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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]