{"id":184,"date":"2020-07-02T22:46:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T02:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-index\/?page_id=184"},"modified":"2023-02-19T17:55:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T22:55:43","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-index\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-index\/files\/2023\/02\/IMG_7496-copy-223x300.png\" alt=\"Kris getting ready for travel.\" class=\"wp-image-257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-index\/files\/2023\/02\/IMG_7496-copy-223x300.png 223w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-index\/files\/2023\/02\/IMG_7496-copy.png 735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome! This website provides connections to the various projects and people with whom I have (or have had) the pleasure to work.<br \/>Feel free to explore the links in the sidebar. If you are a potential graduate student, you might be interested to visit the website of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-wesplab\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watershed, Education, Science and Policy Lab<\/a> that I lead. If you might be seeking scientific resources that can help you or others promote healthy ecosystems or become more resilient to climate change, you might check out the website for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/seagrant\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Lake Champlain Sea Grant<\/a> for which I serve as Associate Director and Extension Leader. If you are interested or engaged in volunteer water monitoring, you might choose to visit the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/volunteermonitoring.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Volunteer Water Monitoring Network<\/a> website to find a directory of and resources for initiatives in which members of the public are engaged in monitoring water resources. Hopefully, wherever you choose to go, you\u2019ll learn a few interesting things in your explorations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome! This website provides connections to the various projects and people with whom I have (or have had) the pleasure to work.Feel free to explore the links in the sidebar. If you are a potential graduate student, you might be interested to visit the website of the Watershed, Education, Science and Policy Lab that I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-index\/welcome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-184","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/184\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/kstepenu-index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}