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You never want to see a sign like this on a beach, especially right before the traditional Memorial Day start of summer. The waters off beaches are regularly tested to…

WHOI biologist Rebecca Gast steadies a coring tube as Bill Boyd, a senior engineer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, drives it into the sand at Duck, North Carolina, while WHOI…

Does sand moving on the beach carry bacteria with it? To find out, WHOI scientists Rebecca Gast, Britt Raubenheimer, and Steve Elgar cored three sections of a beach at Duck,…

Elizabeth Halliday, a student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, attaches a winch collar to a coring tube so the tube can be pulled out of the sand. Each…

WHOI microbial ecologist Rebecca Gast checks the distances between sample sites on the beach at Duck, N.C., as research associate Levi Gorrell places a coring tube and physical oceanographer Britt…

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…