{"id":515,"date":"2013-07-11T13:50:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T03:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2013-07-11T13:58:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T03:58:23","slug":"news-splash-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/news-splash-update\/","title":{"rendered":"News Splash + Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been very pleased with a new &#8216;partnership&#8217; between myself\/Frogging Around and the Online Editor of the Sunshine Valley Gazette, with the online publication of an article introducing our local frogs, and a series of &#8216;frog profiles&#8217; beginning later in the once the weather warms up.<!--more--> These profiles will feature a particular frog species each fortnight and will be made up of both &#8216;common&#8217; frogs and the threatened ones. The purpose is to publicise our local frogs and educate the public on ways of encouraging them into their yards.<\/p>\n<p>Hop onto <a title=\"Become a Froggie Friend\" href=\"http:\/\/svgazette.com.au\/home-life\/article\/become-a-froggie-friend\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/svgazette.com.au\/home-life\/article\/become-a-froggie-friend<\/a> to read the article.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend I had a great time helping at the QLD Frog Society&#8217;s frog display at the QLD Garden Expo. This is the third year we&#8217;ve been there and we&#8217;re always kept on our feet answering people&#8217;s questions and educating them on frogs and cane toads.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-521\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/frog_tent_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-521\" alt=\"Neat crowd outside the QFS tent, and that was one the morning of Day 1 of 3.\" src=\"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/frog_tent_1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/frog_tent_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/frog_tent_1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neat crowd outside the QFS tent, and that was only the morning of Day 1 of 3.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-520\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/frog_tent_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-520\" alt=\"View from above: Lots of questions and queries which was excellent. Sold very reasonable amount of resources too which goes towards the Society and frog research.\" src=\"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/frog_tent_2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/frog_tent_2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/frog_tent_2-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View from above: Lots of questions and queries which was excellent. Sold very reasonable amount of resources too which goes towards the Society and frog research.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Onto the Honours Project side of things, I was in the USC Analytical Water Lab a few weeks ago analysing water samples I collected out in the field. Also began preliminary data analysis with a few interesting graphs to explore further on.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-519\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/working_lab.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-519\" alt=\"Looking like a stereotypical scientist\" src=\"http:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/working_lab.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/working_lab.jpg 600w, https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/working_lab-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking like a stereotypical scientist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been very pleased with a new &#8216;partnership&#8217; between myself\/Frogging Around and the Online Editor of the Sunshine Valley Gazette,[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,58,33,57,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froggingaround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}