WHOI's 2014 Summer Student Fellows prepare to head out on the R/V Tioga for some hands-on oceanography in Buzzards Bay this summer. Now in its 55th year, this 10-to-12-week undergraduate program accepts applications from rising seniors interested in a career in ocean science.  (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Maneuvering amid ice ranging from chunks to icebergs, MIT-WHOI graduate student Rebecca Jackson and Dave Sutherland of the University of Oregon conduct operations in the Sermilik Fjord on the east coast of Greenland. The research team, led by WHOI oceanographer Fiamma Straneo, are investigating the accelerating flow of glaciers into the ocean. The team installed moorings in the fjord in Greenland to measure the temperature and velocities of currents moving from the open ocean to the Helheim Glacier, which empties into the fjord. They showed that warming ocean waters may be reaching the terminus of the glacier, increasing melting, and allowing the glacier to flow faster. (Photo by Fiamma Straneo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Elizabeth Halliday spent the summer at the beach, but she wasn't swimming or sunbathing. Instead, the MIT/WHOI Joint Program student used her summer vacation to study the causes of bacterial-induced beach closures in Provincetown. (Photo by Ken Kostel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

A group of new graduate students in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program try on emergency survival suits, also called Gumby suits, during the 2010 Jake Peirson Summer Cruise. Each year, the 10-day cruise in the North Atlantic aboard one of the sailing vessels operated by Sea Education Association welcomes students to the world of oceanography and also helps them bond with the classmates with whom they will study, work alongside, and commiserate for the next four to six years. (Photo courtesy of Melissa Moulton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

In 2009 a research team camped on about six feet of ice overlying the McMurdo Sound while conducting a proteomic (study of proteins) and genomic (study of genes) phytoplankton survey. Here, MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Abigail Noble drills a sea-ice core for trace metal and proteomic analyses of sea ice diatoms in front of Tent Island in the sound. (Photo courtesy of Mak Saito, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

In an MIT/WHOI Joint Program class in Marine Chemistry—also being linked by videoconference to students at MIT, WHOI Senior Scientist Scott Doney discusses the chemical composition of seawater and how it varies geographically and with time. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)