A Helping Hand

Radio journalist Ed Ronco (seated) tries his hand at controlling the Nereus hybrid remotely operated vehicle’s manipulator arm while Andy Bowen (standing, right), director of the National Deep Submergence Facility, looks on. Ronco and a select group of journalist colleagues were at WHOI in September 2011 as part of the Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship program. The one-week program, established in 2000, introduces science journalists to the interdisciplinary and wide-ranging fields of oceanography and ocean engineering. The next program will be held from September 9 to 14, 2012. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)