{"id":206891,"date":"2018-06-18T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T14:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/?p=206891"},"modified":"2021-02-12T16:10:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T21:10:55","slug":"warning-issued-for-clinging-jellyfish-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/2018\/06\/18\/warning-issued-for-clinging-jellyfish-in-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials Issue Warning For Clinging Jellyfish In New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The clinging jellyfish was first confirmed in New Jersey in 2016 in the Manasquan River at the Point Pleasant Canal. The DEP has been working with ÐÇ¿ÕÎÞÏÞ´«Ã½ University in studying the possible distribution of clinging jellyfish in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Montclair researchers this week confirmed the presence of about 15 clinging jellyfish of varying sizes off a private dock in the Metedeconk. Genetic testing is being conducted for final verification.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We don\u2019t know how long they\u2019ve been here. They might have been here for decades and nobody\u2019s actually seen them. They\u2019re very, very small \u2013 size of a dime, size of a quarter is about as big as they get \u2013 but they\u2019ll put you in the hospital.<\/p>\n<footer><cite>Dr. Paul Bologna, director of marine biology<\/cite><\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2018\/06\/13\/stinging-jellyfish-in-new-jersey-river\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more and watch the segment on the CBS website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS features Dr. Paul Bologna, Director of the Marine Biology and Coastal Sciences Program, as the clinging jellyfish issue continues in NJ waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-biology-coastal-sciences","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207319,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206891\/revisions\/207319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}