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Embarking on Cruise and Career

August 3, 2018

More than 400 MIT-WHOI Joint Program students just beginning their oceanographic careers have found their bearings aboard the Jake Peirson Summer Cruise, which began in 1990 as a rich introduction to conducting science at sea. Seventeen incoming first-year students sailed last month with Sea Education Association crew members aboard the Corwith Cramer, a 134-foot-long sailing school vessel. They tried their hands as crew members and oceanographers, learning about brigantines and bathymetry, tacks and trawls, points of sail and plankton nets, and more. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)