Posts by Hanny Rivera
We’ll be back next week!
Sometimes writing is exhausting. We’re taking a short break this week. We’ll be back next Monday, September 18. We want to take a moment to remember all of those affected during the September 11, 2001 tragedies. Our hearts also go out to Florida and the Caribbean islands impacted by Hurricane Irma this past weekend.
Read MoreUnraveling earth’s natural time capsules – The GeoChronR workshop
By Lizzie Wallace The Arizona Shuttle rolls up to Flagstaff, Arizona, quite a different scene from the miles and miles of barren desert I’ve been riding through on my travel from the Phoenix Skyharbor International Airport to Northern Arizona University (NAU). At 7000 ft, Flagstaff is a cool 70 degrees surrounded by trees, mountains and…
Read MoreA day in the life in St. John, USVI: Harvesting larval reef fish and coral reef seawater microbes
Written By: Laura Weber About the author: Laura Weber is a PhD candidate in Biological Oceanography in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (MIT-WHOI) Joint program. She is a member of the Apprill lab at WHOI and studies microbial (bacteria and archaea) interactions in coral reef ecosystems to get a better…
Read MoreDay in the life blog series – What’s it’s really like to be a Ph.D. Student
Graduate students can be somewhat mysterious creatures, haunting labs in the wee hours of the night, or disappearing for months on end to venture to some faraway place, collecting data and samples of critters that they’ll struggle to pronounce after a few days of sleep-deprived night watches aboard a ship. There are no graduate student…
Read MoreA glider’s journey in the Gulf Stream
Written by Joleen Heiderich We are cruising towards the open ocean in a small towboat while the Miami skyline is shrinking in the distance behind us. For Captain Pete, this short trip will be a change from his daily routine. Instead of towing boats, he will help two scientists with the deployment of an instrument…
Read MoreIntroducing the new JP-student blog!
You probably want to start your own blog and share all your adventures, breakthroughs, mishaps, and sometimes sheer frustration with the world, right? Yet, the thought of setting up a website, having to fight with yet another computer language, and be witty and charming on semi-regular basis on top of all your research duties pretty…
Read MoreBIG Summer Planning Meeting
On Thursday, July 20, 2017, we held a productive meeting in the JP student lounge to discuss some of the ideas and projects BIG has in their pipeline. We would love to have you join in and help! Below are a few of the projects that could use more hands: Blog Managers/Editors: …
Read MoreScientist’s Dilemma Lunch Series
July 21st, 2017 12:00-1:00 pm – Watson 201; ongoing thereafter JP Student, Julia Middleton, and WHOI scientist Liz Kujawinski have organized a new lunch discussion series focusing on scientific ethics and other challenges facing scientists in our modern world. The first meeting on Scientific Communication and Advocacy will be on July 21, 2017. Hanny Rivera,…
Read MoreOceanos: WHOI en Español e Português
September 16, 2017 – 2:00-4:00 pm – Clark 507 Come experience science in a whole new language. JP student, Gabriela Farfan, and WHOI researcher, Luis Valentin-Alvarado, have organized Oceanos, a new event at WHOI that seeks to make the research being done at WHOI accessible to members of the local Cape Cod community (and visitors) who speak Spanish…
Read MoreDesign for Non-Designers Workshop
The Broader Impacts Group at MIT-WHOI and Academic Programs Office at WHOI are sponsoring an event on March 29th at 12-1:30 pm in Clark 507 on WHOI’s Quissett Campus called: Design for Non-Designers. This workshop will be led by Katherine Spencer Joyce, Creative Director of WHOI Graphic Services. There is an ever-growing number at WHOI people attempting to design…
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