Images: A Summer of Science by the Sea, 2014 (Part I)
The 2014 Summer Student Fellows hailed from Canada, China, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Trinidad, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Front row (l-r): Joleen Heiderich, Elena Perry, Mara Freilich, Maria Ordovas-Montanes, Alexis Wood, Gaby De La Cruz Tello, Samantha Emmert. Middle row: Robert Forney, Amber Emerson, Jessica Sandoval, Caterina Brighi, Lily Helfrich, Manny Hernandez, Maya Becker, Helena Pryer, Doriane Weiler, Emily Chua, Billy Shinevar. Back row: Wenzhong Wang, Andre Price, Jennifer Frame, Jim Stylinski, Ian Jones, Will Oestreich, Jacob Forsyth, Filip Buksa, Sam Kastner, Ernest Quintana, Cailan Sugano, Karter Harmon. Not pictured: Mary Munro, Jennifer Karolewski. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
One of the highlights of the Summer Student Fellowship program is a day trip on the WHOI research vessel Tioga to gain a little hands-on experience with sampling and navigation equipment. Here, Fellows Helena Pryer and Caterina Brighi enjoy the view as Tioga pulls away from the WHOI dock. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Summer Student Fellows Maya Becker and Jacob Forsyth and instructor Hovey Clifford consult a field guide to identify sediment animals collected during a short cruise on Buzzards Bay aboard the WHOI research vessel Tioga. Clifford is one of four WHOI employees and retirees who join the cruise each summer "to give the students a flavor of what is involved in planning, preparing, and eventually going to sea to obtain samples for research." (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Volunteer Hovey Clifford (left) watches as Summer Student Fellows Filip Buksa and Caterina Brighi prepare a "clamshell" sediment sampler for deployment. When the sampler reaches the seafloor, its jaws close shut to grab a load of sediment. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Jim Doutt, a research associate at WHOI, instructed the Summer Student Fellows in the use of a CTD, which measures temperature, depth, and conductivity (which correlates with salinity) of the water. Visible at right are Niskin bottles, part of a CTD "rosette" used to capture samples of water at various depths. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Long-time WHOI research associate Bruce Tripp, now retired, instructs Summer Student Fellows Maya Becker and Sam Kastner in the preparation of Niskin bottles, water-sampling instruments they later deployed over the side of R/V Tioga. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Emeritus oceanographer George Hampson showed the Summer Student Fellows how to measure the amount of oxygen in a water sample using the Winkler technique, which was developed more than 100 years ago and which played a crucial role in determining oxygen levels in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Ian Hanley, first mate of WHOI research vessel Tioga, showed Summer Student Fellow Caterina Brighi how to use a sextant to determine the boat's position. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Taking a bow at the bow: Summer Student Fellows Sam Kastner, Jacob Forsyth, Lily Helfrich, Filip Buksa, Caterina Brighi, Maya Becker, Helena Pryer, and Billy Shinevar. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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