{"id":1613,"date":"2024-04-12T05:50:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T12:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2024-04-11T13:34:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T20:34:06","slug":"the-lost-forest-beneath-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/the-lost-forest-beneath-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/lostforestfc.jpg?resize=525%2C441&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"441\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21307\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Lost Forest: An Unexpected Discovery beneath the Waves<\/em><br \/>\nby Jennifer Swanson (Author)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4d73quP\">Amazon<\/a>* | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9781728493015\">Bookshop<\/a>*<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> After local fishers noticed a large swarm of fish in an unlikely area in the Gulf of Mexico, a team of divers found the remains of a forest deep beneath the waves. The ancient trees had been undisturbed for more than fifty thousand years before finally being uncovered by Hurricane Ivan in 2004. Follow a group of scientists as they work to explore and map the site, collect samples of cypress wood, and learn about the marine creatures that live here&#8211;namely, shipworms. <em>Page Plus links lead to videos of the scientists at work.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/lostforestint.jpg?resize=525%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21308\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stemfriday.tiny_.jpg?resize=216%2C104\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/\">STEM Friday!<\/a> (<strong>STEM<\/strong> is <strong>S<\/strong>cience, <strong>T<\/strong>echnology, <strong>E<\/strong>ngineering, and <strong>M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The author, Jennifer Swanson, is one of my former <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/former-students\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">students<\/a>.<\/em><br \/>\nCopyright \u00a9 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved. <em>(*bookstore affiliate<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lost Forest: An Unexpected Discovery beneath the Waves by Jennifer Swanson (Author) @ Amazon* | Bookshop* Booktalk: After local fishers noticed a large swarm of fish in an unlikely area in the Gulf of Mexico, a team of divers found the remains of a forest deep beneath the waves. The ancient trees had been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/the-lost-forest-beneath-waves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Lost Forest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-friday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamhGQ-q1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1074,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/beneath-the-waves-celebrating-the-ocean-through-pictures-poems-and-stories\/","url_meta":{"origin":1613,"position":0},"title":"Beneath the Waves: Celebrating the Ocean Through Pictures, Poems, and Stories","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"July 9, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Beneath the Waves: Celebrating the Ocean Through Pictures, Poems, and Stories by Stephanie Warren Drimmer (Author) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: Starting with the seashore and journeying through the ocean's zones, readers will discover mangrove forests, coral reefs, and the deepest ocean depths. 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