High Honor

WHOI President and Director Mark Abbott presented the 2015 Bostwick H. Ketchum Award to Candace Oviatt, a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, during a lecture and reception on October 14, 2015. Oviatt is a well-respected expert in the study of coastal ecosystems whose work spans nearly five decades.(Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)