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One Beach, Two Continents

July 11, 2016

WHOI offers students a unique Geodynamics Program that fosters interdisciplinary research among faculty, Joint Program students and postdoctoral fellows. Each year a different theme is the focus of a seminar series and a study tour to a related geologic location. The 2016 theme was ice-ocean interaction, and students and faculty went to Iceland to view glacier-ocean interactions. A bonus: Seeing where the Mid-Atlantic Ridge emerges from the sea on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula. Standing here, the Eurasian tectonic plate is on your left, the North American plate on your right. (Photo by Julie van der Hoop, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)