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Spring at the Beach

Research specialist Stace Beaulieu points to the location of worm burrows on the bottom of a tide pool during an early spring field trip as part of the Biological Oceanography course offered by the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. Beaulieu and WHOI senior scientist Lauren Mullineaux, co-instructors for the course, study marine invertebrates and life on the seafloor, including at hydrothermal vents. From left to right, Beaulieu, guest investigator Ping Zuo, Mullineaux, students Deepa Rao, Sebastian Essink, and Jesse McNichol, and research specialist Annette Frese Govindarajan.(Photo by Ken Kostel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)