{"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 Montclair State 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}]}}