As principal instructors for the Woods Hole Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program in 1968—the topic was “general circulation of the ocean”—physical oceanographers Henry Stommel (left) and Lou Howard hopped onto a turntable in the basement of Walsh Cottage to demonstrate the effect of rotation on seawater.
(Photo courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Archives)
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