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Stephanie Waterman holding her "beta boat" in GFD lab.

Stephanie Waterman holding her "beta boat" in GFD lab.
Stephanie Waterman holding her "beta boat" in GFD lab.
Stephanie Waterman holding her "beta boat" in GFD lab.
Stephanie Waterman holding her "beta boat" in GFD lab.
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Stephanie Waterman holding her "beta boat" in GFD lab.
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06/17/2008
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MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Stephanie Waterman holds the "beta boat," a unique instrument she built with physical oceanographer John Whitehead and engineer Keith Bradley for her experiments on how ocean currents may form. Essentially a free-floating plunger, the "boat's" motor drives a disc up and down, generating waves in a rotating tank that mimics Earth's ocean. Waterman did her experiments in the geophysical fluid dynamics laboratory at WHOI, which boasts a long history of studying theoretical aspects of ocean motion.
Photo by Tom Kleindinst
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