All Work and No Play Makes for a Dull Oceanographer
Written by: Jennifer Kenyon People have very different definitions of the word “cruise.” The non-oceanographer imagines a large cruise ship with water slides, a happy hour, cute beverages with little umbrellas in them, and a journey that takes 5-7 days before dropping you off in a tropical paradise without a care in the world.…
Read MoreChildren, your greatest [carbon] legacy
Written by: EeShan Bhatt “Minus one” I look towards my partner and direct her attention to some news coverage on the recent IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report. It details that the world has already warmed one degree Celsius relative to temperatures before the Industrial Revolution, and significant action is needed in the next…
Read MoreTiny Tea Returns! Topic: Implicit Bias
The Workplace Climate Committee, Women’s Committee and the Broader Impacts Group are hosting another Tiny Tea discussion on Wednesday, May 16, 2018 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. in Clark 507. The topic will be Implicit Bias. For background on the topic we encourage you to read this short article and/or watch this short video. If you have specific examples of implicit bias that you…
Read MoreAlan 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…
Read MoreThe erstwhile king of Siluria
A planet shrinking over a few thousand years, wrinkling like an apple. Vast underground caverns filled with seawater that rises to the surface to form oceans. Volcanic eruptions powered by coal beds. All of those sound like ridiculous ideas in this day and age, but just a few hundred years ago, they represented some of…
Read MoreDiving in the wake of a hurricane
Written by: Genevieve Flaspohler About the author: Genevieve Flaspohler is a PhD student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the MIT-WHOI Joint program. She is a member of the WHOI Autonomous Robotics and Perception Laboratory (WARPLab) and researches machine learning and computer vision algorithms for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). She is especially interested in…
Read MoreA brief history of the Wide Receiver Functions
Back in 2015, when my cousin set up a fantasy football league for my extended family, I named my first (and only) fantasy football team the “Wide Receiver Functions.” At the time I thought this was rather funny, but I was the only seismologist in the league, so instead of laughter I got confusion. Wide…
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