{"669716":{"#nid":"669716","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Mystery shell on Ocracoke beach","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELynn Ingram writes that she thought she\u0027d found the state seashell of North Carolina, a Scotch bonnet, on one of the state\u0027s beaches. But she soon discovered that the shell was a species of sea snail that is only found in the Pacific Ocean. How did it end up in the Atlantic? \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joseph-montoya\u0022\u003EJoseph Montoya\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E who is also director of Georgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ocean.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EOcean Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E program, says one possibility involves ballast tanks of oceangoing ships; sometimes these shells start as larvae living in plankton that may have been caught up in a ship\u0027s ballast water.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELynn Ingram writes that she thought she\u0027d found the state seashell of North Carolina, a Scotch bonnet, on one of the state\u0027s beaches. But she soon discovered that the shell was a species of sea snail that is only found in the Pacific Ocean. How did it end up in the Atlantic? \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joseph-montoya\u0022\u003EJoseph Montoya\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E who is also director of Georgia Tech\u0027s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ocean.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EOcean Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E program, says one possibility involves ballast tanks of oceangoing ships; sometimes these shells start as larvae living in plankton that may have been caught up in a ship\u0027s ballast water.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-09-18 13:59:15","changed_gmt":"2023-09-18 13:59:15","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Okracoke Observer","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/ocracokeobserver.com\/2023\/09\/17\/mystery-shell-on-ocracoke-beach\/","dateline":{"date":"2023-09-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-09-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"188230","name":"Ocean Science and Engineering (OSE)"},{"id":"28871","name":"Joseph Montoya"},{"id":"169692","name":"snail"},{"id":"193046","name":"seashells"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}