Field work was one of the aspects to my grad program that I was the most excited about, and here we are! I’d participated remotely on a cruise my work was being tested on last year, but it’s not quite the same as being there in person. [Read More]

This was my first backpacking trip, my first time visiting Maine, and my first overnight trip on Mashnee! It was a fantastic break from the day-to-day work. I took a bus from Boston up to Camden, where Mashnee was moored. Over the next couple of days we sailed around Penobscot... [Read More]

First-year students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program typically go on a 10-day cruise aboard the Cramer (the sister ship to the Seamans!) to get to know their cohort while getting some hands-on experience with common oceanographic sampling equipment. Unfortunately, COVID was still causing logistics issues when I enrolled in the... [Read More]