In the Palm of Her Hand

On a windy April day, Joint Program student Lei Ma (center) shows a tiny hermit crab to fellow students Kevin Archibald and Chrissy Hernandez (right) and instructor Lauren Mullineaux (left), during a field trip to study life in the intertidal region—the area between high and low tides—at a local rocky beach. The trip was part of the Biological Oceanography class led by WHOI biologists Mullineaux and Ann Tarrant (not pictured). (Photo by Ann Tarrant, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)