Up the River

Sylvia Cole, a postdoctoral investigator in the Physical Oceanography Department, deploys a temperature sensor in Trunk River in Falmouth, Mass., as an instructor in the Woods Hole Partnership Education Program (PEP). Sponsored by the Woods Hole Diversity Advisory Committee, which includes six local, science-based organizations, the program is designed to give students in their junior or senior year of college field experience in ocean science. The 2012 PEP course, “Ocean and Environmental Sciences: Global Climate Change,” consisted of lectures and hands-on activities in physical oceanography, chemistry, biology, geology and ecosystems management.(Photo by Donglai Gong,Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)