Events & Reunions
Tufts Senior Connection - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Outing - SOLD OUT
Sponsored by:
Tufts Senior Connection and Tufts Alumni Cape Cod
Location:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA | See Map
When: Saturday, September 11, 2010, 8:29 am - 3:14 pm (iCal)
Description
Tufts Senior Connection is a new alumni organization focused on keeping “seasoned” alumni engaged together in social and cultural activities with each other and the University throughout their lives.
Please join us for an outing to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The trip will include optional round-trip bus transportation from Tufts to Woods Hole, a lecture on general ocean science, followed by lunch at the Landfall Restaurant, and a tour of the Woods Hole facility after lunch. The schedule is as follows:
8:30 am
Bus travelers arrive at Dowling Hall, 419 Boston Avenue, Medford, MA (free parking in the Dowling Hall Garage)
8:45 am
Bus leaves Medford
10:30 am
Arrive in Woods Hole
11:00 am
Lecture featuring Dr. Jack Whitehead, E63, J01P: "Understanding and Charting Ocean Circulation--History and Modern Advances"
12:30 pm
Buffet Luncheon at the Landfall Restaurant
1:45-3 pm
Tour of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
3:15 pm
Bus leaves Woods Hole
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Jack Whitehead, E63, J01P
Dr. Whitehead has worked at WHOI since 1971. He received his B.S degree in mechanical engineering from Tufts University in 1963, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University in 1965 and 1968, respectively, in Engineering/Applied Science. He worked as a research geophysicist at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1968 to 1971, when he joined the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution staff as an assistant scientist. He was promoted to Associate Scientist in 1973, and was named a Senior Scientist in 1988. His research interests focus on the physics of continuous media and laboratory and theoretical modeling of geophysical flows, especially buoyancy-driven flows in the ocean and in the earth. In 2007 he became Scientist Emertius.
RSVP
This event is SOLD OUT.
Contact
If you have questions, please contact Karen Micale at karen.micale@tufts.edu, 617-627-3526 in the Office of Alumni Relations We look forward to seeing you on September 11th. It should be a fun and interesting day and an opportunity to connect with fellow alumni!
