with short-lists, checking them once, checking them twice, meeting lots of candidates via Skype and in person, we made our decision and offered the position to Amber who gladly accepted.<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/AmberHellbender.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1351\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1351\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/AmberHellbender.jpg\" alt=\"Just in case you wondered what a &quot;hellbender&quot; looks like.\" width=\"524\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/AmberHellbender.jpg 524w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/files\/2016\/03\/AmberHellbender-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just in case you wondered what a &#8220;hellbender&#8221; looks like.<\/p>\n<p>Amber is currently an assistant professor of biology at Bloomsburg State University in Pennsylvania, where she studies amphibians, especially hellbender salamanders. This Fall she will teach a non majors course on conservation biology and co-teach our methods with Joan Morrison.<\/p>\n<p>As many of you may know, Joan Morrison is on phased retirement and will only teach a few more courses for us. So, if you ever wanted to take conservation biology with Joan: Don&#8217;t delay, sign up today (OK, once course registration opens).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that kept us all busy during the first weeks of the semester was the search for a new conservation biologist. After reading many, many applications, coming up with short-lists, checking them once, checking them twice, meeting lots of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/2016\/03\/22\/dr-amber-pitt-joins-envs-program\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":573,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}