Getting to the Core

Nathaniel Cresswell-Clay (left) and Katelyn Rainville, two students in the Semester at WHOI (SAW) program, learn about using a gravity corer, a basic piece of oceanographic equipment used to sample sediment layers at the bottom of lakes or oceans. The hands-on lesson was part of an Elements of Modern Oceanography class aboard the coastal research vessel Tioga. The SAW program gives undergraduates an opportunity to take graduate-level ocean science courses and immerse themselves in a semester-long independent research project, working with scientists and in labs at WHOI. Cresswell-Clay came from Tufts University; Rainville came from Mount Holyoke College. Applications are open for the fall 2018 Semester at WHOI. (Photo by Matthew Barton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)