Thin Yellow Line

Chief Scientist John Goff (center, in blue T-shirt and jeans) and other scientific staff deploy a Vibracorer off the research vessel Knorr in August 2007. Goff, a senior research scientist of the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics and a 1990 graduate of the MIT/WHOI Joint Program, was investigating how sediments were laid down over the last 50,000 years on the continental shelf off New Jersey. (Photo by Ben FrantzDale, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)