2010 Photo Highlights : 2010 Annual Report

1. Guest Student Alessandro Ramoni conducts a "fjord experiment" in WHOI's geophysical fluid dynamics laboratory. Ramoni, from the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", worked with WHOI scientists Claudia Cenedese and Fiammetta Straneo to study how seawater circulation in a deep fjord affects glacier melting rates. In the tank, clear and yellow-dyed water layers represent water in a fjord, and red lines of a dye solution show the direction and intensity of water flow. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

2. Graduate students in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program practice deploying a Spray glider. A Spray glider, a sensor-equipped autonomous underwater vehicle, was deployed to the Gulf of Mexico to gather data involving the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (Photo by Photo by Derya Akkaynak)

Research specialist Stace Beaulieu (at left), Summer Student Fellow Eric Rozell, and other students examine invertebrates they sieved from the sand and sediments in the tidal channel at Woodneck Beach on Cape Cod. Beaulieu and senior scientist Lauren Mullineaux offered the field trip this past June as a crash course in field identification of benthic creatures such as clams and polychaete worms. Mullineaux and Beaulieu study the ecology of marine invertebrates, particularly how species disperse and colonize remote habitats such as hydrothermal vents and seamounts.

(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

MIT/WHOI Joint Program student in Biology, Jamie Becker, (center with light blue shirt) discusses his research with guests at the recent Afternoon of Science, during the science poster reception under a tent on the Quissett Campus. The event is one of the opportunites for Associates to learn more about WHOI science. Annually, WHOI Associates are invited to on-campus events featuring thought-provoking lectures, poster sessions, and informal social gatherings. The 2010 program featured an update on WHOI's involvement in the Guf oil spill and a talk about research on corals.

(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Participants in the 2010 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (GFD) program gather on the Walsh Cottage porch for a group photo. The GFD Program, which began in 1959 at WHOI, is an intensive ten-week summer fellowship that brings together researchers from all over the world to debate how water and other fluids move in the ocean, on planets and stars, and in the atmosphere. Learn more about the program in the audio slideshow, “The Ultimate Fluid Environment for Scientists.”

(Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

6. Domenico Mussardo, a guest student from the University of Rome "La Sapienza", spent spring 2010 at WHOI working with Claudia Cenedese, who studies ocean currents with laboratory experiments using tanks mounted on specially constructed rotating tables that simulate Earth's rotation. Here he sets up an experiment in the geophysical fluid dynamics laboratory, using dyed water for visibiity. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

7. 2010 WHOI Summer Student Fellows Jacob Izraelevitz and Isabella Arzeno deploy a water sampling bottle from R/V Tioga during the annual expedition on which Student Fellows learn oceanographic sampling and imaging techniques. Jacob attends Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering and his sponsor at WHOI is James Kinsey of the Department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering and the Deep Submergence Laboratory. Isabella attends Stanford University and her sponsor is Ken Brink of the Department of Physical Oceanography. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

8. At Cape Cod’s Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, 2010 Summer Student Fellow Cristin Luttazi records data as WHOI associate scientist Ann Mulligan (in the water) measures water level, temperature, and salinity. The researchers were taking independent measurements to compare with those taken by a new sensor developed in collaboration with Alan Gardner of WHOI and colleagues at MIT in order to verify that it was working as intended. The new sensor was designed to help study groundwater-seawater exchange and can operate for six months at a time, even in winter, to collect data every 10 to 15 minutes—something impossible to do by hand. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

9. Students, scientists, and organizers—including Ambrose Jearld (far left, Northeast Fisheries Science Center), George Liles (center, Woods Hole Aquarium), and Ben Gutierrez (third from right, USGS)—recently celebrated a summer of learning and research in the Partnership Education Program (PEP), developed by the Woods Hole Diversity Advisory Committee. The program encourages students from underrepresented groups to consider science careers and brings undergraduates together for coursework and research internships at six Woods Hole science and education institutions. This summer, eight PEP students worked with WHOI scientists Ken Foote, Scott Gallager, Porter Hoagland, Gareth Lawson, and Lauren Mullineaux. (Photo by Amy Caracappa-Qubeck, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

10. A group of new graduate students in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program try on emergency survival suits, also called "Gumby suits," during the 2010 Jake Peirson Summer Cruise. Each year, the 10-day cruise in the North Atlantic aboard one of the sailing vessels operated by Sea Education Association welcomes students to the world of oceanography and also helps them bond with the classmates with whom they will study, work alongside, and commiserate for the next four to six years. The annual cruise is named in honor of Jake Peirson, who worked at WHOI from 1967 to 1996 as Assistant Dean and Associate Dean/Registrar. From left to right: Kate French, Claire Bucholz, Scott Haven, Dan Amrhein, Melissa Moulton, Kyrstin Fornace, and Nicholas Macfarlane. (Photo courtesy of Melissa Moulton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

11. Elizabeth Halliday spent the summer at the beach, but she wasn't swimming or sunbathing. Instead, the MIT/WHOI Joint Program student used her summer vacation to study the causes of bacterial-induced beach closures in Provincetown. In 2009, there were more than 18,000 beach closings and advisories around the country. For three months, Halliday cultured bacteria that she found in the sand and water and monitored environmental conditions near Provincetown. This winter, she hopes to combine this data with molecular analyses of the bacteria to determine the origin of the micro-organisms as well as the conditions that cause them to multiply and shut down area beaches. (Photo by Ken Kostel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

12. In an MIT/WHOI Joint Program class in Marine Chemistry, WHOI Senior Scientist Scott Doney discusses the chemical composition of seawater and how it varies geographically and with time. The course also covers the influence of rivers, the atmosphere, sediments and the ocean crust on seawater chemistry and the internal chemical cycling within the sea as a result of marine life, ocean circulation and chemical reactions. The course is also taught by WHOI Associate Scientist Ben Van Mooy and is being linked by videoconference to students at MIT. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

13. Students graduating from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering march to the 2010 commencement ceremony on the WHOI Quissett Campus, while PhD recipient Jeff Standish pumps his arms in celebration. In addition to the annual MIT commencement, very five years WHOI hosts an official commencement for all who graduated from the acclaimed program during the previous period. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

14. MIT/WHOI Joint Program students (left to right) Scott Haven, Adam Trainer, Nicholas Macfarlane, Daniel Amrhein and Melissa Moulton retrieve a water sampler during the 2010 Jake Peirson Summer Cruise aboard the SSV Corwith Cramer. Each year, new students are introduced to oceanography on a 10-day cruise in the North Atlantic aboard one of the sailing vessels operated by Sea Education Association. The annual cruise is named in honor of Jake Peirson, who worked at WHOI from 1967 to 1996, serving as Assistant Dean and Associate Dean/Registrar. (Photo courtesy of Nicholas Macfarlane, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Last updated: June 8, 2011