Partners in Science

Cape Abilities project manager Trevor Harrison (right) works with Carol Dimock in WHOI scientist Rob Evans’ lab. Evans is partnering with Cape Abilities, an organization that supports people with disabilities on Cape Cod, to manufacture electrodes for oceanographic instruments that measure naturally-occurring electric and magnetic fields to provide data on the structure deep within the earth. The new instruments will be deployed across the Cascadia subduction system—a 680-mile fault off the U.S. Pacific Northwest coast where geologic conditions are similar to those in Japan that triggered the March 2011 earthquake. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)