{"id":97,"date":"2008-11-25T10:54:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T17:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2008-11-25T10:54:55","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T17:54:55","slug":"new-book-announcement-marine-mammals-autobiography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"New book announcement:  marine mammals autobiography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty Years of Flukes and Flippers;\u00c2\u00a0 a little history and personal adventures with dolphins, whales and sea lions (1958-2007) is an authobiography by William E. Evans.\u00c2\u00a0 I have had the pleasure of working with Dr. Evans from 1989 through 1999 in his tenure here at Texas A&amp;M University at Galveston.\u00c2\u00a0 This might be the icing on the cake of Dr. Evan&#8217;s illustrious career working with marine mammals, but you should see that in his own words as he recounts how he came from Elkhart, Indiana to a career with marine mammals that has taken him all over the world.\u00c2\u00a0 Along the way he helped to develop the Navy&#8217;s marine mammal programs, and was U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmospheres (head of NOAA).\u00c2\u00a0 His book is published by Pensoft, distributed in the U.S. by Coronet Books.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Natalie Wiest, Texas A&amp;M University at Galveston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty Years of Flukes and Flippers;\u00c2\u00a0 a little history and personal adventures with dolphins, whales and sea lions (1958-2007) is an authobiography by William E. Evans.\u00c2\u00a0 I have had the pleasure of working with Dr. Evans from 1989 through 1999 in his tenure here at Texas A&amp;M University at Galveston.\u00c2\u00a0 This might be the icing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamslic.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}