{"id":734,"date":"2026-01-15T18:53:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T22:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/?p=734"},"modified":"2026-03-09T18:59:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:59:33","slug":"melissa-interviewed-regarding-recent-findings-on-sea-star-wasting-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/2026\/01\/15\/melissa-interviewed-regarding-recent-findings-on-sea-star-wasting-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa interviewed regarding recent findings on Sea Star Wasting Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/files\/2026\/03\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/files\/2026\/03\/image-1024x575.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/files\/2026\/03\/image-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/files\/2026\/03\/image-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/files\/2026\/03\/image-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/files\/2026\/03\/image.png 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Healthy ochre sea stars on Vancouver Island, Canada.\u00a0Jeff Rotman \/ Alamy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Melissa sat down with journalist Nicola Jones for her Yale Environment 360 for <a href=\"https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/features\/sea-star-wasting-disease\">her piece on the latest research on Sea Star Wasting Disease<\/a>. We discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41559-025-02797-2.epdf?sharing_token=jatUZvnnFWBKUul0nyjHk9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MN6uoMvcHRlqg64KEGE_zoMs7_kLhZS42-95yelX_8jv-0mzX7EVSBIgWmbX5Es4xmhkpHCVA5oReyf0G9lmkOmpXOOFp-wubK0x2Z9H7r5kLwhVltdlwejTJmKz1Zqm0%3D\">the recent publication<\/a> led by <a href=\"https:\/\/gehmana.weebly.com\/\">Dr. Alyssa Gehman<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/hakai.org\/\">Hakai Institute<\/a> to which PhD candidate in the lab, Andrew McCracken, contributed during his QuEST internship! Nice work, Andrew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa sat down with journalist Nicola Jones for her Yale Environment 360 for her piece on the latest research on Sea Star Wasting Disease. We discussed the recent publication led by Dr. Alyssa Gehman of the Hakai Institute to which PhD candidate in the lab, Andrew McCracken, contributed during his QuEST internship! Nice work, Andrew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mpespeni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}