Studying ocean flow, from Rome to WHOI

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)