Stopping By Woods Hole on a Snowy Evening

WHOI biologists Heidi Sosik and Melissa Patrician pause for a picture in the midst of unloading their gear from a survey cruise on the research vessel Tioga to the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory. The filtering cups normally used to collect samples from the phytoplankton communities in the waters off Martha’s Vineyard are filling with snow instead. (Samuel Laney, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)