Archive for April 2018
Alan Alda Communicating Science Workshop comes to Woods Hole!
The Falmouth STEM Boosters, NSF, MBL, WHOI, SEA and The Woods Hole Research Center, have organized a workshop by the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science! This Thursday April 26, 2018! You can register here.
Read MoreOpen Access Science
Written by: Lauren Dykman “We believe in the power of research to improve the world. Sharing the fruits of research is a multiplier effect on that power of research. Open access is about increasing that multiplier, and much more.” These words by MIT Open Access Task Force undergraduate representative Herng Yi Cheng kicked off the…
Read MoreNavigating a sea of choices: SWMS Symposium
Written by: Christina Hernandez On Saturday, March 24, 2018, the campus of the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography (URI GSO) was host to approximately 150 scientists for a symposium of the Society for Women in Marine Science (SWMS). The symposium was titled “Navigating a sea of choices in marine science” and focused…
Read MorePerks and challenges of international fieldwork: A glider deployment in the Seychelles
When I started working on a project investigating the Gulf Stream, little did I know that one day my job would bring me to the Seychelles. I knew that most of my PhD work would be focused on the North Atlantic, so dreaming of a trip to these lush, remote little islands in the Indian…
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