{"id":4626,"date":"2025-08-08T08:30:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/?p=4626"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:05:06","slug":"environmental-science-student-finds-purpose-and-perspective-in-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/2025\/08\/08\/environmental-science-student-finds-purpose-and-perspective-in-costa-rica\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Science student finds purpose and perspective in Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental Science minor Maggie Dickerson was one of fourteen students who took part in Marshall\u2019s Tropical Biology and Conservation Field Course, offered by the Department of Biological Sciences with Biology instructor Kimberly Dingess. Over two weeks in June, students explored some of the world\u2019s most bio-diverse ecosystems in Costa Rica. Maggie and her experience was recently a subject on Marshall Moments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/moments\/2025\/08\/07\/maggie-dickerson-finds-purpose-and-perspective-in-costa-rica\/\">Read the full article on Marshall Moments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental Science minor Maggie Dickerson was one of fourteen students who took part in Marshall\u2019s Tropical Biology and Conservation Field Course, offered by the Department of Biological Sciences with Biology instructor Kimberly Dingess. Over two weeks in June, students explored some of the world\u2019s most bio-diverse ecosystems in Costa Rica. Maggie and her experience was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":4627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-science-abstracts"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/files\/es-costa-rica-dickerson.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4629,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626\/revisions\/4629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}