{"id":269877,"date":"2026-05-13T20:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269877\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:10:06","slug":"fundraiser-planned-for-usfs-fire-damaged-marine-science-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269877\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraiser planned for USF\u2019s fire-damaged marine science building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 13, 2026 &#8211; St. Petersburg City Councilmember Gina Driscoll and the St. Pete Innovation District will host an \u201cOcean of Support\u201d fundraiser May 15 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Maritime and Defense Technology Hub, 450 Eighth Ave. SE, benefiting the University of South Florida College of Marine Science and the Florida Institute of Oceanography after a recent fire. Organizers said the free event will support recovery efforts and future operations for the marine science institutions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 13, 2026 &#8211; St. Petersburg City Councilmember Gina Driscoll and the St. Pete Innovation District will host&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-269877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}