{"id":43528,"date":"2017-02-13T14:02:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T18:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=43528"},"modified":"2017-02-13T17:35:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T21:35:01","slug":"brock-prof-to-speak-at-big-freeze-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/02\/brock-prof-to-speak-at-big-freeze-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock prof to speak at Big Freeze event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock University Earth Sciences Professor Francine McCarthy will be putting mastodons and their diet under the microscope during an upcoming presentation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McCarthy will be a guest speaker at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington on Feb. 19 as part of the Big Freeze exhibit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her talk, entitled Where\u2019s Dinner?, will examine the extinction of mastodons in response to postglacial vegetation change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McCarthy\u2019s presentation will begin at 1 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Big Freeze exhibit runs until April 17 and includes a series of speakers on a variety of topics. For more information, visit the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rbg.ca\/bigfreeze-specialguests\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Royal Botanical Gardens website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University Earth Sciences Professor Francine McCarthy will be putting mastodons and their diet under the microscope during an upcoming presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43533,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43528\/revisions\/43533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}