Thank You, Jim

WHOI President and Director Jim Luyten (center) accepts the best wishes and a gift of appreciation from the Institution’s trustees during a January 2008 meeting in New York City. Luyten is flanked by his son, Elijah (right) and Newt Merrill, chairman of the WHOI Board of Trustees as they examine a piece of glass-and-glycerine artwork commissioned to recognize Jim’s career as a physical oceanographer. Luyten will officially step down today as 8th director of the Institution, the culmination of 37 years on the scientific staff. (Photo by Matthew Barton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)