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Education at Sea

The WHOI Summer Student Fellowship (SSF) program and the Woods Hole Partnership Education Program (PEP) bring undergraduates to WHOI each summer to learn more about ocean science through seminars, field trips, independent research projects, and a day-at-sea experience. Left to right, SSFs Walter Hutcheson (New York University), Chloe Wang (Haverford College), Rebecka Bence (Washington State University), and Alyssa Soucy (UMass Lowell), along with PEP student Alexander Linares (Barry University) examine a container teeming with zooplankton, larvae, and microscopic sea life from Buzzards Bay during the annual trip aboard WHOI’s coastal research vessel Tioga.(Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)