WHOI Graduation

Biology faculty at the 2015 WHOI Commencement

Greetings everyone!  Every 5 years, the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering hosts a graduation ceremony at WHOI for all students who have graduated that year, and in the years since the last Woods Hole commencement.  We had a great turnout this year with 36 students participating in the ceremony, along with faculty from WHOI and MIT.  Congratulations and best wishes for the next phase of your education journeys!

This year's Biological Oceanography PhD Recipients were:

Amalia Aruda Almada 2015

Santiago Herrera Monroy 2015

Kristen Rachel Hunter-Cevera 2014 

September 2010 - June 2014 Degree Recipients:

Master of Science:

Skylar Bayer 2010

Abigail J. Heithoff 2011

Kevin Richberg 2010

Doctor of Philosophy:

Ann N. Allen 2013                            Jamie W. Becker 2013

Michael L. Brosnahan 2011              Joanna Gyory 2011

Elizabeth Halliday 2012                    Li Ling Hamady 2014

Anne Kathryn M. Kauffman 2014    Kelton W. McMahon 2011

Colleen M. Petrik 2011                     Christine Thompson 2011

Meredith M. White 2013                  Louie Wurch 2011

Maya Yamato 2012

There were also several awards announced at the ceremony.

The 2015 Arnold B. Arons Award for Excellence in Teaching, Advising, and Mentoring was awarded to Dr. Heidi Sosik (Biological Oceanography) and Dr. William Jenkins (Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry).

Dr. Kristen Hunter-Cevera was awarded the Ruth and Paul Fye Award for the best graduate student paper in Biological Oceanography from 2010-2015 (http://www.pnas.org/content/111/27/9852.abstract).

Julie van der Hoop received the Ruth and Paul Fye award for best student Interdisciplinary paper.

Her paper is here:  http://jeb.biologists.org/content/217/23/4229.long

 

Students Camrin Braun and Megan May were recipients of the Grassle Fellowship

Please join me in congratulating our students, advisors and award winnners!