{"id":114292,"date":"2025-09-24T16:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=114292"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:44:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:44:58","slug":"lunchtime-discovery-a-dive-into-our-local-artificial-reefs","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/lunchtime-discovery-a-dive-into-our-local-artificial-reefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunchtime Discovery: A Dive into Our Local Artificial Reefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-114299\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Image-11.jpg\" alt=\"Man with a beard wearing a wetsuit and diving gear sitting on the edge of a boat\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Image-11.jpg 768w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Image-11-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Image-11-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Join us in-person in the SECU Daily Planet Theater or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/4q1TKtZ0zyI?si=jWVJCXAR2LnnJy_B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch the livestream on YouTube Live<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join Artificial Reef Biologist Nick Hendrix on a \u201cdive\u201d into the North Carolina Artificial Reef Program. Learn how the Division of Marine Fisheries\u2019 reef program has been building, enhancing, and monitoring more than 70 artificial reefs in coastal North Carolina for over 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Hendrix, Artificial Reef Program Biologist, Habitat and Enhancement Section, Division of Marine Fisheries, NC Department of Environmental Quality<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Live Presentation hosted by NC Museum of Natural Sciences\u2019 SECU Daily Planet Curator Chris Smith and the NC Department of Environmental Quality Office of Environmental Education and Public Affairs staff. Brought to you by the NC DEQ Office of Environmental Education and Public Affairs and the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe class=\"embed-responsive-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4q1TKtZ0zyI?si=M9UxotZ2_o11yez3\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us in-person in the SECU Daily Planet Theater or watch the livestream on YouTube Live. Join Artificial Reef Biologist Nick Hendrix on a \u201cdive\u201d into the North Carolina Artificial Reef Program. Learn how the Division of Marine Fisheries\u2019 reef program has been building, enhancing, and monitoring more than 70 artificial reefs in coastal North&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/lunchtime-discovery-a-dive-into-our-local-artificial-reefs\/\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[3,13,6,14,7,15,170,8,173],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/114292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/114292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114292"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=114292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}