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Gravity of the Situation

December 11, 2017

Gravity waves are undulations at the interface between two fluids of different density (fresh and salty water, or warm and cool air, for example). WHOI acoustical scientist Andone Lavery captured this photo of the research vessel Neil Armstrong confronting the atmospheric equivalent of the phenomenon she and the other scientists on board were trying to observe in the ocean: the front where water from the Connecticut River meets water from Long Island Sound. Lavery was recently named the recipient of the Walter Munk Award for Distinguished Research in Oceanography Related to Sound and the Sea, in the year that that famed oceanographer celebrated his 100th birthday. (Photo by Andone Lavery, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)